Wrong Turn: The HARROWING Ordeal of Ricky Megee — Transcript

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1. 0:00foreign
2. 0:04[Music]
3. 0:08of 2006 Ricky McGee from Queensland
4. 0:11received an employment opportunity in a
5. 0:14government Department in Port Hedland
6. 0:15Western Australia this was an offer he
7. 0:18couldn't refuse but there was only one
8. 0:20issue Port Hedland is a 42-hour drive
9. 0:22away from Queensland which involved
10. 0:25driving through the Outback this wasn't
11. 0:27a problem for Ricky he packed his bags
12. 0:29and set off in his Mitsubishi challenger
13. 0:31but Ricky never arrived at Port Hedland
14. 0:33instead the following 71 days would be
15. 0:37the beginning of an extraordinary
16. 0:39chapter that unfolded as Ricky got
17. 0:41stranded in the outback with no idea
18. 0:43where he was no food water or shelter so
19. 0:48what happened to Ricky McGee and did he
20. 0:50survive this is wrong turn stranded in
21. 0:54the Australian Outback
22. 1:06despite his story being heard all over
23. 1:08the news not much is known about Ricky
24. 1:10himself we do know he was born in
25. 1:12gippsland Victoria in the early 1970s
26. 1:15but his family moved to Melbourne when
27. 1:17he was young his childhood was described
28. 1:19as happy but shortly after moving to
29. 1:21Melbourne his father sadly killed
30. 1:23himself which obviously had a massive
31. 1:25effect on Ricky throughout his life he
32. 1:28worked various jobs but could never gain
33. 1:30anything permanent these jobs included
34. 1:32selling carpets working as a prawn
35. 1:34fisherman serving as a nightclub
36. 1:36storesmen and practicing as an
37. 1:38electrician his professional Journey
38. 1:40eventually led him to become a bailiff
39. 1:42but after getting into a fight in Perth
40. 1:44he was arrested causing him to lose his
41. 1:46job he then went on to be arrested for
42. 1:48drug offenses which made it hard for
43. 1:50Ricky to Land employment in 2006 at the
44. 1:54age of 35 Ricky was unemployed but had
45. 1:57been offered work in a government
46. 1:58Department in Port Hedland Western
47. 2:00Australia he agreed to the job and in
48. 2:03January of 2006 he embarked on a journey
49. 2:05which were taken across the buntine
50. 2:07highway a desert route in the outback
51. 2:09this is where his Infamous Story begins
52. 2:12foreign
53. 2:17mentioning that due to discrepancies in
54. 2:19Ricky's accounts some understandable
55. 2:21doubts around his story the
56. 2:23circumstances surrounding Ricky McGee
57. 2:25being stranded in the outback are
58. 2:27somewhat unclear as he has changed his
59. 2:29story countless of times throughout the
60. 2:30years initially Ricky informed his
61. 2:33Rescuers that his car had broken down he
62. 2:35then said he left his car to search for
63. 2:37help but ended up delirious and lost
64. 2:39however he quickly changed this story he
65. 2:42went on to say that he had given a ride
66. 2:44to an Aboriginal hitchhiker while
67. 2:46traveling between the towns of
68. 2:47calcaringi and Halls Creek he claimed
69. 2:50that at some point under the journey he
70. 2:52asked The Hitchhiker to get him a drink
71. 2:53out of his fridge and he believes that
72. 2:55the hitchhiker drugged him and left him
73. 2:57for dead stranded in the middle of the
74. 2:59desert again this story was changed the
75. 3:01one that he sticks with today I will say
76. 3:04to me personally this one sounds the
77. 3:05most unrealistic but here it is anyway
78. 3:07in his autobiography published in 2010
79. 3:11Ricky said he encountered three
80. 3:13individuals by the roadside who had run
81. 3:15out of fuel
82. 3:16offering assistance Ricky agreed to give
83. 3:19one of them a lift to a nearby petrol
84. 3:20station however during a struggle he
85. 3:23believed he was drugged which caused him
86. 3:25to lose Consciousness when he regained
87. 3:28awareness hours later he found himself
88. 3:30in the captain's Camp being held hostage
89. 3:32after an undisclosed period the
90. 3:35assailants left and he woke up in a hole
91. 3:37covered with black plastic he was then
92. 3:39alone and stranded in the outback
93. 3:42the Outback is a vast and captivating
94. 3:45region in the heart of Australia it's
95. 3:47characterized by its expansive red
96. 3:48deserts rugged mountain ranges ancient
97. 3:51rock formations and intimidating
98. 3:53Wildlife that is somehow found a way to
99. 3:55adapt weather conditions are extreme and
100. 3:58harsh from scorching heat to Relentless
101. 4:00droughts and freezing nights the Outback
102. 4:03whilst captivating presents inherent
103. 4:05dangers and its unforgiving nature can
104. 4:07pose significant risk to those who
105. 4:09Venture into its fast expanse people go
