Perhaps it was left by a de-leg-ation?

This has to be the weird news story of the week.

There’s a mystery afoot in Sharon [Pennsylvania] — under what circumstances do you throw out a prosthetic leg?

In the course of picking up 21 tons of trash on the riverbanks of the Shenango in Jamestown and Sharon on Saturday, the River Watchers came across one of those rare gems of trash that there is probably a story behind: a prosthetic leg, complete with shoe.

Finding unusual things during cleanup is not at all unusual, said Shenango River Watchers cofounder Rick Barborak, who said a few notable items sometimes make it to their annual banquets.

“You name it, we pretty much found it. Some things, you don’t want to know. We found inflatable dolls,” Barborak said.

The prosthetic leg will probably fall into their category of “keepers,” Barborak said. That also includes the River Watchers’ mascot, “Scrappy the Duck,” who is an immense duck-shaped concrete lawn ornament.

There’s more at the link.

Who on earth would mislay an artificial leg? And how? I mean . . . do you just hop off into the sunset after dropping it?

Hey! Wait a minute! She lives in a different State, but perhaps she was travelling. Oh, Breda . . .

Peter