survival
A 13-year-old boy in Marissa, Illinois survived being sucked a half-mile down a storm drain during a flood that took place in the state this past weekend. “It was raining, and we were just out here playing — I was going to grab a ball and went underneath,” said the teen, Sebastian Calderon, according to WGN. “When I first […]
A Minnesota man is on the road to recovery after surviving more than four days trapped under a tree. On Monday, the Redwood County Sheriff’s Office confirmed authorities had rescued 59-year-old Jonathan Ceplecha, who had been missing since Aug. 27. The sheriff’s office says the school teacher and Army veteran was cutting down trees on his property when […]
Cast Away could’ve been a lot shorter. Three men were rescued from a small Pacific island after drawing a massive SOS signal in the sand that was spotted from the air, authorities told the Associated Press. The men were stranded on Pikelot Island—an uninhabited spot in the Micronesia archipelago—for nearly three days before searchers on an Australian […]
As one should unfortunately come to expect in times like these when residing in the United States, sales of guns and survival gear (and related tomfoolery) have spiked enough to warrant a swath of headlines. For example, Jacob Long of Widener’s Reloading and Shooting Supply—an online shop offering supplies of the reloading and shooting variety, […]
In his 2004 standup special Never Scared, Chris Rock explained the difference between wealthy and rich. “Shaq is rich, but the white man who signs his check is wealthy,” Rock famously joked. As the coronavirus cases continue to pile up across the globe, the rich are finding a way to rough it with us normal folks while the wealthy are […]
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