chuckufarlie: When did canadians become such pussies? Was this an edict from the queen?

When a person is "lost" for 15 hours, nothing that he does is considered as survival.

To be fair, it's not like he issued the press release and phoned a publisher immediately.

That we know of.

Ponzholio: What the article didn't mention is he went with 2 other people but had to resort to cannibalism after the first 6-hours...

Mmmm...back bacon.

FriarReb98: Representative of the unwashed masses: FriarReb98: Representative of the unwashed masses: That's nothing, I once spent an entire weekend in a tent!

Pfft. Week, motherfarka.

Oh yeah? I didn't have a pillow, I had to use a jacket instead! Take that!

I... dear farking Christ, how'd you make it?!

LUXURY! The first time I went camping in the desert, a 80+ mph windstorm blew up, forcing us to strike our tents and seek the paltry shelter of the 36ft tractor trailer we'd brought along. Dozens of people were forced to survive for nearly two hours with nothing more than a supply of ice, margarita mix, tequila, and a battery powered blender.

We had no coarse salt! do you hear me, NO SALT!

(completely true story btw)

I went 9 months one time with no food or drink, my only life line was a cord and placenta. Does that count? I think I may have drank my own urine during this time, but the memories are so dark.

mikdeetx: There are swamps in Ontario? Or really, isn't that just the permafrost melting?

The Greenock Swamp by where I grew up was pretty famous small distilleries set up during prohibition. Also is supposed to be a pretty good place for disposing of bodies for the same reason. If you get into the middle of it and don't want to be found, you aren't going to be found.

Representative of the unwashed masses: That's nothing, I once spent an entire weekend in a tent!

Let's keep this in perspective, this man was from Toronto. He is lucky he made it 15 minutes without having a nervous breakdown.

FloydA: gopher321: mikdeetx: There are swamps in Ontario? Or really, isn't that just the permafrost melting?

Believe it or not, I was told Ontario has the second largest swamp in North America,

Is it the Leafs?

They're more of a desert, because they always come last! ah, aha.

I once spent a five hour layover at an airport in greater Detroit. I'm surprised I made it out alive.

gopher321: mikdeetx: There are swamps in Ontario? Or really, isn't that just the permafrost melting?

Believe it or not, I was told Ontario has the second largest swamp in North America, next to the Okeepenokee or whatever you call it down south.

/not so interesting factoid

Much of the area north and east of the lakes Superior and Huron is swamp.

Erix: chuckufarlie: When did canadians become such pussies? Was this an edict from the queen?

When a person is "lost" for 15 hours, nothing that he does is considered as survival.

To be fair, it's not like he issued the press release and phoned a publisher immediately.

That we know of.

no matter what he may have done, the news people should nave ignored this "story".

FloydA: FriarReb98: Representative of the unwashed masses: FriarReb98: Representative of the unwashed masses: That's nothing, I once spent an entire weekend in a tent!

Pfft. Week, motherfarka.

Oh yeah? I didn't have a pillow, I had to use a jacket instead! Take that!

I... dear farking Christ, how'd you make it?!


You just have to sew some sleeves onto a vest. But that's not important right now.

Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit sniffing glue.

When he got back to civilization did he have problems adjusting? Did his family remember him? Declare him dead?

skinink: I once spent a five hour layover at an airport in greater Detroit. I'm surprised I made it out alive.

now you did it, Detroit will be sending somebody to find you and correct this oversight.

FloydA: Believe it or not, I was told Ontario has the second largest swamp in North America,

Is it the Leafs?

Swamps of Sadness, maybe.

/Just signed Artax to a 3-yr $35M deal

skodabunny: This reminds me of some farker's recent CSB that they once walked two miles to buy a Stephen King novel. Two miles! Oh the humanity! What a fan that man is! Presumably he took a backpack full of cheeseypuffs and mountain dew to ward off starvation on that heroic quest. Is this the same guy? Is there a new Stephen King book out?

That's a silly question.
Stephen King released two novels, a collection of short stories, six novellas, and the scripts to four movies in the time it took you to write your comment.

