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Henry Morello smashed the wiper-fluid container with a rock and used a napkin to filter the liquid, he said.An elderly diabetic man stranded in the Arizona desert for five days says he survived by drinking windshield-wiper fluid.
Henry Morello, 84, got lost driving home from a friend's house last week and ran his car into a ditch after making a U-turn.
Morello smashed the wiper-fluid container with a rock and used a napkin to filter the liquid, he said, adding that he also munched on leftover pasta to stay alive.
Morello used his car mats as blankets to keep warm during cold nights that dipped into the upper '30s, The Associated Press reported.
On the fifth day, Morello told himself, "This is it."
"If they don't find me today, I can't last another night," he said.
Morello went missing on Feb. 7 in the desert just north of Phoenix and was found by hikers last Saturday.
"He looked like an angel to me," Morello said of the unidentified hiker who knocked on his car window.
Despite his ordeal, Morello doesn't plan on riding shotgun.
Henry Morello, 84, got lost driving home from a friend's house last week and ran his car into a ditch after making a U-turn.
Morello smashed the wiper-fluid container with a rock and used a napkin to filter the liquid, he said, adding that he also munched on leftover pasta to stay alive.
Morello used his car mats as blankets to keep warm during cold nights that dipped into the upper '30s, The Associated Press reported.
On the fifth day, Morello told himself, "This is it."
"If they don't find me today, I can't last another night," he said.
Morello went missing on Feb. 7 in the desert just north of Phoenix and was found by hikers last Saturday.
"He looked like an angel to me," Morello said of the unidentified hiker who knocked on his car window.
Despite his ordeal, Morello doesn't plan on riding shotgun.
"I want to drive again, but those guys want to take my car away," Morello told the Arizona Republic. "They've got another thing coming."
Still, he did take away a lesson from his misadventure: "I'll never drive without water."
With News Wire Service
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