Missing hiker found, has great relationship with dad

I wanted to post this article this morning because I thought it would be happy. It seems that every morning when I wake up and check the news sites I see plane crashes, suicide bombings, and coups and I was excited this morning to see an article that was not about death and destruction, without my having to go to metro.co.uk and talk about vagina weightlifting or elephant butt moisturizers. It's a story at the bbcnews website about a 19-year-old british hiker who was lost in the Australian wilderness for twelve days. He was barely alive when found but he was alive. His family must be overjoyed, right?

Mr Neale's father, Richard Cass, who flew to Australia to join the search, was reunited with his son, who he said looked "gaunt and scratched". Mr Cass told
Australian newspaper, The Age: "The millions that have been spent on this search, the man hours that have gone into it... all because he goes out on a walk without his mobile phone."The only teenager in the world who goes on a 10-mile hike and leaves his mobile phone behind.'' Speaking at a press conference he admitted that he had "lost faith". "I made a little shrine for him," he said. "I defaced your national park with his name and date of birth - he's going to come back and see his gravestone." [Source: bbc.co.uk]

Most people would lay off the kid for forgetting his phone, given that he's currently being treated in a hospital for massive exposure and dehydration. But most people aren't Richard Cass.

“Aren’t you gonna help us, Richard?”

“I am helping, I’m carving the little bastard’s tombstone.”

Father of the year anyone?