A male had to be saved after he passed out drunk on a raft and also drifted down a river in the direction of a dam.

Fifty-four-year-old Morris Ferguson, from Indiana, was identified after he travelled 7 miles down the Blue River in Crawford County on a flimsy-looking plethora last Sunday.

Officers from the Indiana Department of Natural Resources say when they found Ferguson he was ‘lost consciousness with a bottle of rum in his lap’, according to WBIW.

Following multiple telephone calls about the guy, Conservation Officers Neal Brewington as well as Jim Schreck went out to the scene where they tried, unsuccessfully, to wake the male by screaming and blowing a whistle from the river financial institution.

Meanwhile, 2 additional officers triggered in a watercraft to attempt as well as reach the boating while Brewington as well as Schreck established a punch line throughout the river. Even a swimmer got entailed to attempt as well as get to the boating to save Ferguson before he got to the Milltown Dam.

Fortunately for Ferguson, a Crawford County Deputy identified him washed ashore a couple of miles from the dam and was able to reach him and ensure he was OKAY.

Ferguson was provided the once-over by a medical inspector prior to he was detained on fees of public drunkenness.

With many parts of the world presently in lockdown or quarantine, this isn’t the very first case we’ve seen of an abuse of rescue solutions.

Last month, a male was rescued by police helicopter in the Pyrenees chain of mountains after he tried to walk from France to Spain, regardless of stringent lockdown measures being in location at the time.

In a statement, the French Pyrenees High Mountain Police claimed: “Looks like the [lockdown] message really did not make it through properly.

“We took part in a rescue with a helicopter from Perpignan in order to go get a tired, really cool and lost private off the elevations above Le Perthus.

“This young man, left Perpignan by cars and truck, was returned by the control terminals between France and Spain when he wished to go to Le Jonquera.

“He after that decided to take a hiking path, hoping to go across the boundary through the mountain.

“He came under a creek, ventured out again, got shed and after that wound up contacting hill rescue with an SOS using his phone.”