He has to be the most French person ever.
Everything about this story is totally believable, the fact that a French person would have wine in a shopping bag and that they would choose to transport it via bicycle along a dusty road by a cliff. The French just do not seem to believe in putting up barriers near the edges of large cliffs, you just have to path and then 1 mm of grass and then a drop to the bottom of the world.
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.
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).
You should read the article. It’s also incredibly French, lol.
Jacques Cousteau held his hand while he waited
I think it’s supposed to be black and white stripes 😅
Was Waldo French?
Obviously. Those things are all mandatory over there.
The baguette cushioned his fall and the striped shirt scared away any predators. The beret was just a beret, though. Even if you’ve fallen down a 130ft ravine that’s no excuse to look dowdy.
(None of this is true…probably)
The power of the beret protected his head
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NoneAll of this is true…probablydefinitely)
Perhaps a shorter pump is the answer.
“I BeT tHe cYcliSt rAn tHe ReD LiGHt!”
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.
130 foot is almost 40 meters.
Or about 3 school buses
Or 332 cans of cheese
No you have to use something that doesn’t really help anyone understand size because nobody really really knows how big it is. I saw a news article that described a boulder that had fallen from the side of a cliff onto the road as, “a large boulder, the size of three small boulders”.
That’s almost the size of 95 corgis.
Or you introduce unnecessary macabre
It’s the size of two and three quarter elephants
Oh! So it’s the size of a bee swarm in a hurricane. jots notes got it
If it would have been somewhere else:
Day one:
Day three:
I appreciate the man’s priorities: he fell 130 feet and managed to not break the wine bottles.
Well, no point wasting good wine lol
Me after I’m found at the bottom of a cliff 3 days after I got shitfaced on my grocery store wine and rode off it.
That’s the indomitable human spirit.
At 77, that’s amazing!
If you gotta be stuck somewhere, you might as well make the best of it.
It sounds more like he thrived for three days.
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.
“Should have bought a baguette.”
That is the most french news headline I have read in a while
In 2023, a woman who went missing for five days in the Australian bushland was found alive after surviving for five days on lollipops and wine.
Yet another reminder to keep a stockpile of food and water in your abodes and cars just-in-case. I haven’t been stranded out and about yet, but there was a blizzard a few years ago that I was unprepared for and I nearly ran out of food.
Always keep snacks in the cycle bag
Got stranded in the desert with my mother in law a couple years ago. She didn‘t make it.
I was pretty lucky though as I had quite a bit of meat in the car and survived the ordeal unharmed and in good spirits.
You… ate her?
🤣
I’m surprised that it wasn’t tough and bitter.
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.
Bullshit!
It’s still a net hydrator.
