A university student in the US city of San Diego has received more than $4m (£2.6m) from the US government after he was abandoned for more than four days in a prison cell, his lawyer said.
Daniel Chong said he drank his urine to stay alive, tried to carve a message to his mother on his arm and hallucinated.
He was held in a drug raid in 2012, but told he would not be charged. Nobody returned to his cell for four days.
The justice department's inspector is investigating what happened.
After Mr Chong was rescued, he spent five days in hospital recovering from dehydration, kidney failure, cramps and a perforated oesophagus. He also lost 15lb (7kg).
He said he thought he was forgotten by mistake.
"It sounded like it was an accident - a really, really bad, horrible accident," he said.
The jail cell had no windows and Mr Chong had no food or water while he was trapped inside.
His lawyer said that as a result of the incident the Drug Enforcement Administration had introduced new policies for detention, including checking cells daily and installing cameras inside them.
$1m a day
$1m a day
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Re: $1m a day
.Daniel Chong said he drank his urine to stay alive, tried to carve a message to his mother on his arm and hallucinated
Gob, Sean? Flashbacks anyone?
For Christianity, by identifying truth with faith, must teach-and, properly understood, does teach-that any interference with the truth is immoral. A Christian with faith has nothing to fear from the facts
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Even with $4 million, I'd bet he would have preferred to forego the money and have the incident not occur.
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What makes you come to that conclusion?Even with $4 million, I'd bet he would have preferred to forego the money and have the incident not occur.
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at your age, dgs...............you'd be deaad
Your collective inability to acknowledge this obvious truth makes you all look like fools.
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rubato
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I'm having flashbacks of a holiday in Aberystwyth...MajGenl.Meade wrote:.Daniel Chong said he drank his urine to stay alive, tried to carve a message to his mother on his arm and hallucinated
Gob, Sean? Flashbacks anyone?
Why is it that when Miley Cyrus gets naked and licks a hammer it's 'art' and 'edgy' but when I do it I'm 'drunk' and 'banned from the hardware store'?
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Someone needs to spend the rest of his life in solitary confinement for this.
Treat Gaza like Carthage.
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After 4 days? Maybe so.
But my heirs would surely rather have the money than me.
But my heirs would surely rather have the money than me.