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Congressional candidate found alive after car accident
Union Leader ^ | April 7, 2006 | Unk

Posted on 04/07/2006 4:49:26 AM PDT by Past Your Eyes

Dover – A volunteer searcher and her dog found a missing congressional hopeful alive in the woods Thursday night, more than 24 hours after he disappeared after a car accident.

Gary Dodds, 41, of Rye, was found around 10 p.m., a mile or more from the Route 16 accident site near the Dover tolls. He was taken to a hospital to be treated for hypothermia.

Fish and Game Lt. John Wimsatt said Dodds had crossed the Bellamy River and was slipping in and out of consciousness when found.

"I don't have an explanation on how he would end up over there. It is odd," he said.

At a press conference, Donna Larson of New England K-9 Search and Rescue described her discovery of Dodds. While she was making her last line search of the night between two power lines and the Bellamy River, Larson saw that her search dog, Eli, had identified a scent. She called to the dog, then heard Dodds say "Over here.

(Excerpt) Read more at unionleader.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Politics/Elections; US: New Hampshire
KEYWORDS: candidate; democrat; dog; garydodds; search
I was thinking this guy must be related to the Kennedys but then realized that nobody had died so, probably not.
1 posted on 04/07/2006 4:49:28 AM PDT by Past Your Eyes
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To: Past Your Eyes

Yet.


2 posted on 04/07/2006 4:50:54 AM PDT by COUNTrecount
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To: Past Your Eyes
Needed time to sober up?

This should be interesting.

3 posted on 04/07/2006 5:04:03 AM PDT by Looking4Truth (Radical Muslims and Illegal immigrants: Too stupid to create so they invade or destroy.)
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To: COUNTrecount

Bizarre................lets see if there is more to this story.


4 posted on 04/07/2006 5:04:07 AM PDT by ConservativeGreek
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To: Past Your Eyes
Fish and Game Lt. John Wimsatt said Dodds had crossed the Bellamy River...

Don't tell me; let me guess. The ferry wasn't running so he swam across the Bellamy, looking for help, of course.

5 posted on 04/07/2006 5:04:46 AM PDT by NonValueAdded (If McKinney gets a free slap, then we all should get a free slap)
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To: Past Your Eyes

To credit the Union Leader, they did mention that this guy is a Democrat...

...In Paragraph 34.


6 posted on 04/07/2006 5:15:52 AM PDT by bondjamesbond (RICE 2008)
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To: Looking4Truth
Needed time to sober up?

Of course! But don't hold your breath waiting for a MSM examination of that issue, as they did with the Cheney shooting.

7 posted on 04/07/2006 5:17:16 AM PDT by montag813
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This fine fellow seems to possess all the characteristics required to be a congressman.

I hope he eventually will remember, where in those woods, the money is buried.

8 posted on 04/07/2006 5:20:14 AM PDT by battlegearboat
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To: Past Your Eyes

Maybe he attended the Ted Kennedy Driving School.


9 posted on 04/07/2006 5:35:10 AM PDT by sportutegrl (People who say, "All I know is . . ." really mean, "All I want you to focus on is . . .")
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To: Past Your Eyes
I saw a report of this on the late night news on a Boston station.It shows the damaged car with both its front airbags deployed.

I always thought that cars had sensors which caused the passenger airbag to deploy *only* if a person was sitting in it.

If this is the case,that could be one of the reasons why he disappeared after the accident.

10 posted on 04/07/2006 5:55:55 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative
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To: Past Your Eyes

Prior to the crash, he may have been listening to ZZ Top's Arrested For Driving While Blind.


11 posted on 04/07/2006 6:22:54 AM PDT by Deguello (Wake me up early, be good to my dogs and teach my children to play.)
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