Tsunami Survivor Found After 25 Days

[truthpusher]

http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/world/wire/sns-ap-india-tsunami-survivor%2C0%2C6802469.story?coll=sns-ap-world-headlines

Tsunami Survivor Found After 25 Days

By NEELESH MISRA
Associated Press Writer

January 22, 2005, 7:53 AM EST

PORT BLAIR, India -- Waving a flag made of his clothes, a tsunami victim dressed only in his underwear was rescued after surviving alone for 25 days on a flattened island in India's Andaman and Nicobar archipelago, authorities said Saturday.

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Hope has run out for the untraced people. But on Saturday, officials on Campbell Bay island reported that a Nicobarese man named Michael Mangal had been spotted on deserted Pillow Panja island on Jan. 19, wearing underwear and waving a cloth made from the rest of his clothes.

Mangal was sucked into the sea when the first tsunami wave retreated, but an even bigger second wave dumped him back on the shore. However, he found that no one else had survived from his village, a local government statement said.

Injured and desperate, he survived for the next 25 days only on coconuts before being rescued, it said.

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[Dookus]

1. That's amazing

I can't even open a coconut with a hammer, a chisel and a hacksaw.

[Spinzonner]

2. Obviously not Zen enough

Be the hammer, not the anvil

or some other stupid metaphor ...

[mike_c]

5. easy way to open a coconut....

Hit the husked nut with the back of a knife, cleaver, etc. Even a butter knife will do. So will banging it against the edge of a rock. You don't have to hit it very hard. Rotate and repeat. Do this several times, and a crack will develop. A couple more whacks along the crack and the nut will fall into two halves.

on edit:

The right way:




The wrong way:

[Elidor]

6. That's nothing

One of those tsunami survivors opened a coconut with his TEETH. Sort of redefines "hungry."

[mike_c]

7. now that's tough....

eom

[Spinzonner]

9. Of course THAT survivor was a squirrel ...

[truthpusher]

11. The wrong way is wearing a Charlie Parker shirt?, I'm confused?

[bahrbearian]

12. That has got to be the wrong way,,,,a Ryobi,, were's the Dewalt

[SpiralHawk]

13. He shoud have just got himself a machete

and done them cocos up right. Sho 'nuff.

The last thing we need is an outpouring of sympathy for a man who forgot to plan ahead for the disaster, and thus failed to pack a machete for the inevitable -- if I may be prosaic -- coconuts apres tsunami.

[aquart]

3. Coconuts saved most of those lone survivors.

We do not sufficiently appreciate the coconut.

[Spinzonner]

4. Now you've done it

someone will start a Non-discrimination organization for coconuts

[SpiralHawk]

14. Coconuts have their place in the overall scheme of things

Most people would agree.



-- If we do not wakefully intend,
we are subconsciously compelled --

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

15. Let us take a moment for the coconut.

[Lone_Star_Dem]

8. He had an amazing will to survive

What a story, 25 days wounded, living off of coconuts and all alone.

[montana_hazeleyes]

10. That is amazing,

and to think, carrying with him the grief that his whole village is gone.