I was lost once. I was a teenager, and was with my friend who was about 4 years older than me and very weird..we were in a forest..we found a cave and entered it..When we came out the other side there was an old stone building. There were monks there. The well-chamber was dimly lighted by lamps; the water was drawn with a windlass and chain by monks, and poured into troughs which delivered it into stone reservoirs outside in the chapel -- when there was water to draw, I mean -- and none but monks could enter the well-chamber. I entered it, for I had temporary authority to do so, by courtesy of my professional brother and subordinate. But he hadn't entered it himself. He did everything by incantations; he never worked his intellect. If he had stepped in there and used his eyes, instead of his disordered mind, he could have cured the well by natural means, and then turned it into a miracle in the customary way; but no, he was an old numskull, a magician who believed in his own magic; and no magician can thrive who is handicapped with a superstition like that.

I once SLEPT for 15 hours, WITHOUT water, surviving on nothing but my exhaustion and dreams of Jessica Alba.

I had to check the weather for the area. It was 75-80 during the day and 65 at night. Perfect camping weather.

Apparently, he was down wit' OPP

satanorsanta: I had to check the weather for the area. It was 75-80 during the day and 65 at night. Perfect camping weather.

Knowing that, the question is how'd he survive being dragged out after only a few hours?

FloydA: FriarReb98: Representative of the unwashed masses: FriarReb98: Representative of the unwashed masses: That's nothing, I once spent an entire weekend in a tent!

Pfft. Week, motherfarka.

Oh yeah? I didn't have a pillow, I had to use a jacket instead! Take that!

I... dear farking Christ, how'd you make it?!


You just have to sew some sleeves onto a vest. But that's not important right now.

Oh you!

satanorsanta: I had to check the weather for the area. It was 75-80 during the day and 65 at night. Perfect camping weather.

Seriously... They make it sound like if he didn't have a fire he would have died in freezing temperatures. Most people up north call what this guy did "Tuesday"..

And in the dead of summer no less!

Representative of the unwashed masses: FriarReb98: Representative of the unwashed masses: That's nothing, I once spent an entire weekend in a tent!

Pfft. Week, motherfarka.

Oh yeah? I didn't have a pillow, I had to use a jacket instead! Take that!

Wimp.

There i was, stuck on Hickam AFB, surrounded by $8 a six-pack Buds, with only a broken down box to rest my weary head on. Freakin' hurricane/inspection combo's- thought I'd never get back to Japan. Tried to take the circuitus route via Guam and discovered how the real military spent their days: snorkeling until 9, volleyball and beer for the rest of the day. More cardboard to sleep on for the next 4 days (you can actually get bored living in Paradise), two aborted flights due to Hurricane and humanitarian reasons before i finally made it back to Japan with a day of leave to spare.

ordinarysteve: [upload.wikimedia.org image 640x480]
A picture of said swamp....well, for 41 nights a year at least (since they will never make the playoffs)

I found a better photo of the tower...



You're welcome. ;^)

clowncar on fire: Representative of the unwashed masses: FriarReb98: Representative of the unwashed masses: That's nothing, I once spent an entire weekend in a tent!

Pfft. Week, motherfarka.

Oh yeah? I didn't have a pillow, I had to use a jacket instead! Take that!

Wimp.

There i was, stuck on Hickam AFB, surrounded by $8 a six-pack Buds, with only a broken down box to rest my weary head on. Freakin' hurricane/inspection combo's- thought I'd never get back to Japan. Tried to take the circuitus route via Guam and discovered how the real military spent their days: snorkeling until 9, volleyball and beer for the rest of the day. More cardboard to sleep on for the next 4 days (you can actually get bored living in Paradise), two aborted flights due to Hurricane and humanitarian reasons before i finally made it back to Japan with a day of leave to spare.

were you in the shiat?

Representative of the unwashed masses: clowncar on fire: Representative of the unwashed masses: FriarReb98: Representative of the unwashed masses: That's nothing, I once spent an entire weekend in a tent!

Pfft. Week, motherfarka.

Oh yeah? I didn't have a pillow, I had to use a jacket instead! Take that!

Wimp.

There i was, stuck on Hickam AFB, surrounded by $8 a six-pack Buds, with only a broken down box to rest my weary head on. Freakin' hurricane/inspection combo's- thought I'd never get back to Japan. Tried to take the circuitus route via Guam and discovered how the real military spent their days: snorkeling until 9, volleyball and beer for the rest of the day. More cardboard to sleep on for the next 4 days (you can actually get bored living in Paradise), two aborted flights due to Hurricane and humanitarian reasons before i finally made it back to Japan with a day of leave to spare.

were you in the shiat?

(nick nolte in tropic thunder pic here)

15 Hours?

Didn't know they made 'em that soft in Toronto


/apologies to any Torontions, Torontians...Torontons?...PEOPLE FROM TORONTO!

