Posted on 12/05/2006 9:18:33 AM PST by george76
Your wrong. They found an extra pair of pants. The pants they found were grey. He is wearing blue jeans. He left the spare pants as a marker.
Get your facts before you start diagnosing medical conditions!
In fact finding the pants is the most positive thing that has happened since finding the family.
It is a sign of life. As long as we find signs of life there is still hope.
Didn't this same thing happen in the same area about a year ago?
Same road...just this past winter in the Feb-Mar 2006 time-frame. The searchers never thought the RV went as far as they did on the road. Two people left the family and found help. If they all had stayed with the RV who knows what would have happened.
However having the RV is a big help in this type of situation. They were there for a long time. Weeks and weeks.
" They are now reporting the trackers found a pair of pants that belonged to James Kim."
Not good.
He also apparently has no hat and no gloves in freezing temperatures...
He could have used these pants ?
We are all pulling for the guy.
Hopefully, the searchers will find him soon.
Yes, and apparenlty it happens there very frequently.
I can personally recommend this guy. He'll sell you a kit, sure, but what he has to say is perhaps even more important.
It's also cheaper to make your own kit.
http://www.equipped.com/
Good!
There's a backup power adapter for cell phones that uses two AA batteries. My mom got it at Wal*Mart.
:)
BTW...I didn't mean to chomp...it is just so many people on these threads seem eager to write this poor guy off.
Drives me nuts...
No problem!
No offense taken.
Yep, but those people didn't want to be found...a little thing about warrants...
Yep, but those people didn't want to be found...a little thing about warrants...
Yes that is true...isn't that interesting how that works out...lol.
What ever happened were they finally prosecuted? Wasn't is something in New Mexico or AZ?
Something about warrants due to the illegal use of drugs. The parents really didn't want to see the cops...I laughed for a day on that one.
We live in Phoenix and every time we watched a show where a guy was wanted it seemed like he was last seen in Arizona, in Phoenix in particular. Must be lots of good places to hide here...
If this guy is eating snow for thirst, there aint much chance he is alive. Eating to much snow in cold weather will lower your body temp. If he stays moving HARD during the day he might have a fighting chance. That, and he must make shelter at night..out of tree boughs and such. But, I doubt they have seen any sign of such as they would have said so if they would have found such shelters. I fear the man slipped into the river and drowned or has froze to death. I give him a less than 30% chance at this time.
Still, it is possible..
If he dropped these pants to mark the spot he went in, it was a big mistake. It tells me he doesnt know as much as they are saying about the woods. You mark with a tree limb or something. You never discard anything that would help you to survive. Those drawers could'a been torn to cover his head and wrap his feet and hands-the three most important areas of heat loss, especially the head. In cold weather, if you keep your head and feet warm you can sustain in cold weather quite a long time. The hands can be kept a tad warm by flailing your arms across your back driving the warmth down to the hands.
A serious mountain person might leave some signs if he wanted to be tracked later by others.
Small rock piles, rocks arranged in an arrow fashion, marking trees, breaking branches...would be useful.
Leaving pants when one does not have a hat nor gloves is not a good sign. ( It is also not helpful that the local sheriff professes this as a 'sign.' )
Second, I do not know why he did not build a large fire on the road near his car. He had nine days to find dry branches, small dead trees...so he had lots of fuel for a 24 hour, every day and night fire.
The smoke could have been seen during the day by passing airplanes and the flames at night. Plus he could have used the fire for warmth instead of draining the car's gas.
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