I mean… I fucking get it.
I watched a video on him. Great and very unique story. Sure he stole, but he was harmless and just wanted to live alone. Crazy how he survived some of those winters.
1000 burglaries over span of 27 years is actually respectable. People do a lot worse when they need a lot less
That’s once every 10 days. That’s a lotta robbin
No robberies. Just burglaries. And only of empty vacation homes. And only for cheap essentials.
If I knew there was someone in the woods stealing food, I would have put out cans of food for him, so he doesn’t break in.
Me too. It’s bizarre how angry some people get about this guy. I would love to support him by donating whatever he needs in a way that is comfortable for him to receive it.
We have food donation and unwanted restaurant leftover boxes on the main downtown street here. I try to add something whenever one is empty.
Yeah but apparently he was a terror to those living in the area. They swore it was a ghost because it hard to prove that they were not losing their minds.
Can you imagine? “Um… where tf is that giant tub of peanut butter we just bought? And half of my underwear is missing…”
Yeah read articles about this man he was the ghost of the woods or something. He never broke in that could proven. But books amd food comes up missing and clothing. It drove the locals nuts. But they never imagined it was a person. I totally believe he still be out there but he wanted to get caught.
Is that the guy who survived sub-zero winter nights with no fire (for maximum stealth) by just staying awake all night?
I don’t think I’ve ever wanted to be alone that badly, but I lived alone during the pandemic and went about eight months without seeing another human in person and I already started getting weird. After a certain point, you have to readjust to having people around. I can’t imagine how it would be after that long.
Sure he stole, but he was harmless
Those two statements are in direct conflict. Both cannot be true.
Edit: wow, you all had some pretty shitty parents
Food, shelter and hygiene should all be basic human rights. If they were, this wouldn’t be a debate.
But they aren’t. And it is.
You can’t just dismiss reality when it becomes inconvenient, and if your morals are so “flexible”, you might as well not have any at all.
You have it backward. What’s legal or not is not the same as what’s ethical or moral. Their morals aren’t flexible, quite the opposite. They just recognise where the law is wrong.
If I had a vacation home and someone stole my snacks I would be like. Thank god. Imagine if someone starved to death in the woods near my vacation home? That would be terrible, right? …Right?
If you are forced to resort to imaginary scenarios just to try to prove your point, that should be enough of an indication that it doesn’t hold up to reality.
And if they stole your vacation home instead of just a few cherries? How would you feel about it then?
A bit different, I suspect
You just compared apples to an entire apple orchard. Of course someone whould feel different. I feel different if someone cuts me off in traffic compared to slamming into my car.
Edit: No, you did.
Found the conservative.
Sure, attack me because you have no better argument than a personal insult.
Thanks for proving my claim about your shitty parents— and your incapability of understanding how theft is both injurious and morally despicable is a sign of sociopathy.
Try thinking of someone other than yourself for once
Also, definitely not a conservative. So you’re wrong about multiple things.
Every time I encounter you in the wild, you are espousing conservative views or defending conservatives. Stop being so conservative and people will stop calling you conservative.
Conservatives are always claiming they aren’t conservative or Maga, but Conservatives/ MAGAs lie. They are convinced that the rest of us are blind, so they think they can SAY one thing, and do something totally different, and we won’t notice.
You can’t trust what a MAGA says, you have to watch what they do.
Except that has never happened.
If you have to lie just to save face on a public Internet forum, that’s pretty pathetic. It’s not like my comments are private.
No, calling someone a conservative, or MAGA, is a complete argument. At this point, we all know what being a conservative includes, so all you need to do is say the word Conservative or MAGA, and you’ve made an efficient argument.
I will never cease to be amazed by the lengths people will go to in order to avoid admitting they were wrong
attack me because you have no better argument than a personal insult.
This is great coming from the person calling everyone else a sociopath with shitty parents 😂
Throw that link up
Search: drove until he ran out of gas stole only food
::: spoiler https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/real-life-stories/man-lived-alone-forest-27-10033467 :::
Yooo, can you send a link to the vid?
Free to roam the great outdoors all by himself for all that time, and they cram him into a cell with a dozen other people. Cruel and unusual punishment.
muthafucker couldn’t get a library card?
You need an address to receive one, most of the time. I don’t think the post office delivers to “Standing awake in subzero nights to survive, existing as a local cryptid in the woods 80864”
Well, if he’d used the full +4 code he might have gotten away with it and received his library card a day earlier.
I hate the +4 digits. There’s no way you need that many digits to find a place in a world that has What Three Words.
Zip+4: 9 digits
What Three Words: 14 characters in this case.
There are certainly reasons to consider adopting w3w, but saving digits isn’t one of them.
Besides, I don’t think what three words existed when they developed the zip+4 system.
Pre-Trump, the USPS would likely deliver to a latitude and longitude.
I heard about him and the guy that finally tracked him down. He did serve a prison sentice and after disappeared back into the woods.
prison sentice
Sentient AI that froze?
Highly reccomend The Stranger In The Woods by Michael Finkle. It was absolutely gripping and fascinating
I guess he got those glasses after he was caught?
Was thinking that too…
That’s a proper monk in the modern age if I ever see one.
I wonder how he kept himself in eyeglasses for that long. It would be so, so annoying to break or lose them.
