I read a more recent story today; it seems his co-workers reported him missing first thing Tuesday morning and searchers had been looking for him for three days; this contradicts the initial story that "the search had only started that morning". Also, according to the later story, he was a bit of a maverick, so it may be that he had previous history of taking the day off without phoning in. That's just speculation on my part of course, but it appears his co-workers were reasonably prompt in notifying the authorities and the original story got it wrong. (That so rarely happens, of course <img src="images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" /> )