Support Search and Rescue - get lost! - Florida edition
If it wasn't for bad luck, I wouldn't have no
luck at all...
From the
Orlando Sentinel:
Airboat tourists stranded overnight in Everglades
An airboat tourist and his attempted rescue party were stranded in the Everglades overnight and found Monday morning, according to the Broward Sheriff's Office.
Michael Ballard, a resident of Avon Park in Central Florida in his 50s, separated from a group airboat tour sometime before 8:30 p.m.
Lt. Fred North, from the Broward Sheriff's Office, and Wesley Mosser, a member of the tour, went out to look for Ballard later Sunday evening, but ran out of gas once they located him five miles out into the Everglades, officials said.
A rescue helicopter later found the missing party, but patchy fog and thick brush prevented another rescue team from reaching the men until sunrise, said North.
The group used flashlights to ward off alligators and Ballard covered himself with a raincoat to ward off mosquitoes. North and the other would-be rescue member had to rough the exposure and were badly bitten by bugs, officials said. No medical care was required, they added.
In a year or so, once selective amnesia kicks in, this will be a great story to tell people but now? Bleagh! (I really hate mosquitoes)
Posted by DaveH at January 1, 2008 6:46 PM
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