Floating Restaurant Breaks Loose Carrying a Worker Downriver

Call it a new variation on a to-go order. A couple of workers at the Jeff Ruby's Waterfront Restaurant were taken by surprise when the floating establishment broke its moorings yesterday and sauntered a few hundred yards downriver, according to CNN.

It was a chilly morning (overnight lows hit 13 degrees, according to AccuWeather). The barge-based restaurant, which floats on the Ohio River, is tied to the Covington, KY shore and offers views of downtown Cincinnati. Suddenly the cables that tethered it to the shore began "popping and snapping," according to restaurant owner Jeff Ruby. A worker was walking the long ramp from the dock to the business when the dock end of the ramp dropped into the frigid waters. The worker got back up on the dock, but another one, already on board, was stuck for an hour until rescue workers could pull him off the vessel.