Tuesday, July 26, 2011

"JUMPER - - -??" OR NOT - -


State Trooper #1285 meets with Lake Ozark FireBoat to review side scan sonar image

















This Tuesday afternoon around 2:00 p.m. a possible "Jumper" was reported on the Lake of the Ozarks Toll Bridge near the Porta-Cima side - -.  A motorist reported seeing a male subject jump off the bridge on the down stream (west) side close to Porta Cima.  They did not however; see if the "jumper" surfaced, made it to shore or was picked up by a boat - - ?  The "jump" part was fairly reliable, but afterwards was not - - a surface search by LAKE OZARK FD, Lake Ozark FireBoat#21, TOWBOATU.S. Point Young and TWO WATER PATROL OFFICERS turned up nothing.  Water Patrol commenced dragging operations in the area where the jumper may have landed, but the search was suspended pending further developments around 4:00 p.m. - -


ARTICLE IN LAKE NEWS ONLINE - HERE
"LAKE EXPO" article HERE




Water Patrol prepares to commence dragging operations

1 comment:

SpyderWeb said...

Why does the Water Patrol or ANYONE for that matter, waste time with people like this? Some dufuss wants to "off" himself? Ok, I say.