An old man has virtually done the impossible and survived a five day ordeal in the Arizona Desert near a little spot they call Cave Creek, which is rather ironic. Henry “Hank” Morello managed to do this by eating his left-over pasta and drinking his windscreen wiper water. Did I mention he also has mild dementia and diabetes?

A report containing further ironic place names explains how he ended up in the precarious situation:

He left his favorite restaurant in Cave Creek, Harold’s Corral, Monday night and made a wrong turn on his way home. He said he tried to turn around to go back, but ran into a ravine where he became stuck near Bloody Basin Road and Interstate 17.

Mr Morello defeated all the odds and held out just long enough to be found by hikers on the fifth day.

The octogenarian had cleverly used floor mats from his car as blankets at night and placed pieces of its chrome on his roof to cover the air rescue option. He also drank the windscreen wiper water and limited his pasta consumption because it made him thirsty. Reading wise, he had his car manual which he read from cover to cover.

“I want to drive again, but those guys want to take my car away,” Morello said of his friends who had distributed flyers and made a website. “They’ve got another thing coming,” he went on to explain, adding that he’d never leave home again without matches and water.

[Source:AZcentral]