Man Survives Two Months in Car Without Food: Believable or Unlikely?

You are right it is bullcrap

He probably ate his wife and kids. That's how he survived.

LOL! Now that is funny is a sick sort of way.

Hey, happened in the past, Google "Donner Party" Way back in 1846 several famlies from a wagon train heading West got stuck in a snow storm just East of California and could no longer make it through a Mt. pass and resorted to cannibalism to stay alive. Happened at least once in modern times when people left from a plane crash high in the Mts. also ate their fellow passengers. Movies were made of each event.

My family and me took a road trip and our tire had exploded (yes I mean that) on the road. Luckily nobody got hurt but we had to go without food for like 2 or 3 days. My mom says I passed out

that sucks! but I mean 2 or 3 days without food is endurable, no water for that long? I guess possible barley. but this dude was gone for 2 months without any of that or warmth, I don't get how it's possible, lol. seems like what he's claiming is crap, lol.

xD haha yea

He ate snow, which is water. You can last a long time just on water. Remember, when they found him he was in very poor condition.

yeah the oxygen was what made me think it was bulloney. maybe he was on his way home with the shopping, and he has a stockpile of food to do him a few weeks...maybe, on a bad note his family starved to death waiting for him to return with the food.

Two months is too long to go unless he was really, really, really fat.

I am skeptical.

Doesn't seem that likely. A difficult feat even if he had planned it and was prepared.

Oh PHULEEEZE, I have known men to go longer with out food when they were told they had to cook for themselves.

i resent that, i'm a great cook.

LOL And I see you lived! You must get a TV show so you can save others. lol...

nah, not giving out my recipes to no one.

LOL I don't blame you....that is unless you a good one for lasgna!!!

i make the best lasagna, and it's not a veggie one either.

honestly most men, not all, but most are bloody good cooks.. go through 20 resturants, and see who is cooking, 85% of the chefs are men..

awesome statement C.C.Rider, good laught had by it.

That's possible as long as he had a water source.

snow or water produced from snow contains many bacteria, the most common, is Psuedomonas syringae, large quantities of snow or melted snow is harmful, small quantities are ok, not good but ok. living on bacteria ridden snow for 2 months would have eventually sent his body into shock, as well as drinking melted snow or eating snow, lowers the bodys core temprature. shock + low body core temp,, commonly results in death.

there are some horror stories of POW men from Vietnam who lived on nothing but water and some juice for 3 months.

The body does amazing and unbelievable things when it’s put in situations like this.

He had a water source, people can live over 2 months without food, hunger strikers have.

Completely believable. Cold and lack food and physical exertion would have greatly slowed his metabolism. That combined with ready access to water I can see how its possible.

nope...no way in hell...

Maybe he was disoriented when he told them December 19, but when he had recovered decided to go with it since it was giving him so much positive press.

I've heard weirder stories about the situations the human body has lived through. I can picture this

Even IF ALL THE INTERIOR WAS EDIBLE, he would still need WATER or his life functions would cease in @ a week and a half! Even IF HE ATE ENOUGH SNOW to provide him enough water, HE WOULD DIE WITHOUT FOOD IN @ 10 DAYS.

Actually depends on many factors. Like how much body fat he has. Assuming his body goes into survial mode, your BMR (calories needed just to say alive, breathing, heart, rate, mimimal brain activity) you're going to burn about 1200 calories a day.

You burn about 3500 calories when you lose a pound, so 1200 x 60 days = 72,000 calories expended in two months or 72000 / 3500 = 21 pounds of body fat lost

Doable, and if necessary your body will once it runs out of body fat start to use some muscle for fuel. Average person has 37-41% of their total weight as muscle. So assuming the guy weighted 180 pounds, that would be about 72 pounds of muscle, easily get body to burn up 10% or so plus if he had 20% body fat that would be about 36 pounds of fat he could use as fuel to stay alive.

Adjust up or down depending on actual weight, activity level, actual body fat etc.. Yes could be done, but I still question why would you stay in your car for two months and not try to walk yourself to safety?

R u a genius

No, I'm just Mr. Wonderful. ;-)

A BMR or caculating your Basal Metabolic Rate is simple enough, you can find both the equation and caculators on many sites on the web, just Google the term. Next you use the Harris Benedict Equation, (also Google) then you got your number of calories needed to stay at any weight, based on age, sex, height, activity level.

If you want to add/lose weight, take the constant of 3500 caloires to drop/add a pound you can plug that in and determine what to takes to get to a certain weight. Best to target about one pound per week for dieting purposes.

Im eleven im still growing

No

I have no doubt that someone could survive 2 months with just water and the sub freezing temp would help slow the metabolism, but only a half mile to the main road and no attempt to self rescue makes it sound kind of fishy.

Where did he go relieve himself?

If it does work, imagine the diet plan he has? Although the infomercials would be strange.

you cant go a certain amount of days without food ..

If he had water, he most likely had a good chance of making it those 2 months. I had read about a cat a couple of years ago that jumped in one of the boxes that was being put in a moving van and no one knew it was there and no one could find it. When his family left for their new home they stored some of their stuff, the cat got stored too. When they went to get the stuff and started to open boxes, out poped the cat. No one could believe the cat was still alive, but it was...lost a little weight and was mighty hungry and thirsty, but the cat made it.

I say unlike because it is quite extraordinary length of time given but, seeing the extraordinary does happen every once in awhile, not impossible.