Lost motorist survives on frozen beer
An Alaskan motorist who spent three days stuck in a snowdrift says he survived by eating frozen beer. Clifton Vial, 52, endured zero-degree temperatures while helicopters and rescuers scoured the Alaskan wilderness for his missing pickup. Vial says he kept warm by wrapping his feet in a towel and running the truck’s heater in short bursts. For nourishment, Vial had only three frozen cans of Coors Light beer. He ate the solid beer, he says, after “I cut the lids off and dug it out with a knife.”
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Duck hunter gets shot by his dog
A duck hunter from Utah is recovering after his dog shot him in the butt. The unnamed 46-year-old hunter was in a boat on a shallow portion of Utah’s Great Salt Lake when he briefly disembarked to set duck decoys, leaving his shotgun in the boat. “The dog got excited,” said a police spokesman, and “did something to make the gun discharge.’’ The hunter was not badly wounded, but had 27 pellets of birdshot removed from his rear end.