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Missing Snowboarder Found In A Bar!

Who: A 20-year-old Austrian snowboarder
Where: Obertauern, Austria
His mistake: Being stupid
What happened: While snowboarding with some friends who were heading down the mountain, the young snowboarder lost his snowboard and climbed down alone to retrieve it.

When he never showed up an hour later his friends called the police. A group of 12 volunteers from the Bergrettung in Obertauern started a search for the missing snowboarder who turned up a short time later and not on the mountain. He was drunk in a hotel bar! He said he forgot to tell anyone he had returned.

2 comments to Missing Snowboarder Found In A Bar!

Bergschlawiner

January 21st, 2010 at 10:17 am

This is what typically used to be called by SAR people as a “Bastard Search.”
eluctor

January 24th, 2010 at 10:24 pm

“His mistake: Being stupid” LOL! Yep, that says it all.

-Romadant