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A hydrographic operations team pulls what turned out to be a floating dock from the South River, a tributary of the Chesapeake Bay near Annapolis, Md., Thursday, Sept. 3, 2020. The agency was investigating reports from community members who thought they saw a casket bobbing up and down in the river. (Maryland Department of Natural Resources via AP)

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Police in Maryland investigating reports of a casket photographed bobbing up and down in a river discovered the object was something far less macabre.

By Associated Press September 12, 2020