Really? 77 posts and no drinking of piss?

Fark, I am disappoint.

FloydA: I was once locked outside of a liquor store for 24 hours.

I was once locked in a meat store freezer with my brother, Bobby, once. The owner, of the butcher shop, Sam, warned us that their was no inside release. We should have sued him.

Oh, hai, what's up in this thread?

publikenemy: I was lost once. I was a teenager, and was with my friend who was about 4 years older than me and very weird..

LARPers in general.

OH.


Well, yeah, it was one of those toronto people. They tend to call in the army when the sidewalks get covered in snow.

Mog32Kupo: 15 Hours?

Didn't know they made 'em that soft in Toronto


/apologies to any Torontions, Torontians...Torontons?...PEOPLE FROM TORONTO!

Torontonians
and many are softer... I'm going to blame their parents.

BurnShrike: Wow. What a harrowing tale. How ever did he manage to stay alive for 15 hours in the forest?



......and in the SUMMER yet ! ! !

Harry_Seldon: FloydA: I was once locked outside of a liquor store for 24 hours.

I was once locked in a meat store freezer with my brother, Bobby, once.

If the Georgian Bay area is suffering from the usual black fly / deer fly season overlap and the mosquitoes are their usual size, then spending a night in the woods without some sort of protection wouldn't be a lot of fun - easily survivable, mind you, but not a lot of fun. At any rate, "survived" sounds a bit lame and desperate for clicks, "spent the night" is more accurate.

/suburbanite who cottages in the Muskokas
//shakes head in embarrassment at this article

Came for this, which would make it a long 15 hours:

You can get lost in the woods, but there is no shortage of food.

FloydA: FriarReb98: Representative of the unwashed masses: FriarReb98: Representative of the unwashed masses: That's nothing, I once spent an entire weekend in a tent!

Pfft. Week, motherfarka.

Oh yeah? I didn't have a pillow, I had to use a jacket instead! Take that!

I... dear farking Christ, how'd you make it?!


You just have to sew some sleeves onto a vest. But that's not important right now.

Whelp. I pissed myself. So thank for that.

sno man: Mog32Kupo: 15 Hours?

Didn't know they made 'em that soft in Toronto


/apologies to any Torontions, Torontians...Torontons?...PEOPLE FROM TORONTO!

Torontonians


And I thought they smelled bad on the outside!

FloydA: I was once locked outside of a liquor store for 24 hours.

I was once locked in a liquor store for 24 hours. A part of my died that day.

Specifically, my liver.

went on an expedition one time and forgot the corkscrew and had to survive on food and water for several days.

nothing between me and the cold hard ground except a young native girl...

jonasborg: You can get lost in the woods, but there is no shortage of food.

most people, especially urbanites, wouldn't even be able to find a raspberry bush in the woods...

FloydA: FriarReb98: Representative of the unwashed masses: FriarReb98: Representative of the unwashed masses: That's nothing, I once spent an entire weekend in a tent!

Pfft. Week, motherfarka.

Oh yeah? I didn't have a pillow, I had to use a jacket instead! Take that!

I... dear farking Christ, how'd you make it?!


You just have to sew some sleeves onto a vest. But that's not important right now.

Never knew wtf the "funny" button was for until that.

Anderson Cooper also reported : "The Toronto man also stubbed his toe and broke a nail !"

Harry_Seldon: FloydA: I was once locked outside of a liquor store for 24 hours.

I was once locked in a meat store freezer with my brother, Bobby, once. The owner, of the butcher shop, Sam, warned us that their was no inside release. We should have sued him.

In a strange turn of events, Marcia had shown up to pick up that abruzzo sausage all the cool kids were talking about at school. Fortunate for you, she was able to shake off those thoughts of a lusty demi- "jungle fever" fantasy filled weekend long enough to recognize your whiny plaintive cries for help she's come to know ever since your dad dragged her own mother out of the "Bottoms Up" club in Vegas only 3 short years ago.

That was before that biatch Alice showed up in that taunt maid's uniform...

FloydA: I was once locked outside of a liquor store for 24 hours.

You think that's bad? I once had to stay in Utah for two whole months for a job.

I got lost downtown for about 3 hours, but I ate a hobo for strength. Luckily I survived, but I was getting hungry again and the hobos had fled the hunting grounds.

With the heat and humidity in a swamp you damn well can die in 15 hours if you don't have water. Of course this is Canada, is it hot there too?

if he got lost in winter he'd have been dead within an hour