and good riddance.
Posted on 06/19/2020 12:55:55 PM PDT by libstripper
A 1940s-era bus where a 24-year-old adventurer starved to death in the Alaskan wilderness has been removed after tourists died while trying to reach it. A US Army helicopter airlifted the vehicle from the spot just west of the Teklanika River, where it had been left to rust for more than half a century. The bus was made famous by Into The Wild, a book and film that told the story of Chris McCandless' death after he lived inside it for 114 days during the summer of 1992.
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what a depressing sad movie that was-
I have enjoyed almost anything written by Jon Krakauer, the author.
Now how many will die or require rescuing thinking it’s still there? :-[
Saw it on TV a week or two ago....................
I have, too. Great movie with a sad, but true, ending. Wilderness is not to be trifled with. Most state parks, and much of the US National Park system are outdoors, but not real wilderness where there’s nobody but you, yourself, and you if you get into some real trouble.
A good example is the bear lover who thought he new what bears understood and reveled in having his picture taken incredibly close to them....that is until he and his girlfriend were killed and eaten!!!
With the current condition of humanity, the Democratic Party has it easy.
Grizzly Man and Chris
are case studies in
“Stupid” that
Kills other People.
Well, I’d make it a tourist attraction, either just inside the main entrance to Denali, or on that “bridge to nowhere” to at least get some use out of the useless pork project.
Why do people lionize this kid? He basically murdered himself by failing to make even minimal provisions for his safety.
He:
(a) died of starvation (or possibly potato-seed poisoning) because he lacked basic foraging skills,
(b) killed a moose and then let most of it rot because he was ignorant of proper food-preservation techniques, and
(c) failed to keep any sort of lifeline to civilization in case of emergency.
He was no sort of a hero.
and good riddance.
For sure they should heavily advertise/update the status of its new location. A tourist attraction in a museum would do.
A shrine to stupidity.
Timothy Treadwell. “Grizzly Man.” Or more accurately, “Gristly Man.”
Take the helicopter away and you have the “Magic Bus.”
Didn’t see the movie, but read the book. All through I just wanted to slap the crap out of the stupid kid for what he put his parents through. He would have been good Antifa fodder.
Was this bus abandoned by some hippies? How did the bus get there, and how did he find it? Those old school buses were cheap to buy.
I disliked that movie. The (’they’ being Sean Penn, the writer / director) portrayed the main character as a sort of messiah of communism. everywhere he went he was instantly welcomed, people instantly loved him, they broke down and cried when it was time for him to move on. But move on he must, for some reason. I was glad after 2 hours of that when that Mary Sue character died from being a dummy.
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