Posted on 12/07/2012 10:05:40 AM PST by GSWarrior
A woman trapped for six days in the Sierra was found by her brother as she crawled along a snow-covered dirt road where she and her male companion had been testing the man's new four-wheel-drive Jeep, authorities said Thursday.
Paula Lane's companion didn't survive the ordeal and died in the snow after leaving Lane in the vehicle and setting out to find help, said a spokesman for the Alpine County Sheriff's Department.
Lane crawled past her companion's dead body as she was trying to make it to safety, said Undersheriff Robert Levy.
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So curious minds want to know: as she crawled past his frozen, dead lifeless body, did she weakly kick him in the face and mutter “dumbazz”?
My memory of that case, the software developer from SF, is that the couple was returning from Thanksgiving with family and made a wrong turn, or a gate hadn’t been properly closed. They had their 2 kids with them. They did survive about 2 weeks before he decided to leave and try to find help. The family was found within a day or so of his leaving but that killed him. Really sad.
He was 44 & she was 46.
“Gary Lane drove up the road with the loader for several miles, where he found (his sister) distressed and crawling in the road,” Levy said. “Gary Lane loaded Paula Lane into the bucket of the loader and returned her to Highway 88.”
That’s actually pretty funny. Implies Paula is a little on the large side.
During summer, probably. In winter the body burns a great many more calories trying to stay warm, and length of time you can survive without food goes way down.
... with 4wd you’ll get stuck farther out
Plan accordingly.
James & Kati Kim. There is a movie .. ‘Wrong Turn: The Kati Kim Story’ that does a good job telling the really tragic story.
Or maybe the loader only had one seat.
...and shouldn't have bought a Jeep
Well, yeah. But it’s more fun think of a woman so large he had to bring along a loader to move her.
I’m hoping that’s the explanation.
I hope she chooses wisely next time, and at least no spawn from this pair.
DUMB! Events like this happen year after year and people continue to do it.
The Donner experience supports that theory.
I may be wrong on that last point above.
“When people panic,” Levy said, “we know they don’t make good decisions.”
Hells bells, he had already spent 6 days in the vehicle with her, he figgered it was worth the risk to save his own sanity. But he lost.
Well, they’d still survive longer than they would being exposed to the elements AND trying to stay warm.
“He was 44 & she was 46.”
Lesson learned, “boomers are dumbasses.”
You need to watch the movie What’s Eating Gilbert Grape if you haven’t already. They have ways of dealing with incapacitated fat people.
;)
The Donner Party also didn’t know the danger of the Sierras.
Although their mistakes were made many weeks before in another state.
But the similarity is that they chose a foolish “short cut” like these people did.
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