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Man Survives in Swamp for 4 Days
Topic Started: Jun 5 2010, 12:58 PM (244 Views)
MRN
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(June 5) -- A 22-year-old recent college graduate has been found alive -- having survived on swamp water -- four days after his car careened off the side of an upstate New York highway.

Thomas Wopat-Moreau had been last seen at a party near Albany on Saturday night. He was driving his mother's 2005 BMW station wagon home to her house when he vanished in the early hours of Sunday. Police believe he swerved to avoid hitting a deer, but hit a guard rail instead -- sending the car flying into a wooded area 500 feet from the highway.

He'd just graduated from the College of William and Mary, and was due to start a new job at Barclay's Bank in Manhattan on Tuesday. But he never showed up.
Thomas Wopat-Moreau found alive, four days after the car crash.
Lance Wheeler, AP
New York state investigators at the accident site near Gallatin, N.Y., where Thomas D. Wopat-Moreau's car flipped over. Wopat-Moreau, who had been missing since early Sunday morning, was found alive Thursday.

After an exhaustive four-day search spearheaded by the young man's mother, state troopers were able to find Wopat-Moreau by tracking the fading signal from his cell phone. They discovered him Thursday afternoon, severely dehydrated and unable to walk, with insect bites all over his body. He was huddled in brush about 150 feet from the mangled wreckage of his mother's overturned car.

"I heard someone yelling, and I yelled, 'Thomas is that you?' and he yelled yes," state police investigator Gary Mazzacano told the Albany Times Union newspaper. "I said, 'Keep yelling so I can find you.'"

Mazzacano said Wopat-Moreau "had no use of his lower extremities," but seemed to be in "good spirits, considering ... with a will to live." He'd had no fresh water or food for four days.

"It's a miracle he is alive," police Capt. Scott Brown told the New York Daily News.

During their search, Wopat-Moreau's friends and family had set up a Facebook page to receive condolences and encouragement. After news of his discovery, well-wishers posted messages saying "You scared the crap out of us... Sooo happy you're ok!" and "You were given a second chance at life!! get well soon."

He's been transferred to the Albany Medical Center Hospital, where his uncle John Wopat told reporters he's in "good spirits and is "dozing off" from pain medication. When asked how his nephew survived, Wopat responded: "Sheer will power."

"He said he was drinking swamp water. I can't imagine ... ."
 
RedbirdFan18
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It my sound stupid, but I didn't even know they had swamps in New York. LMAO.
 
MRN
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Lol, there are swamps pretty much everywhere.
 
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