RIVERS -- Perhaps, for the long-term benefit of the human race, there are occasions when we should NOT call 911 in an apparent emergency.  Case in point comes from a reader who lives along the runoff-raging Spokane River near Flora Road – near Flora Rapids and Sullivan Rapids.

”Three  Darwin Award candidates came down near our house this evening in a small rubber raft with no life jackets and one paddle.

Hell, we had our life jackets on fishing the flat water of Badger Lake a couple of hours earlier.”

For the record, It's illegal to be on the Spokane River without a lifejacket anytime, even in sane summer river flows and warmer water temperatures.