Local crews rescued Andrew Giddens, 36, near a borrow pit after he faced freezing weather without food or water

A Florida man who had been missing since Valentine’s Day was found over a week later trapped in mud up to his shoulders, authorities said.

Andrew Giddens, 36, had reportedly gone several days without food or water by then, and officials ultimately rescued him in dramatic fashion to end his nightmarish ordeal.

Vulcan employees, meanwhile, had not stopped looking for signs of Giddens when one spotted him during the early evening of 25 February in shoulder-deep mud by what is known as a borrow pit, the Putnam sheriff’s office said. Giddens was alert and could talk, but the worker who had found him could not get to him because he was surrounded by “unstable” ground, the sheriff’s office said.

    • AA5B@lemmy.world
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      2 days ago

      It’s difficult to claim he’s aggressively attacking your when he’s immobilized shoulder deep …… although it’s Florida so the could have gone with “he did not comply so I started blasting”

    • Aatube@thriv.socialEnglish
      3·
      2 days ago

      The Florida news outlet WCJB reported a statement from Vulcan, which praised its team for having “handled a trespassing situation with care and compassion shepherding first responders to a man who was in distress”.