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Originally Posted by bkcunningham1

There is a water tower in West Virginia, near the Virginia border, where a young man went swimming one night, drunk and alone. He drowned and nobody knew his body was there in the water until the residents near the water tower started seeing cloudy water coming from their taps with an odd smell.

The water treatment plant operators sent someone to the water tower, high on a mountain, and there was the man's truck and clothes. They discovered his decomposing body in the tower. People there were upset when others joked "There must be something in the water," for every little ailment they were plagued with for years after the fact.

I have a problem with the phrase "There must be something in the water". As a young child (before I learned how to swim), I fell into the deep end of a swimming pool and almost drowned. As a teenager, I fell into Arctic waters with three layers of clothing and almost drowned. So when I hear that phrase, it reminds me of the times when I "was that something in the water" drowning. And obviously that phrase is hurtful to many West Virginians. Maybe we can use the phrase "There must be something in the Orange Juice". Oh wait a minute... didn't OJ used to live in Florida?