German cyclist, 69, stuck
in mud 3 hours before rescue
Wolf Minderjahn thanks rescue
workers for pulling him and his bike out of the mud where they had been stuck
for 3 hours.
Teerarak Suthathiwong
A German bicyclist spent three hours in a muddy ditch at the Mabprachan
Reservoir before being pulled out by rescuers.
Wolf Minderjahn, 69, drove into the ditch on his mountain bike after getting
separated from a friend in an unfamiliar part of the reservoir Sept. 17. The
rider was unable to extricate himself from the meter-deep mud.
Minderjahn said he was stuck in the ditch for nearly three hours until his
friend found him and called police.
It took five men about an hour to wade through a 50-meter track of mud in their
bare feet to reach the stranded cyclist. Using ropes and a stretcher, they
eventually rescued both the German and his 100,000 baht bike.
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