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#248518 - 07/13/12 11:31 PM Autistic Man Survives Hike in Desert
Pete Offline
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Registered: 02/20/09
Posts: 704
Hey .. what are we talking about?
This guy made it a loooong way.

Someone please send me the name of his guardian angel.
I need to sign up.
Hahahahaha !!!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-18833812

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#248524 - 07/14/12 02:53 AM Re: Autistic Man Survives Hike in Desert [Re: Pete]
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Registered: 04/05/07
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I'm happy for him and his family that he is OK. Sign me up too for his guardian angel's service.
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#248528 - 07/14/12 05:20 AM Re: Autistic Man Survives Hike in Desert [Re: GarlyDog]
leemann Offline
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Registered: 02/08/04
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Loc: somewhere near here.
Thats what the local news had on the lucky man.

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#248532 - 07/14/12 11:09 AM Re: Autistic Man Survives Hike in Desert [Re: Pete]
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Registered: 04/28/10
Posts: 1108
Loc: Great Plains
Maybe he should buy a Powerball ticket. But my guess is that he's used up that kind of luck. Gods, demons and saints aside, autistic or not he seemed to have some pretty canny survival instincts.

I hope he fully recovers from his ordeal. He's provided a lot "gist for the mill" that we'll be digesting for some time!
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#248534 - 07/14/12 12:34 PM Re: Autistic Man Survives Hike in Desert [Re: Phaedrus]
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Registered: 08/26/06
Posts: 3509
Loc: southern Cal
Of course he had plenty of water - the Escalante is a permanent stream, although I believe it's original name was the "Dirty Devil" (courtesy of John Wesley Powell). Survival is considerably easier in the desert if you have adequate water.....
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#248551 - 07/14/12 06:23 PM Re: Autistic Man Survives Hike in Desert [Re: Pete]
Chisel Offline
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Registered: 12/05/05
Posts: 991
Interesting :

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/20...am-lafever.html


I didn't really understand why he thought only autistic people will stay near water !!! I can't think of anyone in a desert who would wander away from water.

But the more ineteresting thing I noticed about William after he was rescued, is that he wanted "to talk" as much as he wanted to eat and drink. I wonder whether a survival situation like this may have a positive impact on an autistic person.

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#248566 - 07/14/12 10:17 PM Re: Autistic Man Survives Hike in Desert [Re: Pete]
dougwalkabout Offline
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Registered: 02/03/07
Posts: 2096
Loc: Alberta, Canada
Glad he made it out alive, despite the odds.

Sad about the dog though.

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