LAKE TEXOMA -- One
local man planned to spend the day at Lake Texoma
with his family, hoping he might get a big catch.
He never expected what he found fishing at Juniper
West.Boating
on Lake Texoma seemed like just another day for
Bob Faulkner until he reeled in what he calls the
biggest catch of his life. He never expected that
his big catch would turn out to be a stretch
Hummer limousine.
Witnesses were just
as shocked as Faulkner to see the vehicle.
"We was out fishing
and we started to come up and we seen guys trying
to hook onto something and found out that there
ended up being a Humvee in the water and we didn't
know what it was for a long time- we thought
someone's boat sunk," says Shane Sawyers, a
fisherman who witnessed the events unfold.
Faulkner says he
was backing his boat up at the end of the day,
when suddenly his 27.5 ft. watercraft stopped
suddenly.
"The guy in the
boat that was doing the hooking ended up- he was
trying to pull it up with his anchor because he
backed his boat into it and there was a bunch of
people that put their boats in this morning. We
did too.
And we never did
hit it... And it's just a wonder that we didn't
hit it," Sawyers says.
Pottsboro Police
say they immediately recognized the vehicle.
"It was stolen from
a residence in our city and we're still, as I
said, we're still interviewing people, trying to
gather the suspects and who we think it might be
and put it all together," says Brett Arterburn,
Pottsboro police chief.
Faulkner knew he
hit something large and had to get it out of the
water. When he attached his anchor and tried to
remove the object, he pulled in a large piece of
vinyl.
He contacted
the Grayson County Sheriff's
Office,
and when deputies arrived, with Faulkner's help,
after four tries, they reeled the vehicle in.
Faulkner says he
couldn't believe his eyes as the roof just kept
coming out of the water. He says finding any
vehicle in the lake was a shock, but realizing he
"caught" a stretch limousine is one catch he says
he'll never forget.
The case is still
under investigation and police say they do not
know why someone stole the vehicle and then dumped
it. They are investigating if anything was taken
from the vehicle.