A Man Actually Lived to Tell the Tale After Going Missing at Lake Lanier
Lake Lanier, a seemingly innocuous reservoir in northern Georgia, has an alarmingly chilling past.
Published 10 months ago in Ftw
Lake Lanier, a seemingly innocuous reservoir in northern Georgia, has an alarmingly chilling past. Part of the lake used to be home to Oscarville, a small Black community in which a horrific lynching took place in 1912 that forced all 1,100 Black residents of Forsyth County to leave. If that weren’t enough, displaced cemeteries and unmarked graves had to be flooded during the reservoir’s creation, leading many to claim that the lake is haunted.
Despite the lake’s harrowing history, people continue to use it like they would any other lake, despite it clearly being a better idea to drain it, salt the earth and abandon it to the elements. In fact, one 20-year-old local somehow even lived to tell the tale after recently going missing on Lake Lanier.
Lake Lanier 3000-1 https://t.co/ayi5uIhNnq
— Murphy?? (@_sforsierra) July 9, 2024
Zachary Rutledge of Winder, Georgia, was reported missing by his friends after they lost track of him while swimming. At around 8:30 p.m., his friends were unsure whether he was still in the water or was on foot and contacted the authorities, who mounted a comprehensive search.
The Georgia Department of Natural Resources and Hall County Fire Rescue searched the water, while the Georgia State Patrol carried out aerial searches — all without any luck. Fortunately, Rutledge was discovered just before 9 a.m. the next morning by a Hall County Sheriff’s deputy. As it turns out, he’d swum from the shore to an island and later returned, only to find his friends had already left, forcing him to spend the night alone in a nearby park without a phone to call for help.
Authorities have taken the opportunity to emphasize safety tips to bear in mind when swimming in Lake Lanier, which include not swimming alone, communicating clearly and regularly with other swimmers and keeping track of everyone in your group.
“Not fucking around on flooded graveyards and lynching sites,” on the other hand, is an important safety tip that’s so obvious it goes without saying — or so you’d think.
Joey Chestnut Becomes This Generation’s Wilt Chamberlain After Eating 200 Boneless Wings in Under 38 Minutes
World champion competitive eater Joey Chestnut recently ticked another achievement off his bucket list, managing to put away 200 chicken wings in under 38 wings as part of a collaboration with Buffalo Wild Wings.
Published 10 months ago in Funny
World champion competitive eater Joey Chestnut recently ticked another achievement off his bucket list, managing to put away 200 chicken wings in under 38 wings as part of a collaboration with Buffalo Wild Wings.
I love that our generation has a Wilt picture now https://t.co/JHmYI9L0Mm
— ???????? Sickos Committee ???????? (@SickosCommittee) July 8, 2024
To commemorate the special occasion, Chestnut took a photo holding up a piece of paper with the number “200” written on it, leading people to call the photo “our generation’s Wilt picture,” a reference to the iconic photo of Wilt Chamberlain holding up a piece of paper with “100” written on it after he scored 100 points in a game in which the Philadelphia Warriors defeated the New York Knicks back in 1962.
hey @joeyjaws if you eat 200 boneless wings tomorrow at all you can eat, i’ll extend it to 8/14
— Buffalo Wild Wings (@BWWings) July 7, 2024
Buffalo Wild Wings publicly challenged Chestnut to eat 200 boneless wings in a tweet earlier this week. To which he responded, “Challenge accepted! 200 will be a record for generations!” Thanks to Chestnut successfully completing the challenge, Buffalo Wild Wings will be extending their All You Can Eat special until August 14th.
Chestnut is ranked first in the world by Major League Eating, and is perhaps most famous for his participation in the annual Nathan’s Hot Dog Eating Contest. In 2007, he defeated six-time champion Tsunami Kobayashi by chowing down on a record 66 hot dogs and buns in 12 minutes, and successfully defended the title until 2014, setting another record of 69 hot dogs in 2013.
After losing the contest in 2015, he won again in 2016 by eating 70 hot dogs, and held onto the title until last year; he set the current record in 2021 with 76 hot dogs. Tragically, he was banned from competing in the 2024 contest due to a conflict of interest as a result of his partnership with Impossible Foods.
But he hasn’t turned to chicken wings for good. Chestnut is set to compete against his old rival Kobayashi this September in a live-streamed Netflix event titled Chestnut vs Kobayashi: Unfinished Beef.
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