Hey, Honey, I'm Home From My Run

This morning on the way to work we heard that the runner who'd been missing on Cougar Mountain has been found. Great news, we thought. Where did they find him? They didn't find him. He walked home. According to him he fell into a ravine while running on a trail and hit his head and was knocked unconscious. When he woke up he gathered some leaves around him and slept it off. Woke up again, walked back to the parking lot, dug his keys out of his sock or wherever, and, whoops his car had been towed. So he walked home.

Meanwhile, a massive search was organized. Hundreds of runners descended on the mountain over the weekend, scoured every trail in there and came up with nothing. King County sheriffs have been looking since Friday. Didn't find shit. Guy just showed up at home. No injuries, no hospitalization, no nothing. Unlikely, we thought.

"We're going to take his story at face value" said Sgt. John Urquhart. Well, we're not. Where the fuck was this guy? Sure, a knock on the head can be difficult for medical professionals to detect, and he could have been out cold in a ditch for the past three days, but, well, it smells. And if this guy is bullshitting everyone for whatever reason, fine. He doesn't owe Seattlest an honest explanation of where he spent the weekend, but a lot of people were out there looking for him. The next guy who gets abducted by memory erasing aliens is going to have a lot fewer runners out there in the weeds looking for him.

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By Dan in Miscellaneous on May 22, 2007 12:14 PM

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MikeJ

If he called 911 and asked everybody to come look for him, I'd agree with you. Even going back to the runaway bride thing, I don't think people owe the world any explanation when they decide not to come home for a day or two.

Larry

Mike,

No one's demanding an explanation. But if he's going to waste everyone's time by making us look for him all over Cougar Mountain, we'd like him to at least come up with a believable lie.

MikeJ

I didn't know people owed you an explanation when they didn't make it home at an acceptable time. When did you become everyone's mother?

Rob

I'm up at Cougar at least once a week. If I see him, I'll give him a wedgie for you.

Thomas513

His story reeks. I run (a lot) and I am outdoors (a lot) and I cannot imagine this story being true. Sure, maybe this was the freakest of accidents that makes his story true, but I think it is much more likely he was off throwing a hump in someone or a needly into his arm. Something is just to effing weird.

D.

Dan, I am so with you. I'm truly shocked about taking this at face value. Did they take it at face value when the Runaway Bride returned home. How bout that college girl who said she was hit on the back of the head and then drugged and bound.

For both of these incidents the public was outraged at the attention seeking selfishness of these women.

I'm not saying this guy made it up; I'm just shocked that the authorities wouldn't even ask the obvious.

Larry

They should give him a glass of that fresh Cougar Mountain creek water he supposedly drank and see if he can still stand let alone walk.. More likely he hooked up with his girlfriend (or boyfriend) at Cougar, then woke up Sunday all hung over and saw his picture in the paper. Uh oh. Better come up with something fast! I know, I fell into a ravine and hit my head! Amnesia! It worked for Gilligan!