BOY USES THE INDIANA-JONES-IN-A-REFRIGERATOR METHOD TO SURVIVE LANDSLIDE

An 11-year-old Filipino boy incredibly survived a landslide by taking refuge in a refrigerator. The youth, named CJ Jasme, had been at home with his family when a massive mudslide triggered by tropical rain inundated their house in Baybay City, Philippines, last Friday. CJ hopped in the family refrigerator – a small one just about his size. The scenario is not much different than Indiana Jones using a refrigerator to escape a nuclear explosion in “The Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.” CJ then spent the next 20 hours hunkered down inside his improvised storm shelter. A police officer spotted CJ in the fridge on a river bank, and rescue crews were able to lift the refrigerator out of the mud and transfer CJ onto a stretcher. He only suffered a broken leg during the ordeal. Unfortunately, his family wasn’t as lucky: the boy’s mother and younger sibling are still missing, while his father perished in another landslide a day prior. Although his 13-year-old brother is believed to have escaped the disaster.
* His brother survived by rolling under a rapidly closing stone door.
* I thought this was going to be a happy story, but at the end there, they sure pulled the ol’ switcheroo, huh?
* CJ’s rescuers are still arguing whether or not it’s possible to survive a mudslide in a refrigerator.
* The old refrigerator escape. Pretty cool.
* If I lived in a tropical country, it wouldn’t be on the side of a big dirt hill, but that’s just me.