Dude Survived Two Months Trapped In A Car By Hibernating. Wut?!

Now it all makes sense, Bovine America. Us fatty members of the Empire aren’t corpulent. No! We’re preparing for the day when we’re going to be trapped in our car underneath snow. We intend on hibernating! A talent I didn’t know we had.

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Police in Umea, Sweden, are reporting that they pulled a man from a snowed-in car after he’d been trapped inside for two months. So how did he survive for two months with no food in freezing temperatures? According to one physician, he just hibernated.

Yesterday, police reported that, while digging trapped motorists out of the snow, they came across a man lying in a sleeping bag in the backseat of his car who said that he had been trapped there since December 19th. The rescue team insists that they have every reason to believe that the man’s story is true, and that the car had, as far as they could tell, been trapped there for a very long time.

The man is recovering at Umea University Hospital, and apparently doing quite well, all things considered. And, yes, according to physician Stefan Branth, this sort of hibernation is possible:

“A bit like a bear that hibernates. Humans can do that,” he said. “He probably had a body temperature of around 31 degrees (Celsius) which the body adjusted to. Due to the low temperature, not much energy was used up.”

Pretty goddamn awesome.