Offbeat Bugs save pest controller's life

[TheGuru]

A former pest exterminator owes his life to bugs after turning to them for food while spending four days lost in the Australian outback. Gold prospector Theo Rosmulder got stranded in a remote part of Western Australia without any food, water, matches or global positioning equipment.

Facing dehydration and death, he turned to what he knew best, reports ABC News. The 52-year-old managed to survive for four days by feasting on termites and other insects before local Aborigines happened upon him and brought him back to civilization.

A weary-looking Rosmulder told reporters how he found some relief from hunger at a giant termite mound. "I just hit the top of the termite nest off and got stuck into them. Termites don't taste too bad," he said at a news conference in the southwestern Australian mining town of Laverton.
Rosmulder was suffering from dehydration but otherwise in "surprisingly good condition", according to Western Australia state police Sergeant Graham Clifford. He said the insects and termites had provided Rosmulder with a bit of moisture and some protein.

[kazthorn]

This was on the news yesterday. It's amazing and very strange coincidence of circumstances.

I guess one day though the bugs will have their day with him.

[Nutty_ZA]

I remember seeing at the Natural Science Museum in Pretoria that a bowl of insects provide the same nutrition as eating Ten 500g Steaks(or something like that...

[Waldo]

I'm not sure how desperate I'd have to be to eat bugs, but I'm thinking maybe a year without food????? The thought of it just makes me cringe! YUCK!!

[Indi]

Originally Posted by Waldo

I'm not sure how desperate I'd have to be to eat bugs, but I'm thinking maybe a year without food????? The thought of it just makes me cringe! YUCK!!

True... yuck...how do ppl do that

[TheGuru]

Originally Posted by Nutty_ZA

I remember seeing at the Natural Science Museum in Pretoria that a bowl of insects provide the same nutrition as eating Ten 500g Steaks(or something like that...

I will stick to steak

[mofro187]

Originally Posted by kazthorn

This was on the news yesterday. It's amazing and very strange coincidence of circumstances.

I guess one day though the bugs will have their day with him.

Still amazes me how people can go into the desert unprepared though.