Truck Driver Stranded In Wilderness Hauling Chips Somehow Manages Not To Eat Any

Quick warning to my bosses: do not read this, for, uh, birthday reasons. The following article discusses surprises related to your birthday that you do NOT want spoiled. Thanks.

Alright, now that they’re gone: in nearly all cases, it is absolutely okay to steal from work a bit. If you’re not taking bread off the table from a mum and pop–type operation, help yourself to as many office supplies as you want. Hell, if you reckon you can get anything bigger than stationery out of the office unnoticed, do that as well. You won’t hurt their bottom line and the amount of value you contribute to the company is almost certainly not reflected in the amount that you get paid.

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If you were hauling a literal truck full of chips, it’s almost expected that you’re gonna grab a few chippies for yourself. If you got lost in the woods for four days while carrying a truck full of chips, it would be absolutely insane not to dip into them. In saying that, meet 22-year-old Jacob Cartwright from Le Grande, Oregon.

According to KTLA, Cartwright was last Wednesday delivering a truckload of chips from Portland to Nyssa, on the Oregon-Idaho border, when his GPS lead him astray, into a region that Oregon State Police described as “remote and mountainous“.

Despite having meant to have made his delivery by 7:30am of that morning, Cartwright didn’t realise that he was going the wrong direction and continued driving until the middle of the night. When he eventually tried to turn around, the 18-wheeler became stuck on an embankment and, without a mobile phone, Cartwright proceeded to walk back the way he had come, looking for help.

His boss, Roy Henry, said that he walked 12-13 hours a day for three days until he reached Interstate 84 and flagged down a passing motorist who took him to hospital in Le Grande. According to Henry, Cartwright was heavily dehydrated and was possibly suffering from frostbite in one of his feet.

The kicker in all this? Cartwright didn’t touch any of the chips. Henry said that’s “the way he was raised.  That stuff’s not yours, you don’t touch it.

What a beautiful, dumb, heroic, wonderful weirdo.

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