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Posted: 6/30/2015 9:08:41 AM EDT
http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2015/06/29/woman-starts-forest-fire-in-desperate-attempt-to-get-help-after-giving-birth-in-plumas-national-forest/

A woman gets lost driving, runs out of gas, and stranded in an area with no cell service. Oh yeah, she was 9 months pregnant and in labor. After several days, she starts a Forest fire and is rescued.

The real interesting part are the comments. Extreme cases of anger at the woman + defenses of her.

Eta: title made Mr. Gump look bad. Edited for clarity.
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Smart
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I find myself strangely ok with it.
Link Posted: 6/30/2015 9:54:59 AM EDT
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Glad that didn't back fire, no pun intended. Her and her baby could have died had the wind changed but she still made the right call.
Link Posted: 6/30/2015 9:55:42 AM EDT
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Will they charge her with the felony arson?
Link Posted: 6/30/2015 9:58:30 AM EDT
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"In a medical emergency, I will leave the main road, and just take a shortcut through unfamiliar Forest Service roads..."

..said no smart person, ever.
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I thought that was General Sherman's thing, not General Forrest.
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I don't know how this lady and her baby will survive. Yes, they made it out of the woods, but the amount of stupidity (progressive education) this woman is filled up with, she has to be a ward of the state to survive.

1) Driving alone when she is about to go into labor.

2) Labor starts, then takes a back road she has never traveled.

3) To an area where there is no cell service and no people. I would bet money she at least once said, "The cell phone will be good for emergencies."

4) Runs out of gas. (my tank stays full with obama in office, let alone being pregnant)

5) Could not get away from the placenta.

6) Took 3 days to figure out how to light a fire, but started a forest fire. (could not stomp out the fire when small, with the placenta she probably put in her pocket, I now assume).

Look how dysfunctional progressive education has made this woman. I don't think she could survive if she is not a ward of the state.
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Yeah...she's apparently a big fan of the Memphis mayor...



 
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I live a sheltered life. Meat bees?

Aka yellow jacket, I've never heard them called that before.

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Don't forget that she was running out of gas.
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If anyone needs a laugh, find French Creek Rd in Plumas NF, and now imagine thinking that's a good shortcut from the Oroville-Quincy "Highway" over to Highway 70 if you've never traveled on those roads.
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I've always wondered why these guys who are lost in the woods for weeks and on the brink of death never do this.
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She set Forrest on fire? Did he survive?

Forest   = thing with trees in it
Forrest = some dude's name
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If anyone needs a laugh, find French Creek Rd in Plumas NF, and now imagine thinking that's a good shortcut from the Oroville-Quincy "Highway" over to Highway 70 if you've never traveled on those roads.
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Oh wow that is bad...  There is almost no chance of getting that one right on the first try on a car that is almost out of gas.
Link Posted: 6/30/2015 10:23:07 AM EDT
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It would have been a perfect feel good story to make a movie until the end when she fucked up and was charged with arson.

Meat bees on her placenta?
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I've always wondered why these guys who are lost in the woods for weeks and on the brink of death never do this.
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What, deliver their own babies?
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Mommy sounds like a dipshit. If the kid survives past the age of two Ill be surprised.
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getting lost - fail

Setting fire to anything that will burn - WIN
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Oh wow that is bad...  There is almost no chance of getting that one right on the first try on a car that is almost out of gas.
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If anyone needs a laugh, find French Creek Rd in Plumas NF, and now imagine thinking that's a good shortcut from the Oroville-Quincy "Highway" over to Highway 70 if you've never traveled on those roads.

Oh wow that is bad...  There is almost no chance of getting that one right on the first try on a car that is almost out of gas.

I'd take my chances with handing the compass to 2LT Ray Charles on a Land Nav course than rolling the dice on those FS roads!  Holy shit.
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"In a medical emergency, I will leave the main road, and just take a shortcut through unfamiliar Forest Service roads..."



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Thank goodness someone finally "seen" them.





 
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That would be uncommon.

