Google Earth Finds Woman Trapped on Deserted Island for 7 years

In 2007, Gemma Sheridan and 2 friends set out on a voyage that was to take them from their home town of Liverpool, across the Atlantic to the Panama Canal and then onwards to the beautiful island of Hawaii.

The first stage of the voyage went without incident. However, after passing through the Panama Canal and into the Pacific, things started to take a turn for the worse.

There was a huge storm that took out the boats electronics and washed her 2 friends overboard and seriously damaged her boat. Without any electronics and with a damaged boat, Gemma drifted for 17 days until she was hit by another major storm. During the storm, Gemma was knocked unconscious and the rest is history.

Gemma awoke on a beach, surrounded by wreckage from her boat.

Here is a short account of some of the things she endured:

Within the first hour I had a major panic attack. It was a disturbing feeling, being alone, isolated, so far from home without a hope.

I had been on water rations for the last 2 weeks, so finding water was the first priority. There where no pools of fresh water, so I had to rig up a contraption that drew the water away from the rock and it provided for one drop every 40 seconds. That was my water source, so it was coconuts until it rained. Not a great start.

The amount of energy everything took was massively beyond what I expected. And it was mentally taxing.

For the first 2 weeks I stayed in a mock shelter i made from debris that washed ashore. I needed to find real shelter, I found a large tree that looked perfect. I nibbled away at the bark of a tree with a giant clam shell for 11 days just to build a shelter. It might have been bomb-proof and waterproof in the end and it’s probably still standing but if I’d had a machete, just that one tool, I would have been able to build it in a few hours.

It was four weeks before I managed to light a fire – you have no idea how happy that made me.

There were eight feral goats on the island, four adults and four kids. I saw them on day one and they seemed to taunt me by coming so close I could almost touch them.

I made a bow and arrow, but this just went twang and fell on the floor. And my spear wasn’t sharp enough.

So, when the hunting tools didn’t work, I spent seven days building a coral-type trap with spikes on it and everything. I thought “Yes. This’ll do it”. It didn’t.

One day I was walking round the island looking for crabs and saw what I thought was driftwood caught up in the bottom of this tree. Then it bleated.

This goat had been eating the leaves, got its horns caught and panicked. It was a massive thing, about 45 or 50 kilos and it was meat, so I tried squeezing its windpipe but that wouldn’t do it and then I had to bash it on the head with a clam shell.

It took about 15 minutes to kill it and was quite gruesome. It showed me how far I was from being able to hunt because even though it was trapped it still took me quarter of an hour.

Fast forward a few years and everything had changed:

The physical side was tough but ultimately fine. I did a series of exercises on the beach every day – press-ups, chin-ups on a tree branch, squats with boulders on my shoulders and shuttle runs of about 300 metres.

I had managed to get to a stage when I was getting stronger.

The difficulty was elsewhere. My mind was lonely and it was begining to dawn on me that I may never be saved. Usually if you’re on a desert island and you start talking to yourself it is an indication that things are going wrong.

I had a sign on the beach that was about 10 feet high, but it had sat there all this time and nothing came of it. So I decided to go all out, I spent the next few weeks clearing space and finding materials to build a huge sign in the sand on the beach.

My hope was that perhaps a plane might fly over and see it, but in all my time on the island, I had not seen 1 single plane fly over. I didnt give up though.

Fast forward a couple more years:

I woke up 1 morning to the sound of a plane flying over me which was unusually low, I could not believe it, I thought it was a dream. I ran to the beach screaming and waving my arms like a lunatic, the plane flew over 2 or 3 more times and then dropped a small package.

Inside was a radio, fresh water, food and a small medical kit. I switched on the radio and heard the first human voice for years. We talked for what seemed like an eternity, then I asked the voice on the other end "How did you find me" to which they replied "Some kid from Minnesota found your SOS sign on Google Earth"

I didnt even know what Google Earth was, but I'm eternally in their debt now.

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Colorado’s First “Driving High, Get A DUI” Commercials

Here Are Colorado’s First “Driving High, Get A DUI” Commercials
Colorado is rolling out its first major campaign reminding citizens that while recreational pot is legal (in certain doses), they’re still not allowed to drive while under the influence. Starting soon, officers will start looking for certain “tells” and characteristics of drivers who are above the 5 nanograms of THC – enlarged pupils and small body tremors. There isn’t a breathalyzer for pot so alleged offenders get a free ride to the cop shop for testing.

These commercials are expected to air starting Monday.

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Malaysian: Investigators conclude flight hijacked

Malaysian: Investigators conclude flight hijacked

Posted: Mar 15, 2014 1:02 AM EDT
Updated: Mar 15, 2014 1:02 AM EDT

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) - Investigators have concluded that one or more people with significant flying experience hijacked the missing Malaysia Airlines jet, switched off communication devices and steered it off-course, a Malaysian government official involved in the investigation said Saturday.

No motive has been established and no demands have been made known, and it is not yet clear where the plane was taken, said the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to brief the media. The official said that hijacking was no longer a theory.

"It is conclusive," he said.

He said evidence that led to the conclusion were signs that the plane's communications were switched off deliberately, data about the flight path and indications the plane was steered in a way to avoid detection by radar.

The Boeing 777's communication with the ground was severed just under one hour into a flight March 8 from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing. Malaysian officials previously have said radar data suggest it may have turned back toward and crossed over the Malaysian peninsula after setting out on a northeastern path toward the Chinese capital.

Earlier, an American official told The Associated Press that investigators are examining the possibility of "human intervention" in the plane's disappearance, adding it may have been "an act of piracy."

