Man Eats Rotting Meat (and dirt) While Trapped 4 Days

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Man Eats Rotting Meat While Trapped 4 Days

http://www.thebostonchannel.com/news/15119152/detail.html

Man Pinned Under ATV In Frigid Temperatures

UPDATED: 11:36 am EST January 23, 2008

CROWSNEST PASS, Alberta --

For one Canadian paramedic, "survival mode" entailed eating dirt, warming himself with
dead beavers and fending off coyotes with a whistle. All the while, he was pinned under
an ATV for four days and three nights in frigid temperatures.

Ken Hildebrand was riding in Alberta bush country collecting animal traps when his ATV
hit a rock and rolled on his leg.



He said he kept himself alive by picking at the rotting beavers and eating dirt for moisture.

He said coyotes fought nearby, but he managed to keep them at bay with a whistle.

A hiker and his dog found Hildebrand in his fourth day, and he was taken to a hospital.

The ordeal may cost him his right foot, but one hospital official said it's amazing he survived at all.

The official said the only thing on Hildebrand's mind after the ordeal was that he would miss his
next paramedic shift.

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