Mushroom pickers lost hope, considered eating dog (Pit Bull)

Assoc. Press ^ | 02/06/2012 | JEFF BARNARD

[Responsibility2nd]

GOLD BEACH, Ore. (AP) — Dan Conne says he and his wife and son thought they were going to die after getting lost while picking mushrooms and spending nearly a week in the rugged forest of southwest Oregon.

They spent the nights huddled in a hollow log and considered sacrificing their pit bull, Jesse, for food.

"She's that good a dog, she'd have done it, too," Conne said.

But help finally arrived Saturday when a volunteer helicopter pilot decided to look outside the search area and spotted the family — Dan, his wife, Belinda, and their 25-year-old son, Michael — on the edge of a deep ravine in tall timber. The three were about 10 miles from the town of Gold Beach, roughly 330 miles south-southwest of Portland.

[Sea Parrot]

Such stories to me all have one underlying factor as to cause and effect, gross stupidity.

Man may think he has evolved and changed in modern times. But nature remains unchanged and completely indifferent to such claptrap.

For the unprepared, nature will continue to kill the same as it has done since the dawn of man.

[DBrow]

Plus they ditched their foraging gear along the way! I bet these guys are not bragging about their weekend.

[Sea Parrot]

To paraphrase: Democracy, three humans and a dog voting on what to eat.

[driftdiver]

If they don’t know what they’re doing then its better for them to stay put. Especially with one person injured.

You cant starve to death in 6 days.

[Sea Parrot]

True, the not bad looking woman with a that creature, confirms she is an idiot for sure.

[allmendream]

Yes, being total idiots, with reduced mobility - it might well have been for the best that they stayed where they were.

For those of us who are self reliant and don't want to sit around for several days waiting to be rescued while less than a day's travel from rescuing yourself - self rescue, to me, will always be the more attractive option.

[org.whodat]

That was my guess, looks like they have had more than one hit of crack.

[SW6906]

Chanterelles are ~August through November/December at the very latest. I’ve never seen ones that aren’t all slimy by this time of year.

[allmendream]

My hope is that any moron who gets themselves lost in the woods less than a mile from where they parked, and then decides that the entire forest has to burn so that they can save their own rather worthless life - that the fire burns, at a minimum, their own car that they were less than a mile from - and at a maximum - them.

Here is the kind of idiot who lights a signal fire that burns down more than the idiots life was worth, and killed 15 innocent people.....

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cedar_Fire

The Cedar Fire was started by Sergio Martinez of West Covina, California who claimed he was hunting in the area and had become lost (for a single afternoon). At first he claimed the fire was started accidentally by a gunshot but later said he started the fire to signal rescuers. Martinez was charged on October 7, 2004 in federal court with setting the fire and lying about it.[12] On March 10, 2005, Martinez pleaded guilty to deliberately setting fire to timber in the plea bargain under which the charge of lying to a federal officer was dropped

Parenthetical remark my own.

[Inyo-Mono]

Seriously, there are very few places you’re likely to be that you couldn’t pick a direction and walk to find a road.

I live in one of the "few places" and even if you do find a road, could be days before a car comes along.

[wbill]

LOL!!!! “If the bear was as scared as I was, then that water’s not fit to drink.”

[PeteB570]

Ran into a couple on the Uwharrie Trail last year about 1 1/2 hours before sun down.

Flip flops and one water bottle.

I asked them if they knew where they were. “Dutchman's Trail” “No you're on the Uwharrie Trail. It's marked with white paint, the Dutchman with yellow.”

I showed them where they were on the park map I picked up at the kiosk at the Ranger Station - and gave it to them.

Their plan was to hike the 8 1/2 miles +/- back around to the parking lot by sundown. Oh, well. But they did have a lighter - smokers.

[gundog]

Edible mushrooms. Ya don’t look for Magic Mushrooms in old growth forest.

[Dr.Zoidberg]

A week? A fricking week and they were ready to slaughter the dog?

Two weeks and they’d have been ready to sup on long pork.

[Ditter]

Here on the Gulf Coast I get small red mushrooms in my yard in Sept. Larger gray/white mushrooms in the spring. I know there are eatable mushrooms in our area because I knew of someone who picked them, but I would never even try that.

[IMR 4350]

Look at their pictures.

I think they were eating the mushrooms, which is why they couldn’t find their butts with both hands.

[Alice in Wonderland]

Interesting that between the three of them they didn't have anything to build a fire with.

So they were going to eat their pet dog raw and uncooked.

[going hot]

Gold beach is a small town on the coast, just up from the border. There is a small body of water just to the west, called the pacific ocean. There is a black top 3 lane highway that runs along this small body of water. Given they were lost for what, a week, seems they could have simply headed west.

[BfloGuy]

My question is why didn’t they eat mushrooms?

Evidently they were about as good at finding mushrooms as they were at navigation.

[Dusty Road]

As someone who was raised in that area I disagree, the moment you feel like your lost start a fire and I mean a big one, do everything you can to draw attention to yourself. If the lives of my wife and children were at stake I’ll set a moutain on fire, they will find us!