A very inventive way of spending Labor Day weekend:
A jogger missing for four days was found stuck in a waist-deep swamp near the University of Central Florida.Eddie Meadows was forced to drink swamp water to keep hydrated during the four day ordeal. The 62-year-old left to run at lunchtime Thursday but never returned to his office at a nearby university research park, authorities said. A UCF police dog found Meadows parched and covered with bug bites on Monday.
Some people would pay good money for a real, honest-to-God adventure like that.
Posted by floridacracker at September 5, 2006 09:15 AMJust what was he doing off the beaten path to find himself in that predicament?
I'm just asking because of long ago youthful adventures around the Tampa area swamps.
He really had to do something silly to get stuck like that.
Man, UCF sounds like a swinging place. I think I would have put a note on a passing tumbleweed and hope it blew back toward civilization.
Posted by: B Moe at September 5, 2006 06:46 PMI don't think he'd have lasted long on the crew of those Ft. Myers boys who waded and hacked the Tamiami Trail clean through the Everglades.
Posted by: Donnah at September 6, 2006 11:55 AM