LOST DRIVER SPENDS 18 DAYS LOST IN OUTBACK

A man missing for two and a half weeks in the Australian bush has been found alive. Police had launched an extensive search for 58-year-old Robert Weber, who was last seen with his dog leaving a hotel in Kilkivan, Queensland, on January 6, but called off the rescue mission after a week. Weber was discovered on Sunday morning – 18 days after he was last seen – by a property owner who spotted him near a dam. Mr. Weber said he became lost after trying to avoid bumper to bumper traffic, so he turned off the road to go up a mountain and come down the other side. But his car became stuck on a road he was unfamiliar with, and he stayed at his car with his dog for three days, before running out of water. He took off on foot and became lost, so he stayed by a dam where he survived by sleeping on the ground, drinking dam water and eating mushrooms. Weber was taken to a hospital after suffering from exposure, but is otherwise “safe and well,” though his dog has not been found.
* The dog left ’cause three days is about all anybody can take of Mr. Weber.
* That’s what they tell you when you’re lost: stay in your dam place until they find you.
* The only weird part was, after he started eating the mushrooms, Mr. Weber was pretty sure he was stuck on Neptune.
* 18 days in the Outback. I once spent 7 hours in a Waffle House.