Last Straw

caption: A husband who stormed out after a row about his wife's cooking nearly starved to death eating hay when he got lost in frozen forest for more than a month.

A husband who stormed out after a row about his wife's cooking nearly starved to death eating hay when he got lost in frozen forest for more than a month.

Fussy Yuri Ticiuc, 69, walked out of the family home in Altai, Russia, because his wife's soup was too cold, but lost his way in dense woodlands.

"I walked and walked but after a few hours I didn’t have any idea where I was and I couldn’t find my way back," he told local media.

He survived eating berries and leaves and finally collapsed in a field where he ate grain from a haystack and drank snow until farm workers found him too weak and crippled by frostbite to move.

"I thought I was going to die. The temperatures were sub-zero and I was getting really weak.

"And then one day I heard voices and saw some farm workers....

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