Man Peed Way Out of Avi

[SkiersLeft]

Freakin unreal. Slovak guy goes on 'holiday', gets buried in his car, drinks 60 beers, and pees his way to freedom. Bizare and creepy yet humorous all at the same time.

http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_1261997.html?menu

Man peed way out of avalanche

A Slovak man trapped in his car under an avalanche freed himself by drinking 60 bottles of beer and urinating on the snow to melt it.

Rescue teams found Richard Kral drunk and staggering along a mountain path four days after his Audi car was buried in the Slovak Tatra mountains.

He told them that after the avalanche, he had opened his car window and tried to dig his way out.

But as he dug with his hands, he realised the snow would fill his car before he managed to break through.

He had 60 half-litre bottles of beer in his car as he was going on holiday, and after cracking one open to think about the problem he realised he could urinate on the snow to melt it, local media reported.

He said: "I was scooping the snow from above me and packing it down below the window, and then I peed on it to melt it. It was hard and now my kidneys and liver hurt. But I'm glad the beer I took on holiday turned out to be useful and I managed to get out of there."

Parts of Europe have this week been hit by the heaviest snowfalls since 1941, with some places registering more than ten feet of snow in 24 hours.

[Dr. Send]

Yeah, we know.

[TBone]

fo' real?

[hucksquaw]

rerun....

[runethechamp]

rerun....

times five

[Lone Star]

search function, jong

[Free Range Lobster]

noooooob

[Cornholio]

What the hell is a noob?

You just use that because you're too new yourself to know what JONG stands for.

[Mountain Junkie]

rerun....

and bs to boot.

[Cornholio]

and bs to boot.

Is it really? I thought I saw this story on a few reputable news sites.

[ScottG]

Snopes says undetermined:
http://www.snopes.com/media/notnews/avalanche.asp

Origins: The story about a Slovak man who was buried inside his car by an avalanche, and supposedly freed himself by drinking beer and urinating on the snow to melt it, was carried by a number of western news services in January 2005. The story has so far proved difficult to verify because its attributions have been vague (e.g., "correspondents in Bratislava"), and it evidently originated in a part of the world (the Slovak Republic) where information sources are more difficult to track down (particularly because the language is unfamiliar to most westerners).

However, a correspondent who works for a Slovak news agency informed us that not only has the avalanche story (or any news story about an avalanche) not appeared in the news media there, but the very same tale (of Czech origin, told about an unnamed man caught in the Austrian Alps) was circulating in that country as an e-mail joke even before the heavy snows described in the article occurred.

Last updated: 2 February 2005

You would think the locals would know about an amazing alcoholic feat like this.
I say BS.
And I said that the first time I read this story.

[gonzo]

now if you posted naked pictures of your sister, we all could probably get over the whole re-run thing. mmmmkay?

[summit]

DUUUUUPE!

get both, i like pie