Rain holding up work

We had been kayaking down down the river for a couple days and were planning on pulling out at St. Gabriel to hitch a ride back to BR. When we go to pull out, we pull up to a spot on the bank where find an outstretched decaying remains floating in the river. Fleshy bones and what appeared to be a flowery patterned dress on the victim. No head. Looked to be the size of a small girl. We thought we had found the body of a little girl and it had us all sick to our stomachs.

We call 911 and report it. It was a hot Sunday afternoon, and soon enough the entire Iberville Parish Sheriff's department shows up. The guy in charge walks over to us and the body. I'm not lying when I say this. He picked up a stick and proceeded to poke the body. In the most stereotypical southern cop drawl goes, "yeeeep, that's a little girl alright." By now the entire town is lined up on the levee watching this going on. Specialists are called in and show up. When they get there, they walk up, take one look at us and the cops and say, "That's a dead dog or coyote. Thanks for wasting our time." Then they walk off.

Turns out the skin had lost all the hair and detached from the body and resembled a dress floating in the water and the current had mangled the body to splay it out to resemble a human.

What's up with them Jim Tattman commercials?