Lost backpacker was 'total idiot'
Found on Ananova on Saturday, 18 July 2009
Jamie Neale, 19, told Australia's 60 Minutes television programme that he was "a total idiot" to venture unprepared into the Blue Mountains, 60 miles west of Sydney.
He said he ate seeds and weeds, and kept warm at night under strips of bark. He waved his blue shirt at circling helicopters, but the forest was so thick that he was not seen.
Two hikers happened upon Jamie last Wednesday. He spent two days in the hospital for treatment of dehydration and exposure.
Yes, Australia is not the UK. At least it knocked some common sense into an overconfident youngster. Even when you feel like you can easily conquer the world, a simple jungle may be your end just as easily.