RAF helicopter rescues man stuck in a bush
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It's not often that the fiercely skilled RAF rescue pilots are scrambled to rescue a man stuck upside down in a bush - but that's exactly what happened in Devon this week.
Marcus Wilde found himself bottom up in a bramble when he was trying to retrieve his model airplane near Morte Point, a popular beauty spot in Woolacombe, Devon.
The local coastguard and rescue helicopter from RAF Chivenor's 22 Squadron were called to the scene.
Marcus, who was trapped for more than an hour, told The Sun: "I was covered in cuts. My clothes were ripped to pieces.
"The more I struggled, the worse it got. I felt helpless, distressed, disorientated and dehydrated. It was horrible.
"They couldn't see me at first because I was so deeply buried. They then attached a harness, told me to curl up into a ball and literally ripped me out of the brambles."
He has hit out at critics who say it was a waste of public money, saying the incident "wasn't trivial".
A coastguard spokesman told the Daily Mail: "He wasn't badly injured but he'd been stuck fast in the brambles and it seemed the simplest way to get him out. It was certainly one of our more unusual rescues."
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