Polish man, believed drowned, resurfaces
A police search for a Polish man believed to have drowned himself in a lake ended when the man showed up, wondering what all the fuss was about. Maciej Nowak was last seen drinking heavily after his girlfriend dumped him, and his clothes were found next to a lake. As police divers plumbed the depths for his body, Nowak appeared and said he’d woken up at a nearby house, naked, with no memory of the previous evening. His girlfriend said it was “stupid things like this that caused me to dump him.’’
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