Living Underground

Our Florida correspondent sometimes looks at odd web sites. His latest find is the World News Daily Report, which is based in Tel Aviv but refers to itself as an American Jewish Zionist newspaper that has been in business since 1988 and publishes more than 200,000 copies every day. Some of today's headlines:

• German scientists prove there is life after death
• 600-pound alligator shot down in Central Park
• 36-year-old auctions his virginity to highest bidder
• Cannabis discovered in prehistoric tomb
• Alabama man cheated on his wife with a goat
• Janitor claims to be Obama's half-brother
• Japanese whaling crew eaten alive by killer whales
• Man diagnosed with multiple personality disorder has 16 wives and 63 children
• And then there's the story that caused me to write the title of this post, Miner found alive after 17 years underground.

The miner has spent the last 17 years living underground in a mine that had collapsed in 1997. When the mine collapsed 78 of the miner's coworkers died. He, however, fell near a ventilation duct that connected to the surface and that gave him air to breathe. His first supply of food came from an emergency stash of rice and water, which had been stored in the mine. He augmented his diet by catching and eating rats and collecting some sort of moss. 

Don't you want to read the other stories in this "newspaper"?