Bowie Student Trapped 8 Days Details Pain, Survival Tactics

[Nomad559]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/09/10/AR2007091002492.html?hpid=topnews

As Julian McCormick recalls it, he lay in and out of consciousness for eight days and seven nights, hot, sticky and bloody with not a clue as to what day it was or how he ended up trapped in his overturned car at the bottom of a steep embankment in Prince George's County.

To survive, he ate a fish he caught with his hands and used his high-top sneaker to drink water from the creek, the 18-year-old Bowie State University student told his parents.

When he finally was able to muster the strength, he cut his seat belt using a small knife he had in his car, forced his door open and then dragged himself by his elbows, his body racked with pain, 30 feet up to the shoulder of the road hoping that someone would see him and rescue him. Someone did.

"We've got him back, and we are so glad!" his ecstatic mother said yesterday in an interview. "He's doing great."

[hootinholler]

1. kick. n/t

[Catherine Vincent]

2. These are the stories I love reading about. What a happy ending.

It's sad that no one saw that the car had flipped over underneath the bridge. I am happy for him and his family.

[BlooInBloo]

3. Score!

[malaise]

4. I saw this on MSNBC

What a lovely story. Bet he watches discovery and those survival programs.

If he was rich he would have been found days ago.