JetBoatRich
01-10-2005, 04:45 PM
I guess some people need o learn the hard way :mad:
TOPANGA -- Sheriff's deputies continued to search today for a Topanga man who apparently tried to swim across the rain-swollen Topanga Creek on a dare and was swept downstream by powerful currents.
Daniel Joshua McCutchen, 30, may have been intoxicated when friends dared him to swim across the "raging creek" along the 100 block of South Topanga Canyon Boulevard in the Fernwood area about 11:25 Saturday night, said Los Angeles County sheriff's Sgt. Kevin Finch.
"He tried to swim across and he got swept away," Finch said. "It was like a Class 4 or 5 rapid."
Los Angeles County firefighters searched for McCutchen for several hours after witnesses reported him jumping into the creek, but the search was futile because of darkness, muddy water and heavy rain, Finch said.
McCutchen's case was passed to sheriff's homicide investigators after the fire department called of its rescue mission. The Sheriff's Department lists him as a missing person, said sheriff's Detective Mark Lillienfeld of the homicide unit.
TOPANGA -- Sheriff's deputies continued to search today for a Topanga man who apparently tried to swim across the rain-swollen Topanga Creek on a dare and was swept downstream by powerful currents.
Daniel Joshua McCutchen, 30, may have been intoxicated when friends dared him to swim across the "raging creek" along the 100 block of South Topanga Canyon Boulevard in the Fernwood area about 11:25 Saturday night, said Los Angeles County sheriff's Sgt. Kevin Finch.
"He tried to swim across and he got swept away," Finch said. "It was like a Class 4 or 5 rapid."
Los Angeles County firefighters searched for McCutchen for several hours after witnesses reported him jumping into the creek, but the search was futile because of darkness, muddy water and heavy rain, Finch said.
McCutchen's case was passed to sheriff's homicide investigators after the fire department called of its rescue mission. The Sheriff's Department lists him as a missing person, said sheriff's Detective Mark Lillienfeld of the homicide unit.