“A lost mushroom picker was spotted and rescued after search teams saw the glow of his iPod
early Friday morning,” The Corvallis Gazette-Times (Oregon) reports.
“Cold, tired and complaining of aching feet, 25-year-old Pini Nou of Vancouver, Wash., was spotted by a member of a Benton County Search and Rescue unit in the deep woods of southwestern Benton County at 1:12 a.m., according to acting Benton County Emergency Management Coordinator Peggy Peirson. Nou was lost in the Dawson Creek and Oliver Creek roads area,” The Gazette-Times reports.
“The underbrush was so thick, it took the searchers a full 22 minutes to reach Nou, who, lacking a flashlight, had been trying to use the faint glow of his iPod Nano display as a light source. It took several more hours to get him safely out of the woods, and searchers didn’t get back home until around 6 a.m.,” The Gazette-Times reports.
Full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Mike” for the heads up.]
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Mushroom? Snaaaaake!
Hopefully he had the 2G nano as it’s display is 40% brighter than the original model.
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He went to have a zune in the woods and got rescued by an iPod.
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that’s funny
good one
Aapl; saving lives, saving the world. It’s all in a days work. God favors the Apple user.
Maybe others (Switchers?) will see the light?…
Was it Rambo?
What kind of shrooms was this guy eating that he got lost in the wood lol?
I used the backlight from my iPod Photo to move around my house when we had a power failure one night. It was surprisingly bright!
Whose woods these are I think I know.
Lost in them, night is cold as snow;
No one sees me wandering here
Until I’m saved by iPod glow.
One late evening I went to rescue a pal from the RR station. My wife took the car one way while I walked the other. I found him, struggling with his gear, and we started home. Then I saw my wife, in our car, ahead of us – looking both ways at an intersection. Took out my iPod, activated the screen, and waved at her. She came our way but denied having seen my wave. Blind old woman!
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All the more reason the iphone will have an awesome gps interface to its gps module.
If you go down in the woods today…
… you’d better take your iPod with you.
iSurvived
I pooped in the woods once
Don’t no body bash the Nao Know.
Microsoft hhas to be pissed about the Nano’s publicity now.
AAAAch!
CHAIR! CHAIR!
AAACH!
Badgers, badgers, badgers, badgers, badgers, badgers, badgers, badgers, badgers, badgers, badgers, …
Darwin thwarted.
I guess this one can counter-balance one of the dumbasses that got hit by cars/trains due to iPod stupidity.
“I guess this one can counter-balance one of the dumbasses that got hit by cars/trains due to iPod stupidity.”
How is getting lost in the woods not Stupidity?
Stupidity: it’s not the getting lost that wasn’t stupid, it was the brilliance (figuratively and literally) of using an iPod to be saved being used as a counterpoint to “iPod stupidity”.
… as in being too stupid to pay attention to your surroundings because you’re too busy whizzing through playlists to notice the bus you just stepped out in front of. Case 1: “iPod Saves!”. Case 2: “iPod exposes fatal genetic flaw”.