Haiti survivor saved by a Scot and a bottle of whisky

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the story is worth reading. really.

"On Tuesday 12 January, Wismond Exantus was at work in the ground-floor shop of the four-storey Napoli Inn in Port-au-Prince. At 4.53pm, when the magnitude 7.0 quake hit, the 24-year-old cashier had the presence of mind to squirrel himself under a desk as the building tumbled down around him.

By Saturday, 11 days later and hours after the government declared search and rescue operations to be officially over, he was pulled alive from the ­rubble. The story of Exantus – the last known survivor to emerge from Haiti's shattered ruins – is a remarkable tale of crisps, beer, whisky, Twitter, a riot and a diminutive Scottish woman rescuer.

As he lay in the wreckage of the hotel, a drama unfolded of chaos, screaming and, eventually, helicopters and help. Wedged into a tiny black cavity, Exantus knew nothing of what was happening outside. "He didn't know if it was night or day," said his brother, Enso.

He held his mobile phone throughout, but it was not charged, a torment which can only be imagined. With his other hand he groped around for supplies that had been scattered around the ruined shop: crisps, sweets, soft drinks and beer. When he wanted to sleep, he took a deep draught of whisky. "By the end he had drunk a whole bottle of White Label," said Enso."

the guardian, http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/jan/24/haiti-earthquake-survivor-remarkable-rescue

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1. If one must be buried alive, having plenty of whisky with which to

anesthetize oneself isn't a half bad way to go. Plus, he got the happy ending after all.