Kirk Raymond Jones

2003 fall Horseshoe Falls viewed from the Canadian side of the Niagara River in 2014. alt=High view of Horseshoe Falls from the Canadian side of the Niagara River. According to his family and friends, Jones, who was then 40 years old, had been interested in going over Niagara Falls for many years and believed that there was a place that one could jump from and survive. One friend claimed that Jones hoped to make money from the stunt.

Eight weeks before going over Niagara Falls, Jones, who had been fired from his father Raymond's car gauge manufacturing plant, went on a trip to the Canadian side of Niagara Falls with his parents, who planned to retire in Oregon after the trip. scouting; however, he did not go down the falls. attempted to go over Niagara Falls in a inflatable ball. His empty ball was found by a Maid of the Mist boat on the same day, while his body was found by the United States Coast Guard downstream the Niagara River, at the mouth of Lake Ontario in the village of Youngstown, on June 2. The snake's fate is unknown.