Quote Originally Posted by Craftlady
I dont see anything strange or funny. Because,
The "overlooking" is a figure of speech to describe where they found the man.

They could of said "around the Bow River" - "near the Bow River" - "at the Bow River" for example.

Overlooking is used allot to describie locations.
I have to disagree. "Overlooking" has to describe something. The road overlooking, or a terrace overlooking, but just "overlooking" is wrong. Since they didn't qualify the verb with another subject it leaves one believing the man is "overlooking" the Bow River. The other examples you gave didn't involve verbs, so they did not need an additional subject.