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Trapped in his car, he survived one week eating tacos sauce.
[10/12/2002 06:49]
CHARLESTON, Western Virginia (AP) -- a man trapped during nearly one week in 
his broken car and fallen into a ravine succeeded in surviving the intense cold 
by burning paper, while dissolving snow to have water and by nourishing sauce 
sachets which one uses in fast foods.
Robert Ward, 32 years, fractured a hip in the accident and could not get out of 
his car. He was found Sunday by his friend Terry Likens, captain of the fire 
station where Ward was himself voluntary within the medical service. "I do not 
think that he could have spent one night more", Likens said. "He said to us 
when we found him that he was prepared to fall asleep for the last time. He was 
about to give up ". After having undergone an operation, Robert Ward was in a 
serious state in a hospital of Huntington. He has frostbites on his two feet. 
Ward was within three kilometers of any habitation when his car left the road 
on 2nd of December. The car made a dive of 45 meters before running up against 
a tree, destroying the lights and the hooter. A few days later, the area 
underwent its first great fall of snow of the season and the temperatures 
remained under zero during several days. To try to be heated, Ward cut the 
inner covering of the roof of the car to make a cover of it, explained Likens. 
He also burned pages of his medical handbook. He dissolved snow to be able to 
drink. As for the food, he only had an old pot of peanut butter and small bags 
of tacos sauce which one serves in the Tex-Mex restaurants. "It is a car of 
single person. You can find a bit of everything in it", noted Likens. 
Volunteers of two fire stations, police officers, employees of the service of 
National Forestry Commission as of the minors excavated the area. A mining 
company even used a helicopter to facilitate search. 
Sunday, as Likens and another volunteer scanned the ravine using binoculars, 
Ward heard their car and their voices and started to yell. 
"He asked us to grip him to see whether it was not a dream", Likens said.
AP

So ... you only need a book (ARRL Handbook should be OK), some bags of sauce 
and a car with some inner covering and you are safe!
But you are safe if and only if you are alone in your car ! Pse avoid taking 
any YL hitchhiker before having an accident otherwhise, you are lost : she will 
eat the sauce and will take the new made cover for herself !

72!
Claude