The day after his wife disappeared in a kayaking accident, an
Anchorage
man answered his door to find two grim-faced Alaska
State Troopers.
"We're sorry Mr. Wilkens, but we have some
information about your wife,"
said one trooper.
"Tell me! Did you find her?" Wilkens shouted.
The
troopers looked at each other. One said, "We have some bad news,
some
good news, and some really great news. Which do you want to
hear first?
Fearing the worst, an ashen Mr. Wilkens said,
"Give me the bad news
first."
The trooper said,
"I'm sorry to tell you, sir, but this morning we found
your wife's
body in Kachemak Bay."
"Oh my God!" exclaimed Wilkens.
Swallowing hard, he asked, "What's the
good news?"
The trooper continued, "When we pulled her up, she had 12
twenty-five
pound king crabs and 6 good-size Dungeness crabs
clinging to her."
Stunned, Mr. Wilkens demanded, "If
that's the good news, What's the great
news?"
The
trooper said, "We're going to pull her up again tomorrow."