Man spends week in upside-down car in creek...

Don't know if this has hit the national news circuit yet, but it's making a bit of ruckus here in DC.. Here's the story.....

A local college kid gets in the car one weekend to go visit his girlfriend at University of MD.. Along the way...somehow...he crashes his car. It goes off the road...and falls...upside down...into a creek (or crick) below the road.

THEN....he chills....upside down....in his upside down car....for a week. Slowly but surely...he frees himself of the seatbelt, and crawls up the creek bed...and lies on the side of the road until someone notices him.

There are a few things that are amazing about this. One of course is that this kid was able to survive for a week in his beat up car upside down. The other is that nobody saw the accident, or the wrecked car. In fact...the family actually drove across the small section of road that crosses the creek a number of times during their search that week...not having any idea that their son was in his upside down car just below them.

I've actually been on this section of road before (I was craaazy lost at the time...but that's besides the point). It's near the Baltimore-Washington Parkway, which is a major state road that connects...well, you can guess. Furthermore, it's not all that far from the DC beltway. My point...it's not like he wrecked in Nubbinsville. It's amazing that nobody saw the accident...or had noticed anything strange indicating that a freakin' car had gone off the road and was upside down, just feet below them.

Hats off to the kid for roughing it out. The family isn't pressing him for details until he's recovered, but I imagine it should be a pretty interesting story. Stay tuned....