when we lived in the arctic, one of the eskimos was out on the land and the throttle on his old elan started sticking, so he got off and was squeezing it to free it up. it stuck open and he couldn't hold it up any more......it got away from him and was going just fast enough he couldn't run fast enough to catch it. it disappeared out on to the ocean ice and he had to walk home.
when the ice breaker came through about a month later, they found it about 80 miles out on the ice, out of gas!
they slung it under their helicopter and flew it back to town.
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