Rescuers are searching for a Chattanooga man who washed away into an underground culvert as children watched after boastfully daring friends to a $5 bet that he could swim in a neighborhood ditch overflowing with rainwater."Hey, watch me do this!"
Fire Department spokesman Bruce Garner said Monday that firefighters rescued Albert Miller, who also jumped in the gushing ditch Sunday, but one man remained missing.
Leslie Townsend said Monday that he and other relatives were watching Sunday as his uncle, 46-year-old Sylvester Kitchens, went shirtless into the overflowing ditch beside their house in east Chattanooga, planning to catch overhead vines 100 feet away. Kitchens disappeared into the culvert and a search is continuing.
Townsend said his uncle dared everyone to bet him $5..