“It kept coming up and I’m like, ‘Oh my gosh!’” Krohn said. “I hope it’s not a dead body. We got it up and it was a prosthetic leg.” Pam Riley is from Morris, but she also has a lake home on Lake Ida. She lost her prosthetic leg three years ago while swimming. She never thought anyone would find it, but always laughed about “what if?”.
“What would anybody think when they see a part of a leg,” leg owner Pam Riley said. “They probably wondered where the rest of the body was.” After Beth caught the keeper that morning, she called a few places in Alexandria hoping to find its rightful owner. She ended up calling Advanced O and P in Alexandria; turns out she reeled in the leg right in the nick of time.
“We told (the receptionist) we found this prosthetic leg,” Krohn said. “She started laughing and said she was going to put me on hold. She said the lady who lost was there in the office and she wanted to talk to me.” Krohn and Riley met up later that day in the Walmart parking lot in Alexandria to exchange stories and body parts. Krohn said she will tell this story for years to come because even though her catch wasn’t one for the wall, she said it was definitely a keeper.
With news video.
4 comments:
Thats a prosthetic for a above knee amputee. From what I know about those legs they cost around €30,000 and upwards. Not something you'd want to lose.
Why would anyone go swimming with their prosthetic leg? Wouldn't it just be a hindrance? It won't float, and there's even the risk of losing it. There doesn't seem to be a flipper attachment on that leg, either.
The video refers to it as a "water leg," but it doesn't look like it's designed for swimming. Wading, maybe?
These things cost $30,000 and upwards!
Really?
Blimey, you wouldn't want to lose one of those.
Why are they so expensive?
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