If the fire was substantial, they would have mentioned x number of acres burned.  BTDT with a local SAR.  They guy was found after being lost for a week when he finally decided to light a signal fire.  2 acres were burned when he lost control of his signal fire.  The firefighters didn't need help cutting breaks, and actually turned back emergent volunteers, but the OMG-Outrage! comments called for the guy to be drawn-quartered-fined-beaten-fined-again for the fire, a fire that was a non-issue.
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It would have been a perfect feel good story to make a movie until the end when she fucked up and was charged with arson.



Meat bees on her placenta?
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Apparently the idea of carrying it away from the vehicle never crossed her mind.



 
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Thank goodness someone finally "seen" them.

 
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"In a medical emergency, I will leave the main road, and just take a shortcut through unfamiliar Forest Service roads..."

..said no smart person, ever.

Thank goodness someone finally "seen" them.

 

"Lucky I aint nearly not seen em through them swarm of dem durn meat bees. Thut holler is durn thick, even in winters"
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What about the guy that got lost in Canada, came across a power line and cut a power pole down, I assume with an ax.
It knocked out a buttload of people's electricity and they sent a crew out to find the problem and found him.
Link Posted: 6/30/2015 10:45:01 AM EDT
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I value the life of a child more than a few trees.



Good fire.
Link Posted: 6/30/2015 10:46:29 AM EDT
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The shortcut: 1h 23min

The regular way: 1hr 8min

And the regular way goes pas the hospital.
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Hey if I was lost with my baby and no food I'd shoot Teddy Roosevelt's nose off Mount Rushmore with a rocket launcher if I had one, but there are more WTFs in that story than anything posted in GD before
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No shit, seems like a stereotypical fictional story about some hag in WV.
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Apparently the idea of carrying it away from the vehicle never crossed her mind.
 
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It would have been a perfect feel good story to make a movie until the end when she fucked up and was charged with arson.

Meat bees on her placenta?

Apparently the idea of carrying it away from the vehicle never crossed her mind.
 



In her string of excellent decisions I'm quite sure she never thought to find something sharp enough to cut the umbilical cord so the placenta likely stayed attached.  Not a harmful choice, really, aside from the whole meat bee thing.
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If anyone needs a laugh, find French Creek Rd in Plumas NF, and now imagine thinking that's a good shortcut from the Oroville-Quincy "Highway" over to Highway 70 if you've never traveled on those roads.
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That would be tough for the first time without having a map and/or GPS.   There are plenty of ways to get lost.
Link Posted: 6/30/2015 10:57:18 AM EDT
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Oh, it's all good because she's incredibly stupid, huh?  For the children, let's not hold anyone accountable for their actions.
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I live a sheltered life. Meat bees?

Aka yellow jacket, I've never heard them called that before.

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Every deer or pig I clean in Ga seems to bring them in. That's what we call them "meat bees".
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Tough lady...
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Link Posted: 6/30/2015 11:49:46 AM EDT
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Pregnant woman missing for three days?  My 1st thought was why didn't the husband or her place of work get worried and start looking for her?
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She did the right thing. Even if they give her an arson charge. She will have a child that lived.
Link Posted: 6/30/2015 1:12:21 PM EDT
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I've always said that if you get lost in the wilderness,  just start a forest fire. No matter where you are the DNR will show up and give you a ticket and then rescue you.
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I find myself strangely ok with it.
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People > Trees

Did what she had to do.




I find myself strangely ok with it.

Link Posted: 6/30/2015 1:28:33 PM EDT
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A couple died up in Southern Oregon doing the exact same shit in the middle of winter.

Yeah...use a forest road in the winter time...died.....all of them.
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Apparently the idea of carrying it away from the vehicle never crossed her mind.
 
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It would have been a perfect feel good story to make a movie until the end when she fucked up and was charged with arson.

Meat bees on her placenta?

Apparently the idea of carrying it away from the vehicle never crossed her mind.
 

I'm guessing she couldn't figure out how to even sever the cord
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