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struggle4progress

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Tue Oct 27, 2015, 09:33 AM Oct 2015

Ignored by media, discoverer of famous fake skeletons finally gets news coverage

PARKER, Ariz. (AP) — A diver who felt he didn't get his fair share of the credit for discovering two fake skeletons sitting in lawn chairs at the bottom of the Colorado River has removed them from their watery grave.

Martin Sholl said he spotted the skeletons, adorned in sunglasses, flip-flops, a bikini and a rainbow-colored wig, tethered to lawn chairs while scuba diving .. in May ...

... "It was funny. The next day when my friend called and told me that the chaos I created was on every morning show in the country, I was shocked. ... I found out they didn't mention me at all" ...

Sholl said he pulled them from the river Friday and put them on his balcony ...


http://tucson.com/news/state-and-regional/arizona-diver-feeling-slighted-pulls-fake-skeletons-from-colorado-river/article_750a7721-5472-57f6-9155-f52a1602dda3.html
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