Drunk Man Who Was Reported Missing Joins Search And Rescue Teams To 'Find' Himself

Most people who drink have a history of doing weird things under the influence of alcohol, but what a man in Turkey did is one for the books. The man went missing, only to be discovered as part of his own search party.

Bayhan Mutlu, a 50-year-old man, went missing from his village a few days ago, prompting his family members to lodge a missing complaint with the police. However, he left the authorities at a loss for words when he participated in the search for himself, Ladbible reported.

Mutlu had been drinking with his friends in the rural neighborhood of Çayyaka near the city of İnegöl. At some point, the man wandered into the woodlands and never came back, NTV, a local publication, reported.

Following this, Mutlu's friends alerted cops, and rescue teams from the Bursa region raced to locate the missing person. After news broke in the neighborhood, more people volunteered in the search efforts in hopes to find him as soon as possible.

According to NTV, when the rescue officials were calling out Mutlu's name repeatedly, a man from the search teams suddenly shouted, "Who are we looking for? I am here."

The man turned out to be Mutlu himself, actively participating in the search efforts. Media outlet Vaziyet shared a photo that showed Mutlu with other rescue team members. "The teams prepared a report about the search and left the missing person at his home," the tweet read.

Everyone in the rescue team was shocked to know that Mutlu was around them the entire time. He was reportedly unaware that his friends reported him missing. It was also unclear how his friends failed to recognize him in the search team.

In a similar incident that happened in September 2019, an 80-year-old man who went missing during a hiking trip in northeastern England showed up at a press conference that was arranged to try and find him. Harry Harvey, who lost track after being separated from his walking partner, was rescued after a wildlife photographer spotted him and alerted the search teams. His family was thrilled to reunite with him.