Read the fucking article and you will see the same thing I did. It said he walked down the road then left the road down a drainage culvert.

Now everything I have ever known and seen says you always stay with the road if there is one and you always follow the natural curve of the road. If there is a river next to the road then walk downstream.

We are not talking rocket science here we are talking common sense in a survival situation. The consequences of failure are not something so easy as hitting the start button again, instead you pay with your life as happened here.

Of course the guy was from SF so maybe he had never been more than 5 feet from a bus stand and had no common sense. Too bad his family will now pay the price in pain from his death for his stupidity.