Rabid Robot wrote:

helping the guy is difficult because he's not helping
himself even slightly.

I tend to agree, I suspect people are on the brink of losing interest in
helping.

I'd suggest that he take pictures and send them
to us from this point on rather than narrate what he remembers about
what happened.

But don't try to post pictures to usenet, upload them to a sharing site
and include a link here ...