Posted on 10/01/2011 10:56:13 AM PDT by Auntie Mame
David Lavau, age 67, missing for six days, was found alive and well by his grown children who formed their own search party to find their father. They reported him missing to the authorities after he'd been missing for five days and on the sixth day formed their own search party.
The children drove the desolate stretch of road they suspected their father had driven, stopping at the dropoffs calling their father's name, and at one place they heard a faint, "Help, help," and amazingly, it was their father! The state of his car after plunging so many feet was enough to make them realize it was lucky he even survived the crash, much less surviving for six days, alone at the bottom of a ravine with broken bones and listening to the sound of cars passing by just beyond reach.
But that is not the end of the story.
Alongside his car was another crashed car which was from a completely separate accident and contained a badly decomposed body.
Naturally, the worst curves offer the best views .. and I noticed in CA, where possible, they have those pull-overs for viewing at those points. Adding to the fun/excitement of a Western US mountain drive is that easily half of all vehicles are huge mobile homes.
We had a case like this one in my area a few years ago. Young guy was coming home one night along his usual route, went off the road next to a bridge, noses down into the bottom of the creek and the car flips over showing only the dark underside of the car. Guy drifts in/out of consciousness for a week before he comes to long enough to unbuckle himslef and crawl up the creek bank where he’s finally seen by a passing motorist.
His family had reported him missing right away, but cops said he’d probably gone out partying or chasing tail or ran off. If the people that had supposedly “looked” had acutally looked over the side of the bridge they’d have seen him.
He wasn’t missing in some wildnerness area, but right off US 295 near DC.
An acquaintance of mine was rushing to work on a Monday morning after a holiday, the company policy being no vacation pay if you miss the Monday afterward. The guy had perfect attendnace. Excellent worker. Long history with the company. He tried to be a freight train but lost the race. Left a wife and two children behind.
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