“How did that get in there? I want to know this," said Cedric Ellis, a Southeast DC resident walking along the Anacostia River Sunday.
"I ran out here a few days ago and I saw these lined up over here," said Zoe Ellis. "There was a bunch of them.”
The scooters and trash were pulled from the water by magnet fishermen Ian White and Kevin Sutliff.
“It's our hobby on the weekends," said White. "We try to go around different waterways all over the state, moving on to different states now, and try to clean up and get stuff out of the water.”
But what is magnet fishing?
“It's a Neodymium magnet," said Sutliff. "We attach it to the rope and throw it in the water and see what we find. It's almost just like regular fishing. You get what you get.”
In late October, they recovered a record haul along the Anacostia River near Nationals Park.
“I didn't expect to see 31 scooters and bikes in two days, let alone an electric shopping cart," said White.
Not to mention guns.
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