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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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Christopher Blackmore

Fortunate...

Pint

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

Anonymous Coward

What are the police?

WTF?

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

I wonder what the German police are classified as?

Sam Therapy

Pedant alert!

Happy

He got disoriented, not disorientated.

gratou

Fortunate...

Pint

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

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