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Webcam saves stranded man

This is nice. A German man stranded on sea ice was saved by a woman sitting at her PC 500km away. The man had gone for a stroll on the beach at St. Peter-Ording, on the North Sea, near Denmark, to watch the sunset, when he got disorientated, walked onto the ice, and could not find his way back. Facing almost certain death, he …

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Fortunate...

...that he could flash his camera at exactly the time the webcam took a picture.

WTF?

What are the police?

"She rang the police, who rang emergency services, "

I wonder what the German police are classified as?

Happy

Pedant alert!

He got disoriented, not disorientated.

Pint

Fortunate...

Not only at the same time, but in its approximative direction.

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