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Drunk missing man joins his own search party
The Toronto Sun ^ | Sept. 30 2021 | Denette Wilford

Posted on 10/01/2021 11:23:36 AM PDT by xp38

There’s drunk, and then there’s this guy.

Search and rescue teams in Turkey were looking in the Bursa region for a man who was reported missing.

Friends of Bayhan Mutlu and area residents joined in the manhunt when another person soon linked up with the search party: The missing man himself.

According to Turkish news channel NTV, once people started calling out Mutlu’s name, he came forward and asked, “Who are we looking for? I’m here.

It is unclear how the 50-year-old came across his own search party, how his friends were unaware their pal was in their midst, or just how wasted Mutlu was, but it’s a happy ending regardless.


TOPICS: Humor; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: turkey
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Joining your own search party might be a bucket list item.
1 posted on 10/01/2021 11:23:36 AM PDT by xp38
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2 posted on 10/01/2021 11:24:30 AM PDT by EEGator
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The headline alone is a riot! Lol


3 posted on 10/01/2021 11:27:51 AM PDT by V_TWIN
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Earlier...

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4 posted on 10/01/2021 11:28:05 AM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo (The best things in life aren't things.)
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This sounds like a Biden Administration project.
5 posted on 10/01/2021 11:29:07 AM PDT by immadashell (New Planned Parenthood slogan: Black Babies’ Lives Don't Matter!c)
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I did use search but obviously the source and headline were different. I wasn’t as successful as Bayhan.


6 posted on 10/01/2021 11:31:01 AM PDT by xp38
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I want to meet this guy’s life coach.

“I’m 50 years old and I’m still searching for myself.”

“Take Jim Beam with you. Maybe he can help.”


7 posted on 10/01/2021 11:31:13 AM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer”)
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This happened in the UK once.

Guy was out and got delayed by some really bad weather.

Came back in to find a search party being organized to find someone lost. Since he had just been over in that area thought he might be able to help. And at some point figured out they were looking for him.

8 posted on 10/01/2021 11:31:22 AM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (I had my emotional DNA done. Turns out I am a reincarnation of Subadar Prag Tewarri.)
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So, if there’s a reward for finding him does he collect I wonder?


9 posted on 10/01/2021 11:34:42 AM PDT by V_TWIN
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I recall reading about someone attending their own funeral.

And it wasn’t Tom Sawyer.


10 posted on 10/01/2021 12:01:57 PM PDT by Spirit of Liberty (~Truth does not mind being questioned. A lie does not like being challenged.~)
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Joining your own search party might be a bucket list item.

I can see that as a non-zero possibility in my future. I have no problem ignoring my phone. When I'm camping/hiking I sometimes won't check it for several days. Although friends and family should be used to this by now I could see a mis-communication leading to concern... Also when I'm camping I a routinely partake in adult beverages, particularly around a campfire while cooking on cast iron. I'm also a nice guy, if I heard there was a search party forming, I'd grab my pack and radios and join in.

I can see it now:

Random searcher: "Hey, we finally got a picture of the guy we're looking for texted to us... Wait, isn't this that guy over there urinating on the tree? The same guy we've been hiking/searching with for the last hour?"

11 posted on 10/01/2021 12:08:42 PM PDT by ThunderSleeps (Biden/Harris - illegitimate and everyone knows it.)
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Now THAT is a bender.


12 posted on 10/01/2021 12:16:58 PM PDT by Salvavida (Win the COUNTY fight first.)
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Hope he finds himself.


13 posted on 10/01/2021 12:20:02 PM PDT by DannyTN
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I would have loved to see the search party’s reaction!


14 posted on 10/01/2021 12:40:23 PM PDT by telescope115 (Proud member of the ANTIFAuci movement. )
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>> Hope he finds himself.

Can a man find himself if he doesn’t know he’s missing?


15 posted on 10/01/2021 12:51:26 PM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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Sounds to me like the rest of the search party was also drunk off their asses, to not recognize him.

A whole town full of Joe Bidens.


16 posted on 10/01/2021 12:51:50 PM PDT by Ancesthntr (“The right to buy weapons is the right to be free.” ― A.E. Van Vogt, The Weapons Shops of Isher)
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Now you’ve got the Rush song stuck in my head! LOL!


17 posted on 10/01/2021 2:26:53 PM PDT by proud American in Canada ("Fear is a reaction; Courage is a decision." Winston Churchil)
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Now you’ve got the Rush song stuck in my head! LOL!


18 posted on 10/01/2021 2:33:15 PM PDT by proud American in Canada ("Fear is a reaction; Courage is a decision." Winston Churchil)
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That is quite the existential question!


19 posted on 10/01/2021 2:33:54 PM PDT by proud American in Canada ("Fear is a reaction; Courage is a decision." Winston Churchil)
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Good old Bayhan. He always knew how to put the party in search party.


20 posted on 10/01/2021 2:49:26 PM PDT by KarlInOhio ("Anti-fascist" is from the official name of the Berlin Wall: Anti-fascist Protection Barrier.)
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