A 57-year-old Japanese man came back to society after living 43 years in the woods. He survived by living in caves and catching snakes, frogs, rabbits and later, fishing.
He was 14 when he ran away from home. Wow.
He was caught by police when he tried to steal money from a vending machine. He said he was starved and fed up. He’s now living with a fishing buddy, earning money with a construction job and has even supposedly found a sweetheart.
Incidentally, Thoreau was less out in the wilderness than a lot of people think. His cabin was about 50 yards from the local railroad track, and it was an easy walk into town.
Now this is unfair, the man in question should have been given a heap of recent newspapers to read before deciding whether to come back into society or not.