Into the woods: how one man survived alone in the wilderness for 27 years

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11. He didn't have family money to buy groceries with like Thoreau did

My parents had a lakeside cabin for a few years and they had a couple of break ins, no real damage to the property and only a few cans of food were taken. They caught the guy breaking into someone else's place and my parents thought about it and didn't press charges.

The bottom line is that extreme hermits like this guy have enough of a loose screw to qualify for SSD, a local social worker being his contact person to receive his grocery list, buy it, and leave it at a pickup point. That would be the sane way to accommodate him but we don't live in a sane country. We live in one lousy with Republicans who only listen to billionaires.