Sun Life Excitement
While making our morning Starbuck's we heard a lot of helicopter noise outside. I thought it was a herd of military planes going by, then stepped outside to see 2 police copters hovering over the park. We were going to walk the dogs and my first thought was...wow...maybe there is a criminal on the loose in the park!
Then the maintenance guy came by and said that a body had been found in the canal which is less than a block away and runs along the pathway where we walk the dogs. Of course people came out with all the noise and we went to check it out. Lots of police, spectators and planes! Later in the news online I saw that it was a man (later ID was an elderly white male) who was tied to "an object" and it has not been determined if foul play was involved. News helicopters hovered around the scene all morning.
Of course people in the park are conjecturing...some wife got mad at her hubby and tied him to a lawn chair so she could drag him to the canal! This is the stuff of mystery writers. I could just imagine Sue Grafton writing about Kinsey Milhoun working on this crime.
These canals are all over the place here and I'm told that irrigation water is regularly released into neighborhoods for people to use. The Hohokam Indians, in the 1100's designed the irrigation canals and some are still in use! Bet the Indians threw bodies in the canals too.