Story Archive

Running in Circles

Mark Warner, 49, of Green Bay, Wisc., was fishing in Forest County when his canoe flipped over. He managed to get it back up and gather up his belongings, except for one thing: his leg. The prosthetic leg was lost, and he went home without it. “I just thought it was gone,” Warner said. “I really didn’t expect to see it again.” So, he says, “it’s pretty bizarre where it ended up.” Two men on the same creek found it 20 days later, in a beaver dam. “I was sure we had found a dead body that someone dumped into the creek,” said Elliot Fuller. He brought the leg home and searched online, found Warner’s Craigslist “Lost” ad, and got it back to him. “I hope that if I lost my leg that someone would return it to me, too,” said Fuller’s buddy, Jason Franklin. Warner said he “wasn’t overly worried about it because I use my older model for fishing and hunting — it wasn’t my everyday leg, to put it that way.” (RC/Detroit Free Press) ...Still, the irony is that a good prosthetic leg costs an arm and a leg.