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philip lewis @Phil_Lewis_ 8hA missing drunk man joined his own search party and helped look for himself for hours
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According to local media reports, Beyhan Mutlu, a 50-year-old man from a rural region in Turkey, was out drinking with his friends when he wandered off into a nearby forest and didnt return. Worried about him, his friends then alerted authorities, who set up a search and rescue mission to find him.
According to Turkish channel NTV, when news of the missing man got out, efforts to find him intensified in nearby neighbourhoods, with a large group of volunteers joining the mission. This search party was calling out Mutlus name for hours when suddenly a man from within the group spoke up and reportedly said: Who are we looking for? I am here."
It is unclear how Mutlu found himself in his own search party or how his friends didnt realise that he was right under their nose the whole time. Police were able to safely escort Mutlu to his home.
This isnt the first time a missing person joined their own rescue mission. In 2012, an Asian tourist who went missing in Iceland was also found in her own search party after she reportedly failed to recognise her own description.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/jg87wg/missing-drunk-man-spent-hours-helping-a-search-party-look-for-himself
Demovictory9
(32,449 posts)Skittles
(153,150 posts)Rhiannon12866
(205,237 posts)The latest news from my neck-of-the-woods was a second wrong-way driver causing a crash on the local highway...
NJCher
(35,658 posts)A guy killed in his own driveway by getting run over by his drugged up nephew.
Rhiannon12866
(205,237 posts)And yes, the first wrong-way driver was drunk and is now in jail. The second story just appeared, but if I had to bet... It's really tough to get on the wrong side of that highway with all the WRONG WAY signs...
csziggy
(34,136 posts)The teacher was showing up how to handle "big" highways - in my small town, that meant the four lane bypass with an overpass over the railroad. The student driver turned onto the bypass and as we approached the overpass, there comes a car going the wrong way over the top. The student driver freaked but the teacher told them to just get into the lane the wrong way car was not in and keep going.
We all survived but it was freaky for all of us in the car - usually there were two non-driving students in the back seat, the teacher in the front passenger seat, and of course the student driver at the wheel. I was one of the kids in the back seat, thank you very much!
Rhiannon12866
(205,237 posts)Sounds like you had an experienced teacher! I actually took Driver's Ed twice, once when I was away at boarding school, but there were only 6 behind-the-wheel sessions and so I never had a chance to practice. I did better when I took it at home, turns out that the instructor was my 9th grade Social Studies teacher and so he already knew me. My issues were telling left from right, made a left turn when I was told to turn right, but I still passed on my first try, even though my grandmother was the only one with the courage to take me to practice.
And I once headed the wrong way up a highway ramp when I was driving in a place I'd never been before. Then suddenly there was a truck headed right towards me, so I immediately backed up - and pulled over at the first rest stop on the highway until I stopped shaking...
jaxexpat
(6,820 posts)PM is where a conversation becomes tangled in the misunderstanding of what the subject actually is.
First version, The Instruction: Everybody listen, We're looking for John Doe.
Second version, The Conversation: What did he say?..... We're looking for him...... Who?..... Him!..... Oh, okay.
You will note how the second version has completely removed poor John Doe from the narrative. A state where he will stubbornly remain for several critical hours.
Replaced by the insidious informal "pronoun", our John goes amok. A text book case of PM. It must be fought because it must stop. It's crippling the commonwealth. Every school boy knows that in any conversation the primary subject should be properly identified at least twice before devolving into the common usage, then repeated again in closing. Qwerty was a damn fool and a disgrace to the regiment.
The whole previous monologue should be as if read by the narrator guy from "The Rocky Horror Picture Show". Sure it's early, but my meds wore off, so what else is there?
NJCher
(35,658 posts)To self awareness.
Funny story.