Guest Tracy1 Posted July 15, 2009 Share Posted July 15, 2009 Yeah, I would guess his clothes, after 11 days in the bush! :laugh: Great news that this lad has been found safe and well. Huge congratulations to the rescue workers and helpers who never gave up. The news this morning said it wasnt the rescue workers who found him it was 2 bush walkers and he managed to walk into the hospital even though suffering from exposure and dehydration. His dad was quoted as saying "he must be the only teenager in the world that went out without their mobile phone" :laugh: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
_shel Posted July 15, 2009 Share Posted July 15, 2009 I'm really glad this lad has been found and is OK, I dont know how people can be so silly. When we were out there in April I remember news stories about a young Aus lad who had gone missing in the same spot and died out there. My MIL was using that to try and persuade us not to go there. We only went down katoomba steps and back up, wasnt going to go further & we had no mobile signal at all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deb8181 Posted July 15, 2009 Share Posted July 15, 2009 He was found with a few cuts and bruises the news are saying and that its a miracle that he has been found alive after 12 days in the bush. I'm so pleased especially after hearing about all our lads dying in Afghanisan just lately. Deb :spinny: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tracy123 Posted July 15, 2009 Share Posted July 15, 2009 British backpacker Jamie Neale has been found alive in the Australian bush after his desperate father gave up hope of ever seeing him again. Mr Neale, 19, from Muswell Hill, north London, had not been seen since July 3 when he left his hostel in the town of Katoomba, New South Wales, for a walk in the Blue Mountains. Mr Neale's father, Richard Cass, who flew to Australia to join the search, was preparing to leave Sydney after holding a "little closure ceremony" and lighting a candle in the park to say goodbye. Mr Cass, who has now been reunited with his son, said he was "gaunt and scrawny" and had been losing hope he would ever be rescued as search helicopters failed to spot him waving at them New South Wales Police said two bushwalkers found Mr Neale near the Narrow Neck fire trail, near Katoomba, and he was taken to Katoomba's Blue Mountains Hospital suffering from exhaustion and dehydration. Mr Cass, who was flown to the hospital to be reunited with his son, told Sky News: "He said he was losing faith in the idea there was a God every time the helicopter flew over and he was waving and shouting and nothing happened. He thought he was going to die." His son looked "gaunt and scrawny" after surviving on seeds and reeds and sleeping under a log or huddled up in his jacket, he said. "He's still a bit depressed, a bit dazed about what happened to him." Mr Cass said he thought his son had "probably fallen off a cliff" and added that he must be "the only teenager in the world" to go on an expedition like that without his mobile phone. Mr Neale's mother, Jean Neale, said she had refused to believe she would never see her son again. Speaking from her home in Muswell Hill, she told Sky News: "I never gave up hoping, I always knew he'd be coming home. He's determined and if he sets his mind to something, he will do it. I told all the family and his friends that he was coming home and I had no doubts about that. That kept them strong and in turn that kept me strong." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
calNgary Posted July 15, 2009 Share Posted July 15, 2009 come on Geoffrey keep up ,lol http://www.pomsinoz.com/forum/news-gossip-chat/64384-brit-backpacker-missing-australian-bush.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tracy123 Posted July 15, 2009 Share Posted July 15, 2009 oopps sorry can i blame this on being a man? you may as well close it silly having 2 threads for the same thing Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
calNgary Posted July 15, 2009 Share Posted July 15, 2009 Have merged the threads Geoffrey Cal x Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tracy123 Posted July 15, 2009 Share Posted July 15, 2009 remind me to give you a kiss if ever we meet up :embarrassed: :wubclub: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest MandyJayne Posted July 16, 2009 Share Posted July 16, 2009 All the people who helped to find Jamie in the Blue Mountains deserve a medal and i am just so happy that he luckily wandered upon those two bushwalkers. Its so nice to hear some good news for a change!:spinny: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
calNgary Posted July 16, 2009 Share Posted July 16, 2009 You are so right Mandy and i hope he decides to donate some of the media money he is apparently going to earn to the rescue team who spent hours searching. I know his Dad has said he doesn't want any money and would give any funds he did receive to all the services involved in the search for Jamie. Cal x Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest proud2beaussie Posted July 16, 2009 Share Posted July 16, 2009 That would be a nice gesture,I was a member of my local SES unit for 12 years and spent many ,many hours helping to pull people out of crashed cars and putting tarpaulins on houses when wind had ripped off the roof. SES units never receive enough funding IMO and if he did donate the money he makes from selling his story that would be a fantasticly generous act. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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