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Nine Days in a Ditch: How One Scratched HELP Changed Everything
Nine Days in a Ditch: How One Scratched HELP Changed Everything
The first sight was six-inch letters carved into frost: HELP DAY 9 - scratched from inside a truck window with a flat-head screwdriver after nine days alone in a ditch. How did a routine timber check turn into a nine-day survival ordeal where a meter reader found a man who had been marking time and tallying days from inside his own cab?
In this episode, we tell what unfolded from March 1 to March 14, 2019: who Paul Owens was, how his truck kept a record of his confinement, and the small improvisations that kept him alive until…
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