[HN Gopher] The Leg at the Bottom of the Sea
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The Leg at the Bottom of the Sea
Author : axiomdata316
Score : 13 points
Date : 2021-05-27 04:03 UTC (18 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (www.outsideonline.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (www.outsideonline.com)
| happytoexplain wrote:
| A prosthetic leg.
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| Also, this line from the subheading is kind of ridiculous:
|
| > How do you lose that in the ocean?
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| A prosthetic leg is pretty high on the list of things you might
| easily lose in the ocean. In this case, the owner had been
| surfing.
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| Nevertheless, cool article.
| bntyhntr wrote:
| I'd file it under things that initially sound ridiculous but
| make sense when you think about it. Which is fine by me, those
| are always interesting.
|
| It does remind me of shoes on the highway, which is more
| mundane than a limb but an ocean but turns out to have a
| variety of mundane to wacky answers.
| themanmaran wrote:
| TLDR:
|
| One guy goes treasure hunting in the Gulf of Mexico
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| Finds a prosthetic leg
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| Owner of the leg was an army vet / surfer
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| The leg was returned
| bombcar wrote:
| And they say if you return to that very spot on a moonless
| night and listen quite carefully - you will hear the silence of
| the leg at the bottom of the ocean to this very day.
| m463 wrote:
| > treasure hunting in the Gulf of Mexico
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| > army vet / surfer
|
| raised leg of nam
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