Earlier this summer, Louis C.K. found a dead body. According to an interview with David Letterman on the Late Show, C.K was driving his boat up the East River near lower Manhattan when he spotted a "floater" in the water.

Beginning around rush hour on Wednesday, eyewitness reports of a dolphin swimming around New York's East River started trickling in on Twitter. Before noon, local news teams were on the scene at FDR drive. As of Wednesday around 3p.m., he (or she? Dolphins are boys, right?) was still there, swimming around in circles, distracting everyone when they should be watching their afternoon stories.

A helicopter has crashed in the East River. Three people are reportedly trapped and NYPD rescuers are in the water.

26-year-old Phillippe Treuille was sad because a girl dumped him. He was soothing his pain by contemplating the East River yesterday, when a passing stranger told him to jump in. He did, and survived. See what you did, stranger? [Gothamist]

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