Just dead drunk
PA Rotorua The Rotorua police thought they were seeing a ghostly apparition when a grey-white form they believed was a dead man rose from a hot stream at Kuirau Park.
On Saturday morning a man had reported a body lying in a murky stream between two hot pools in the park. All that could be seen was a small part of a face and a bit of its chest.
The police concluded the person was dead and, careful not to touch the body in case anything sin-
ister was involved, they called the C. 1.8. who cordoned the area. Photographers and other back-up were called to the scene and it was a surprised group of police who saw the man rise from the pool, . covered from head to toe in slimy clay. The police eventually established that the man, in his late 20s, had had too much to drink at a pub the night before and, on his way home, fell into the stream where he slept for the rest of the night
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Press, 26 July 1989, Page 5
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