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Daniel Dukes.


Late last year, employees at Florida's SeaWorld found Daniel Dukes' naked corpse The physical remains of an expired human being prior to complete decomposition. Property and Possession Rights

In the ordinary use of the term, a property right does not exist in a corpse.
 draped drape  
v. draped, drap·ing, drapes

v.tr.
1. To cover, dress, or hang with or as if with cloth in loose folds: draped the coffin with a flag; a robe that draped her figure.
 over a killer whale killer whale or grampus, a large, rapacious marine mammal, Orcinus orca, of the dolphin family. Male killer whales may reach a length of 30 ft (9 m) and females half that length. . Dukes had apparently slipped security, stripped down to his underwear, and jumped, fell, or gotten pulled into the water. Park officials suspect he drowned trying to swim with the whale. Now his family is suing SeaWorld, saying the park failed to warn people that the animal could kill people who entered the water. Apparently, naming it a "killer whale" wasn't enough.
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Title Annotation:man drowns in killer whale tank
Author:Oliver, Charles
Publication:Reason
Article Type:Brief Article
Geographic Code:1USA
Date:May 1, 2000
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