Fishermen rescue naked fugitive from Australian tree

CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Two fishermen have rescued a naked fugitive who they found sitting on a tree branch in Australian crocodile habitat. Cam Faust said on Wednesday he and fellow recreational fisher Kev Joiner heard the 40-year-old man yell for help on Sunday as they set crab traps from their dinghy in mangroves on the outskirts of Darwin. Faust says the stranger had explained that he had been lost for four days and survived by eating snails. The man was taken to a Darwin hospital,