Women Lost In Michigan Survive On Girl Scout Cookies

I've often felt that Thin Mint Girl Scout Cookies were manna from heaven, and now there's proof.

When Leslie Roy and Lee Marie Wright found themselves stuck in the mud and snow of a rural Upper Peninsula road, they survived two weeks on the delicious cookies.

Roy, from Nebraska, and Wright, from Oklahoma got lost two weeks ago when returning from visiting relatives in Ishpeming. Taking a short cut near Lake Superior, the ladies got bogged down in the mud and snow along a Luce County road close to the Crisp Point lighthouse.

When initially hearing this story yesterday, my immediate thought was these women had some hunting skills and perhaps a gun to provide sustenance, but State Police Sgt. Jeff Marker told the Associated Press yesterday that the women survived on what is more typically known as the "Jojo Diet":

The women survived by wearing layers of clothing to stay warm, melted snow to drink and ate Girl Scout cookies and a bag of cheese puffs.

I wonder what kind of cookies they had? Because the truth be known, if it was Thin Mints, I would have scarfed those things down the first night.

Many people reading this are also probably asking themselves, how did the Girl Scouts get out to there to sell the women those cookies? Well, everyone knows the GS have mad wilderness and camping skills. It's one of the first badges you earn!

A lack of cell phone service made calling for help impossible; it was only because of a Facebook message from one of the women, asking about nearby Tahquamenon Falls, that rescue workers knew where to start searching for them.

The sisters were examined Friday at an area hospital and released.

“Lee and I would like to thank everyone. Friends, family, strangers from afar for all of their thoughts and prayers,” they said in the statement.

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