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”?
I’m thinking more along the lines of: “Well how did that test drive thing work out for ya, huh sh*&head???!!!”
Us too, but we always dug out, jacked it up, paved the way with vegetation or whatever we had to do to get out and we’ve never been stranded.
LOL...yeah...
“Once they go stuck, they should have remained with the vehicle and created a smokey fire. Spare tires create a lot of smoke.”
My plan is to start a large smokey *forest* fire. They only turn out so many searchers for one dumbass lost person, but they mobilize half the county for a forest fire.
The youngest "boomers" are now 48. These are early Gen-Xers. I'm almost 44, and I certainly know better. Our winter trip packing includes extra water, food, compact shovel, a bag of sand, extra clothes/winter clothes, blankets and fire-making stuff. That's just for the trips where we won't be leaving the highway on purpose.
We were following the directions on our GPS system down in Alabama a couple of years ago; and it directed us down an old logging road that looked okay at first - then it suddenly disintegrated into a one-lane, washed out hog wallow on the side of a steep ravine from which you couldn’t back out if you wanted to. Somehow, we were able to continue on; but it was tense and in the middle of nowhere.
In the Oregan case, the man was following his GPS and it directed him to take a logging truck road that closes in the winter.
These people were not boomers. As it turns out, you’re the dumbass.
Just last week Les “Survivorman” had this same thing. ‘cept he was in Norway, way down a road no one usually went on in winter.
Trying to hike out is rarely a good idea.
Sauce, goose, gander. You instantly blamed young people and they turned out to be boomers. :)
I knew the limits of my VW THING
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I am pondering this line...
My guess is that this idiot would not have known how to use a winch even if his jeep had been equipped with one.
This I cannot abide.
Google VW THING. Yep. I used to have one of those critters.
Google VW THING. Yep. I used to have one of those critters.
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I vaugely remember them. I was pondering its limits. LOL
I was watching a survival program on Discovery Channel and that’s the first thing they recommended if one were stuck in a remote area with no way out. Other suggestions were to cut up the seat cushions and strap them to your feet for snow shoes.
I love that show.
Speaking of I Shouldn't Be Alive, 99 percent of the problems presented are caused by people making really stupid choices! Sometimes I find myself almost rooting for nature to take them out. The Australian dad who gets stuck in the desert with his daughter comes to mind. Wow!
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