Imagine you’re paddling down the river when something catches your eye. At first, you aren’t sure what it is, but then you get close. You realize that what you’ve discovered is a leg inside a beaver dam. A prosthetic leg. The guys who discovered it could’ve left it there, but they took it upon themselves to track down the owner and return it to him.
Via The Weather Channel:
Two Wisconsin men came across a sight while canoeing last week that they say was one of the strangest experiences of their lives — finding a prosthetic leg sticking out of a beaver dam.
Elliott Fuller and Jason Franklin were paddling down a creek between Richardson Lake and Zarking Lake in Forest County when they came upon the unusual sight, the Wisconsin Journal Sentinel reported.
Fuller said they were convinced at first that it was part of a corpse until they got close enough to pull it out and realized it was a prosthetic leg.
Once the men returned to shore, they began a search online for someone who might be looking for the leg and stumbled upon a post on Craigslist that caught their eye.
Mark Warner, 49, of Green Bay said in his Craigslist post that he lost his prosthetic leg on a fishing trip after flipping his canoe in Range Line Lake in Wabeno.
“I wasn’t overly worried about it because I use my older model for fishing and hunting,” Warner said. “It wasn’t my everyday leg, to put it that way.”
Even though he wasn’t overly concerned with the loss, Warner’s friend convinced him to put an ad on Craigslist anyway.
“I just thought it was gone,” Warner said. “I really didn’t expect to see it again. On my end, it’s pretty amazing and it’s pretty bizarre where it ended up.”
The canoeists found the leg about three miles from where Warner had lost it.
Fuller and Franklin returned the leg to Warner on Friday and received a $50 reward for their good deed.
“Just did what I thought was right,” Franklin said. “I hope that if I lost my leg that someone would return it to me, too.”
