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	Podcast:		Other News
	Episode:		'He needed you to bet that he was going to die.' Meet the waterfall daredevil of the Northwest.
	Category:		Government & Organizations
	Duration:		00:08:14
	Publish Date:		2019-12-21 12:00:00
	Description:		Back in the 1920s, a career as a “daredevil” was not unheard of. Newsreels showed people dancing on top of skyscrapers and balancing on the wings of airplanes. At the age of 46, Al Faussett from Monroe, Washington, decided that being a daredevil would be his next career. “Al’s wife had had enough of him and promptly divorced him when he decided his career was going to change and he was going to become a daredevil,” said Guy Faussett, Al’s great-grandson. Faussett was a slim man with a head full of hair and a face that was creased from many hours of working out in the sun with horses and cattle. His work varied. He had been a logger, he dabbled in real estate and he earned extra money racing horses in town. He was set on going over waterfalls. On May 30, 1926, Al Faussett hauled a dug out boat to Sunset Falls, on the South Fork of the Skykomish River in eastern Snohomish County. He went down this 104-foot watery death trap, as a test. He survived. Those few seconds of terror earned him
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