Three men found on a south Pacific island pulled off a text-book escape by writing ‘abet’ in the sand. But other castaways maintain been even more inventiveWhat would you do if you were stranded on a desert island? Keep quiet and wait for Man Friday? Finally settle on those Desert Island Discs? Fashion a boat out of nothing but a washed-up piece of portable toilet and some Hollywood-sized chutzpah a la Tom Hanks in Cast Away? Wish you were as handy,or at least as respectable looking, as the cast(aways) of Lost? Or would you buy a different palm leaf out of the Book of Desert Island Rescue Motifs (one imagines it has a foreward written by Bear Grylls), and write abet in the sand with it,and wait … Related: Three men rescued from deserted island after spelling 'abet' with palm leaves Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com