A motorcycle rider who fled police was caught after spending 13 nights hiding out in a jungle - surviving on only six plums.<br /><br />Patphak Jewcharoen, 27, panicked when he approached a police checkpoint in Tak, northern Thailand on January 6.<br /><br />The ex-convict sped up and darted down a dead end road. Officers waited for him to emerge but when they checked, there was only an abandoned motorbike.<br /><br />National park rangers and the rescuer teams were sent into the forest looking for him and last Sunday (January 19) morning found Patphak.<br /><br />The exhausted man, who had not done anything wrong before fleeing into the jungle,was found leaning against a tree around 3.7 miles away from where he left the motorcycle.<br /><br />He told the rescuers he had only eaten six pieces of fruit, which he found in along the way.<br /><br />He said: "I freaked out when I saw the police because I used to do drugs and was scared and sped up.<br /><br />"I rode away without knowing there was a dead end and accidentally crashed into a tree before me.<br /><br />"I was injured from standing on a spiky rock and used my shirt to bandage my foot. I only ate six hog plums I found along the way.<br /><br />"Then I had to runaway from the vegetation fire which caused me to go deeper and it was so cold in the night that I had to sleep hugging a rock from the smouldering fire to keep me warm." <br /><br />The rescuers had made a bamboo cradle to carry him out before they sent him to the hospital for further check up.<br /><br />Patphak was taken to hospital for a checkup. He was given water and hot food to help him recover while medics tended to his wounds.
