This is the most French title I’ll read today. Did he have a baguette too? And, a striped shirt, and beret?
Seriously, glad he’s okay.
The baguette cushioned his fall and the striped shirt scared away any predators. The beret was just a beret, though. Even if you’ve fallen down a 130ft ravine that’s no excuse to look dowdy.
(None of this is true…probably)
The power of the beret protected his head
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NoneAll of this is true…probablydefinitely)
Was Waldo French?
I think it’s supposed to be black and white stripes 😅
It would be peak French if this happened while on the way to a protest.
With a pit stop at a cafe on the way for a coffee and a cigarette (breakfast).
You should read the article. It’s also incredibly French, lol.
Jacques Cousteau held his hand while he waited
Obviously. Those things are all mandatory over there.
I appreciate the man’s priorities: he fell 130 feet and managed to not break the wine bottles.
Well, no point wasting good wine lol
In 2023, a woman who went missing for five days in the Australian bushland was found alive after surviving for five days on lollipops and wine.
Yet another reminder to keep a stockpile of food and water in your abodes and cars just-in-case. I haven’t been stranded out and about yet, but there was a blizzard a few years ago that I was unprepared for and I nearly ran out of food.
Got stranded in the desert with my mother in law a couple years ago. She didn‘t make it.
I was pretty lucky though as I had quite a bit of meat in the car and survived the ordeal unharmed and in good spirits.
I’m surprised that it wasn’t tough and bitter.
🤣
You… ate her?
Always keep snacks in the cycle bag
I feel like three days isn’t enough time to die from the absence of wine, but then again I’m not French.
It’s just funny the way the headline is written. I’m assuming they meant more along the lines of “survives 3 days while drinking wine” not “survives 3 days by drinking wine” lol because unless you are starting out extremely dehydrated already, then a 3-day dry fast is absolutely not going to kill you.
Three to four days is the longest you can survive without water before you die. So he probably would have been dead or close to death without the wine.
??? 3 days without water can definitely be lethal
Well yeah, 10 minutes without water can definitely be lethal under the right circumstances too if you are already only 10 minutes away from dying from dehydration. I’m just saying that lying mostly still in a sunless ravine in autumn in France for 72 hours, while it’s raining, is not peak conditions for quick death from dehydration. And in any case, all I’m really saying is that claiming the guy survived by drinking the wine, meaning he would have otherwise died from dehydration, is not a supoortable conclusion and is just there to make the headline more fun.
“77-year old alcoholic falls off bike after visiting his dealer.” But seriously, ALWAYS add a bottle of wine when shopping for anything, people. #safetyfirst
130 foot is almost 40 meters.
Or about 3 school buses
Or 332 cans of cheese
Wine only? But no mention of Baguette and cigarettes? I don’t believe it.
It must not have been a Frenchman. A Quebecois maybe. They would fall of a cliff and only have wine.
My ass would’ve just pounded the bottle and said “this is how I go out” within the first hour.
It sounds more like he thrived for three days.
That’s the indomitable human spirit.
At 77, that’s amazing!
If you gotta be stuck somewhere, you might as well make the best of it.
Did he start drinking after falling down or before???
He sure did
How did the wine not dehydrate them?
Common misconception. Diuretics simply cause you to urinate more often. It does not necessarily mean you will urinate more than the water you are taking in. Coffee also falls into this category. The most known “don’t drink this or you’ll dehydrate” salt water will cause you to urinate more than the water you take in. Salt water is about 3.5% salt. Your kidneys can only function up to like 2%. This makes your body pull water from elsewhere to flush the excess salt out of your system.
Bullshit!
It’s still a net hydrator.
If it would have been somewhere else:
Day one:
Day three:
“I BeT tHe cYcliSt rAn tHe ReD LiGHt!”
That is the most french news headline I have read in a while