106. 4:12missing in the outback every year and
107. 4:14many of them are never and will never be
108. 4:16found
109. 4:20regardless of how we got there Ricky was
110. 4:23now naked in the hot desert with nobody
111. 4:25around no food water or civilization at
112. 4:30first Ricky sat in confusion what had
113. 4:32just happened to him was any of it even
114. 4:34real sadly it was which meant he only
115. 4:38had one option this was to find help
116. 4:40Ricky embarked on a challenging journey
117. 4:42through the desert devoid of clothing
118. 4:44and Footwear with each passing day hoped
119. 4:48to indulge as he still found no hope of
120. 4:50rescue during the day he baked in the
121. 4:52hot sun which would often reach 40
122. 4:54Celsius or 104 Fahrenheit and at night
123. 4:58he froze he knew that he had to find a
124. 5:00water source and shelter if he was going
125. 5:03to survive in perhaps the only Stroke of
126. 5:05Luck Ricky had on his harrowing Journey
127. 5:07thus far it had just been the end of
128. 5:08rainy season which meant scattered
129. 5:10pockets of water remained in the desert
130. 5:13after a few days walking in the desert
131. 5:15Ricky found a small dam which he made a
132. 5:17makeshift shelter next to and decided to
133. 5:20rest he now had shelter and water but
134. 5:23Ricky was starving and needed food after
135. 5:26a week with no food Ricky was ready to
136. 5:28eat anything he could find as he lay in
137. 5:31his makeshift Camp he saw a lizard run
138. 5:33by without even thinking he quickly
139. 5:36killed the wizard and lay it out in the
140. 5:38sun to cook at this point he couldn't be
141. 5:40picky with what he ate and he certainly
142. 5:42wasn't he ate anything from lizards
143. 5:44frogs and leeches to wild plants which
144. 5:46in his own words if it tasted good he
145. 5:49ate it Ricky after a few weeks in his
146. 5:51initial shelter made the decision to
147. 5:53move on he eventually found another
148. 5:55water hole and set up camp he was now
149. 5:57very weak and starving to death he knew
150. 6:00that he wouldn't be able to go any
151. 6:01further so he sat and waited he even
152. 6:05created a cross for himself which he
153. 6:07mounted on his shelter
154. 6:09eventually on day 71 Ricky was found by
155. 6:12jackaroo's located at the birandudu
156. 6:14castle station jackaroo's is a term
157. 6:17commonly used in Australia to refer to
158. 6:19young male workers who assist with
159. 6:20various tasks on a cattle station or
160. 6:22sheep station they are essentially
161. 6:24farmhands or Ranch hands who perform
162. 6:26annual labor and help with day-to-day
163. 6:28operations of the station Mark Clifford
164. 6:30manager of the cattle station said it's
165. 6:33a bit unclear what the trouble was with
166. 6:34the car and why he ended up off the road
167. 6:37he's walked for about 10 days to get to
168. 6:39where he is before he's realized that
169. 6:40he's got to set himself up some shelter
170. 6:42and start trying to get some food into
171. 6:44himself he basically sat where he was
172. 6:47for about 10 weeks where he was found
173. 6:49was described by the jackaroos as being
174. 6:51one of the most remote places in the
175. 6:53outback
176. 6:58Ricky was described as being a walking
177. 7:00skeleton when he was found and he was
178. 7:01severely malnourished and sunburned he
179. 7:04was flown to hospital where it was
180. 7:06revealed that he had lost over half of
181. 7:07his body weight which was initially 230
182. 7:09pounds and it dropped to 105 pounds
183. 7:12despite this because Ricky kept himself
184. 7:15well hydrated throughout the ordeal he
185. 7:17was in surprisingly good shape all
186. 7:19things considering and didn't require
187. 7:21any serious medical attention
188. 7:23he discharged himself from the hospital
189. 7:25six days later
190. 7:26following Ricky's ordeal the Australian
191. 7:29media raised doubts about certain
192. 7:30aspects of his account and reported his
193. 7:32attempts to sell his story to commercial
194. 7:34television stations Additionally the
195. 7:37police also expressed skepticism due to
196. 7:39Ricky's prior drug convictions it was
197. 7:42confirmed that he had survived in the
198. 7:43outback for a huge amount of time but
199. 7:45how he got there is still up for debate
200. 7:47it was also noted that Ricky's car was
201. 7:49never found
202. 7:50in 2010 Ricky released the book left for
203. 7:54dead how I survived 71 days in the
204. 7:56outback which details his experience
205. 7:59I'd love to know what you think about
206. 8:01this case because it is a crazy one and
207. 8:03how do you think he ended up there let
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