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Posted November 22, 2005 EST
Firefighter Found Hanging Upside Down Like A Possum
United States (Tennessee) -
Montgomery County deer hunter Nickoles Rhodes, 21, is lucky to be alive and glad to be home after hanging by one foot from a broken tree stand for 90 minutes while 45 feet up a tree Sunday evening. Rhodes shot a doe from his perch off Smith Branch Road in Montgomery County around 5:15 p.m. Sunday. The tree stand gave way while he was maneuvering it down the cherry tree.
Rhodes was using a stand that allows a hunter, while seated and with both feet secured in straps, to climb up and down a tree.
The seat portion of the stand gave way as did the left foot strap.
Rhodes, a Woodlawn Volunteer Firefighter, said his right boot toe caught in the strap.
"Otherwise I'd have fallen right on my head and wouldn't be talking to you right now," he said.
Fellow hunter Pat Mueller, 42, was nearby when he heard the tree stand break and then Rhodes' shouts for help.
"I ran over and there he was hanging upside down like a possum," Mueller said. "He was yelling 'Call 911!' and 'Get me down.'"
Written by Staff Writer David R. Ross