While other theories are still being examined, the U.S. official said key evidence suggesting human intervention is that contact with the Boeing 777's transponder stopped about a dozen minutes before a messaging system on the jet quit. Such a gap would be unlikely in the case of an in-flight catastrophe.

The Malaysian official said only a skilled aviator could navigate the plane the way it was flown after its last confirmed location over the South China Sea. The official said it had been established with a "more than 50 percent" degree of certainty that military radar had picked up the missing plane after it dropped off civilian radar.

Why anyone would want to do this is unclear. Malaysian authorities and others will be urgently investigating the backgrounds of the two pilots and 10 crew members, as well the 227 passengers on board.

Some experts have said that pilot suicide may be the most likely explanation for the disappearance, as was suspected in a SilkAir crash during a flight from Singapore to Jakarta in 1997 and an EgyptAir flight in 1999.

A massive international search effort began initially in the South China Sea where the plane's transponders stopped transmitting. It has since been expanded onto the other side of the Malay peninsula up into the Andaman Sea and into the Indian Ocean.

The plane had enough fuel to fly for at least five hours after its last know location, meaning a vast swath of South and Southeast Asia would be within its reach. Investigators are analyzing radar and satellite data from around the region to try and pinpoint its final location, something that will be vital to hopes of finding the plane, and answering the mystery of what happened to it.

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Pizza Laced With Marijuana Delivered in LA

“When the moon hits you eye like a big pizza pie -- that's the ganja.”

A Los Angeles woman says a local pizza parlor got her family hella stoned after serving them what she believes was the early bud special seasoned with whacky weed.

According to reports, Ava Farley and her three grandchildren ordered a mushroom pizza from a nearby restaurant over the weekend, but shortly after consuming it, things took a turn for the weird.

“It was a like a rush, sweating, heart beating real fast,” said Farley, adding that her buzz was nothing in comparison to the mania unleashed in her 10-year-old grandson Clintay Jones. “He started cussing, going off, talking crazy, ran out the door butt naked.”

That’s when Farley made the decision to focus her tunnel vision on a nearby phone and called for help. The family was then launched on high-speed trip to the LA County/USC Medical Center, where doctors discovered signs of marijuana intoxication in both Farley and her grandson.

Of course, being in possession of a stoned youngster is always a societal red flag, which ultimately led to hospital staff giving everyone involved the third degree in an attempt to find out how the boy got high. “They questioned him like, ‘Have you had any of this? Did you do this? Is there anything in the house? Is this normal?’ No, all we had was pizza,” said Farley.

Interestingly, Farley says neither of her granddaughters felt the stoned effects of the pizza because they picked off the mushrooms, which she believes were contaminated with marijuana, according to the police report.

During a recent television interview with Eduardo Selbero, the owner of the restaurant that sold the alleged pot pie, he expressed concern over the accusations because apparently he runs the only pizza parlor in America where none of the employees smoke weed. “No, that’s incredible, because nobody smokes marijuana right here,” he said.

Los Angeles authorities are currently investigating the incident.

Mike Adams writes for stoners and smut enthusiasts in HIGH TIMES, Playboy’s The Smoking Jacket and Hustler Magazine. You can follow him on Twitter @adamssoup and on Facebook/mikeadams73.

'What's the Creepiest Thing Your Child Has Said To You' : ANSWERS

Why No One Should Mess With The Ocean , Once you see this , you might not want to swim again!

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Massachusetts heroin kills at least 185 people in 4 months

In the wake of the Philip Seymour Hoffman heroin overdose, the national public spotlight is continuing to shine on the heroin epidemic taking place in our country. The most recent state making headlines is Massachusetts, which reportedly has seen over 185 deaths due to heroin overdose since November 1, 2013. Even more shocking, these figures do not include the New England state’s largest cities of Boston, Springfield, and Worcester.

State police spokesman David Procopio told the Boston Globe:

We are continuing to investigate and analyze the problem in conjunction with our local police partners. We firmly believe that it is a problem that cannot be solved solely by arrests, although street enforcement is vital. Treatment and public education components are equally essential. Once we are able to gather more information we will release it to the public.

Reported Heroin Overdose Deaths by County

Berkshire: 2
Cape and Islands: 9
Suffolk: 10
Worcester: 12
Hampden: 12
Norfolk: 15
Hampshire: 19
Plymouth: 20
Essex: 22
Middlesex: 30
Bristol: 34

The statistics on the number of heroin related deaths for previous years are unavailable, as the state’s new tracking system had not yet been implemented, but Procopio was firm in his statement that these numbers reflect a significant increase in the number of heroin overdoses, and the presence of heroin in general.

Other Northeastern states like Vermont and New Jersey have been afflicted with the same issue, and one common theme in these overdose deaths seems to be the presence of Fentanyl, an extremely powerful opiate that is typically only administered in a hospital setting for surgical procedures. Drug dealers have long been notorious for mixing in other substances with illicit drugs in order to increase profits, but this particular chemical used as a cutting agent in heroin is proving to be extremely dangerous. Fentanyl essentially multiplies the strength of the purchased drug and puts users at a much higher risk of overdosing on amount that their bodies would typically be able to handle.

The chief justice of the trial court said Monday, Februrary 24th, that the state was in the midst of a public health crisis that demands a speedy, sweeping response. US Senator Edward J. Markey said Monday that heroin was “a scourge like we have never seen before.”

If you are in Massachusetts and need heroin treatment, detox, or rehab, please call us today at (844) 44-DETOX