Camera flash saves a life!

So this is thinking. A lost man uses his flash to signal for help and is saved by a woman watching a webcam hundreds of miles away.....

Brilliant X2!

http://news.yahoo.com/​s/ap/eu_germany_webcam​_rescue

Hope the flash doesn't draw in wildlife. A lens issue? Is "brilliant" meant to be a pun?

A good argument for carrying a GPS...

gasrocks wrote in post #9532938
.. Is "brilliant" meant to be a pun?

It's a "British-ism" ..

umm he couldn't have navigated by star?

anyways, quick thinking by the guy who's lost, and thank God the tourist called the cops. good thing the photographer took a flash along even though he was only shooting sunsets
hhaha

I have a hard time calling him smart after he wandered out on some ice and got stuck/lost.

Hay, can I tell the story about how I fell through the ice on a frozen lake with my camera equipment not once but twice in the same winter? You'd think the guy would learn the first time.

NIASE.

What's NIASE ?

The only hit google gave me was from the Urban Dictionary. I'll let those who are curious look it up for themselves.

Perfect_10 wrote in post #9534333
It's a "British-ism" ..

Could be, but I'm not British...

gasrocks wrote in post #9532938
Is "brilliant" meant to be a pun?

Every year, there are people who get lost one way or the other (it's really not as difficult as many people like to think...) and panic. I have personally been involved in a couple rescues, and many, though not all, people who die lost in the woods, make critical mistakes, after the original wrong turn. Panic and run after dark, wander further in the wrong direction, not take an assessment of whet they have that could save them etc etc. In this case, the person who was lost used their head, and figured out a way to signal for help. The person watching the cam was smart enough to know that others have been lost in this area before, and that the flashes she saw, could be a call for help.

No, "brilliant" was not meant to be a pun.

tkbslc wrote in post #9534360
I have a hard time calling him smart after he wandered out on some ice and got stuck/lost.

May or may not be that smart to have gotten lost to begin with, hard to say. Maybe they just needed someone to stand on the hill and say "This is the place!"

It seems odd to me. If the sunset was in front of you, you'd think you could find shore by walking toward the dark part of the sky. Unless the guy stayed out there until it was pitch black in which case why was the woman still watching that long after the sun had set?

... Maybe I'm just disoriented.

Reflections2000 wrote in post #9535430
May or may not be that smart to have gotten lost to begin with, hard to say. Maybe they just needed someone to stand on the hill and say "This is the place!"

Is that a Utah joke?

tkbslc wrote in post #9537004
Is that a Utah joke?

I might be....