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This guy died down the road from me
by fogtender (movies profile)
Jul 13, 2008
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He was an idiot that had every intention of getting himself killed. He gave everything away before he came to Alaska with that intention. The bus that he died in is where many of us go to camp out in during hunting season, and I have been to it many times before and after his death.
If he wanted to be saved, all he had to do was build a signal fire. I fly over the bus all the time as do most Alaskan Pilots going from Fairbanks to Anchorage. He had an average of twenty to thirty planes a day fly over at less than a couple of thousand feet above him. At that level, anyone could have see a fire and reported it. The bus had enough rubber still to put out a really black cloud of smoke that could be seen for miles.
He tipifies the normal "City" person that comes to the wilderness and thinks they know everything, when they in fact know nothing.
People see this movie and think they gain insite to what it is like to be here standing outside of my doorstep. Wilderness is just that "Wild-Ness" and can kill those that are not prepaired.
The book was a best seller in NY, but didn't sell but a few copies in Alaska because everyone here knew it was bogus. The diary he kept was spiced up to match his imagination as he wrote it sitting there waiting to die. |
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