Posted on 10/13/2015 7:47:21 AM PDT by smokingfrog
A 62-year-old recreational hunter lost in a hot and arid region of the Australian Outback survived without water for six days by eating ants, police said Tuesday.
Reg Foggerdy left a car driven by his brother late Wednesday in pursuit of a camel in the Great Victoria Desert in Western Australia state, Police Superintendent Andy Greatwood said.
After his brother alerted authorities, police trackers found the former miner sitting under a tree on Tuesday morning 15 kilometers (9 miles) from where he became lost.
“He just spent the last two days under a tree eating black ants and that sustained him,” Greatwood said. “When we found him, he was extremely dehydrated, disoriented and basically delusional.”
A paramedic immediately gave Foggerdy intravenous fluid and he recovered quickly.
“The good news is he was sitting up and talking,” Greatwood said.
Foggerdy was airlifted by the Royal Flying Doctor Service to the Kalgoorlie Hospital. He was admitted in stable condition, hospital spokesman Peter Cogan said.
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A little soy sauce helps.
Seriously i’m glad he made it, unforgiving country, will dispatch a wary newcomer rather quickly, i would have died i suspect.
Lucky man.
The will to survive will survive. Oftentimes.
Yes. You’d think he would have been better prepared.
Sounds like a spur of the moment ‘hey lemme chase that camel!’ event, not a planned excursion...
What’s Aussie for “Hold muh beer and watch this!”?
We get quail, roadrunners, bunnies and various squirrel varieties in the yard - and when my tree water bubblers turn on, none of those show the slightest interest in water; only the sparrows head for 'em.
Reg Foggerdy left a car driven by his brother late Wednesday in pursuit of a camel in the Great Victoria Desert
He should not have given his beer to his brother before chasing after a camel in the desert...
In pursuit of a camel????
I’m really disappointed in you guys. All this and not one single Crocodile Dundee reference. Hehehe. d;^)
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