Syracuse.com - Tennessee squirrel hunter gets lost, survives in wild eating worms and drinking muddy water

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He was missing for for five days. as colleagues combed the dense woods of a 13,000-acre state park looking for him.

I don't make this stuff up. The following is from the Reuters.com Web site:

(Reuters) - A Tennessee lawman who got lost while squirrel hunting survived his five-day ordeal on worms and muddy water as colleagues combed the dense woods of a 13,000-acre state park looking for him.

"I would like to start by thanking the good Lord above, without him I would not have made it out alive," Bill Lawrence said in a statement issued by the Tipton County Sheriff's Office, where he works as a corrections officer.

....He started out with "a shotgun, 15 shells, two bottles of water, a flashlight, a full can of Deep Woods off, a squirrel call and a can of dip."

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One lucky fellow to be alive.