Lost motorist survives on frozen beer, and more

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.”

How Angelina and Brad cope with jet lag

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Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt have installed a special high-tech lighting system in their French château to help them and their family cope with jet lag. The globe-trotting power couple and their six children “have to endure changing time zones all the time as they shoot new films,” a source tells the London Sun. The expensive new lighting system, usually found only in private jets and first-class airline cabins, is designed to help “reset your body clock and deal with local times.” If Brangelina find that the lighting works, they may install it in their other houses.

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.