From: musketeer@swashbuckler.com   
      
   On 9 Jan 2008 10:48:54 -0500, Joseph Nebus wrote:   
      
   > Doug Elrod  writes:   
   >   
   >>On Jan 6, 8:01=A0pm, D'artagnan  wrote:   
   >   
   >>> RPI sounds like a cool place   
   >   
   >>Breezes off the Hudson, naturally!   
   >   
   > 	That and all the fresh slush brought down from Buffalo through   
   > the Erie Canal.   
   >   
   >   
   > 	Here's something useless that won't make your day: for most of   
   > its length, the Erie Canal was originally built to a depth of a mere   
   > four feet.  It's claimed in quite a few sources that the suicidally   
   > depressed would sometimes try jumping into the Canal with the intention   
   > of drowning and come away disgusted that there was barely enough water   
   > to get wet in it.   
      
   Video of a dog being rescued after jumping into the Old Erie Canal led me   
   to this video of a raccoon committing suicide (not gruesome--just   
   bizarro...).  I think this thread can die--oops!--after this...  :)   
      
   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rc_aYZPCNKQ&NR=1   
      
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