Man Stranded on Roe Island for 5 Days With Only Burritos and a Cellphone

[AsahinaKimi]

Hopper, nicknamed Goat Man for his ability to scale mountainsides, said he started out Wednesday morning on the Sacramento River, where he loaded a $300 inflatable raft with camping supplies, two burritos, a bag of vitamins, a Bible and a mannequin of Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger.


http://sfist.com/2010/11/23/man_stranded_on_roe_island_for_5_da.php
This is a winner, lol..

[marmar]

1. A bible and an Arnold Schwarzenegger mannequin?

Just what kind of kink was Hopper into?

[meow mix]

3. Goat man?

wtf

[Dappleganger]

5. All grown up!

[Initech]

2. What were the Bible and vitamins used for?

:shrug:

[sufrommich]

4. He should have used the mannequin of Schwarzenegger

as a flotation device. That's what Bear Grylls would have done.

[EFerrari]

6. You know you're a San Franciscan when this story makes you wonder

what kind of burritos and how long before lunchtime.

lol

[pinto]

7. LOL. Really. My lunch will be sans mannequin, though.

:hi:

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

8. Swarzenegger blow-up, burritos, bible & vitamins? The mind boggles with possibilities.

None of them pretty.

[TheManInTheMac]

9. "camping supplies, two burritos, a bag of vitamins, a Bible and a mannequin...

...of Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger"? Shoot--fella could have a pretty good weekend in Vegas with all that stuff.

[AsahinaKimi]

10. UPDATE!!

Coast Guard rescues man on Suisun Bay's Roe Island


(11-22) 18:58 PST CONCORD -- What appeared to be a harrowing story of survival emerged from Suisun Bay on Monday - that of a wayward rafter who spent five days stranded on a deserted island nibbling on vitamins and native plants and fashioning a crude "SOS" sign until the U.S. Coast Guard rescued him.

But after returning to shore, Brian "Goat Man" Hopper added a twist to the tale. He admitted that he failed to make use of a key piece of equipment during his stay on Roe Island north of Concord: a cellular telephone.

"I was embarrassed to be stranded on an island," Hopper, a 54-year-old artist from Encino (Los Angeles County), told The Chronicle. "I thought I could fix my boat and make it to land. ... I didn't want to spend the taxpayers' money to have the Coast Guard come rescue some stupid guy."

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/11/23/BA8N1GFV82.DTL

[AsahinaKimi]

11. dupe

[Beetwasher]

12. Well I Think We All Can Understand The Mannequin

But a bible?