Saturday afternoon, my girlfriend and I went to Stow Lake in Golden Gate park in San Francisco and rented a rowboat. It was a pleasant ride, and we pretty much covered all of the lake going around the island checking out birds and turtles and the waterfall and such.
On Sunday, I read this article in the Chronicle
Body in lake is that of missing woman, 76
Chronicle Staff Report
The body of a 76-year-old San Francisco woman who was reported missing a week ago was found in Stow Lake in Golden Gate Park on Sunday morning.
The woman, identified by the San Francisco medical examiner’s office as Duk Park, had been reported missing from her home in the 1600 block of Irving Street on Oct. 23.
According to a missing person’s bulletin posted on the San Francisco Police Department’s Web site, Park was reported missing at 11 p.m. on Oct. 23. Family members told police that she had the beginning signs of Alzheimer’s and frequented Golden Gate Park.
A hiker spotted her body floating in Stow Lake about 8 a.m. Sunday morning, said Richard Vetterli, an investigator with the medical examiner’s office.
The cause of death has not yet been determined, he said.
I had a unicycle ride like that once. I went riding through our park (huge)…Around this one mountain that had a lookout spot. Later that day they said they found a mans body that fell off of the cliff and had landed below to his death. What if i would of found him? Scary.
So, Mike, how much dough did you get for dumping that poor old lady in the lake? I mean, c’mon, who in their right mind would want to go out into any open body of water in SF “for fun”?
The other week I was riding around a remote part of the Quantocks when I came across a man lying on the track. It immediately looked suspicious… he wasn’t dressed like a walker, had no walking accoutrements with him, and the spot he’d chosen didn’t look like the kind of place you’d normally lie down for a nap; a grassy track across a cold, windy, exposed hilltop.
After a brief moment of ponderance (I confess to thinking at one point that having to deal with a dead person would really put the knackers on the day’s ride) I approached him, and fortunately he was just asleep. He said he’d been drinking the night before; goodness knows how drunk you’d have to be to climb a few miles into the most desolate part of the hills, and he must have had a damned good Beer Jacket with it being late October, but that is another story.
If anything he seemed rather annoyed at having been woken up; I know if I were lying on the hills like that I wouldn’t mind somebody noticing in case I was in difficulty.
sorry for the late reply… just thought of a solution to this problem:
grab some candy from the vending machine. when the agents show up tell 'em halloween was yesterday, compliment their costumes, give 'em the candy anyways and tell them to “run along, now”.
and if it’ll make you feel better i’ll reimburse you for the candy costs.
