This is the most French title I’ll read today. Did he have a baguette too? And, a striped shirt, and beret?
Seriously, glad he’s okay.
Was Waldo French?
You should read the article. It’s also incredibly French, lol.
It would be peak French if this happened while on the way to a protest.
With a pit stop at a cafe on the way for a coffee and a cigarette (breakfast).
Jacques Cousteau held his hand while he waited
Obviously. Those things are all mandatory over there.
I appreciate the man’s priorities: he fell 130 feet and managed to not break the wine bottles.
I feel like three days isn’t enough time to die from the absence of wine, but then again I’m not French.
It’s just funny the way the headline is written. I’m assuming they meant more along the lines of “survives 3 days while drinking wine” not “survives 3 days by drinking wine” lol because unless you are starting out extremely dehydrated already, then a 3-day dry fast is absolutely not going to kill you.
Three to four days is the longest you can survive without water before you die. So he probably would have been dead or close to death without the wine.
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Wine will hydrate you.
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BBC science News today says it will hydrate you enough to keep you alive. The guy in the news story stayed alive too.
??? 3 days without water can definitely be lethal
Well yeah, 10 minutes without water can definitely be lethal under the right circumstances too if you are already only 10 minutes away from dying from dehydration. I’m just saying that lying mostly still in a sunless ravine in autumn in France for 72 hours, while it’s raining, is not peak conditions for quick death from dehydration. And in any case, all I’m really saying is that claiming the guy survived by drinking the wine, meaning he would have otherwise died from dehydration, is not a supoortable conclusion and is just there to make the headline more fun.
Wine only? But no mention of Baguette and cigarettes? I don’t believe it.
It must not have been a Frenchman. A Quebecois maybe. They would fall of a cliff and only have wine.
I think most people would wine and complain after falling into a ravine like that.
Ahhhh… put a cork in it.
Sip happens 🤷
Slip happens!
I would only wine if I didn’t have cheese to go with it.
“77-year old alcoholic falls off bike after visiting his dealer.” But seriously, ALWAYS add a bottle of wine when shopping for anything, people. #safetyfirst
130 foot is almost 40 meters.
Or about 3 school buses
Or 332 cans of cheese
It sounds more like he thrived for three days.
My ass would’ve just pounded the bottle and said “this is how I go out” within the first hour.
If it would have been somewhere else:
Day one:
Day three:
How did the wine not dehydrate them?
Common misconception. Diuretics simply cause you to urinate more often. It does not necessarily mean you will urinate more than the water you are taking in. Coffee also falls into this category. The most known “don’t drink this or you’ll dehydrate” salt water will cause you to urinate more than the water you take in. Salt water is about 3.5% salt. Your kidneys can only function up to like 2%. This makes your body pull water from elsewhere to flush the excess salt out of your system.
It’s still a net hydrator.
That is the most french news headline I have read in a while
Perhaps a shorter pump is the answer.
“I BeT tHe cYcliSt rAn tHe ReD LiGHt!”
