By Ricky Megee, Greg McLean
In April 2006 the scoop broke of an awesome feat of survival through a white guy in a single of the main inhospitable components of Australia. Ricky Megee was once came upon sheltering by means of a dam on a distant livestock estate within the Northern Territory. After being kidnapped at the Buntine street, drugged, then left for lifeless, Ricky had walked for 10 days in naked toes via unforgiving terrain in blistering warmth. Stumbling upon a dam, he arrange camp there and survived for nearly 3 months on leeches, grasshoppers, frogs, and vegetation, losing more than one hundred thirty pounds in the method. In Left for lifeless, Ricky Megee tells for the 1st time on the grounds that his awesome rescue the whole tale of his abduction and survival, vividly and with candor. A gripping story and a desirable learn, Left for useless is either stunning and encouraging, the story of ways one guy persevered a negative ordeal and lives to inform the story.
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Extra resources for Left for Dead: How I Survived 71 Days in the Outback
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I collapsed in the grass and tried to process my thoughts, but I must have passed out. Nothing added up and I felt physically and emotionally drained. *** What happened in the hours or days that followed was like a weird, terrible nightmare that I am still trying to piece together. 39 LEFT FOR DEAD Lying in the desert in the freezing dark, drifting in and out of consciousness from total exhaustion and still feeling some effects of being drugged, I became aware of people coming and going, rifling through my car, searching for who knows what.
25 LEFT FOR DEAD Back in Brisbane I slipped into security work again and ended up hooking up with this crazy bitch, Sarah. She and I were at each other's throat throughout our brief but stormy relationship, until finally declaring we hated each other. She moved to Port Hedland in Western Australia to dear her head and I was left in Brisbane scratching mine. I was sick to death of the whole security scene I'd returned to and the partying that had become the focus of my life again. At 35 years old I was stuck in a rut and I wanted a change.
Although I didn't really have my senses, I thought that at least I was still breathing. After a couple of days I'd get my bearings and find a way out of there. I couldn't see any roads, so I headed for a big rise on the horizon to get a better view. Surely if there was no sign of a town there would at least be some hint of civilisation I could 44 SEARCHING FOR THE SEARCH PARTY aim for-a farm shed, the smoke from a fire, something to show me that someone else existed. Wrong. Couldn't have been more wrong.