Stuck in the mud update

Following up yesterday's post on 8 young people stuck in the mud up in the Angeles National Forest, I watched a Fox 11 news cast (follow link and click on video) on it last night. Great opening:

"Eating cake frosting out of a can and gummi worms- that is all the food they had- one group of friends thought they were going to be rescued by another group of friends...."

Some how that seems a little over-dramatic..... I mean if you are stuck overnight do you really have to eat that badly? I imagine you'd be kind of hungry, but come on. It reminds me of the South Park episode where several of the town members are stuck inside waiting out a storm for several hours and they resort to cannibalism because they haven't eaten since lunch.

In all fairness to the seriousness of the event, though, apparently the car became surrounded by bees, the group had no water, and one of the teens was diabetic and had no insulin.

Ultimately the county sent out a chopper for the rescue, although I am not sure whether they were actually evacuated by it. One "survivor" described seeing the helicopter like this.

"Once you see that chopper man, you're like 'Thank God!'"

I think there are a couple of lessons to be learned from this, but they are so obvious I will refrain from writing them out.