COMSTOCK PARK, Mich. — “It was the loudest crack in the world,” Bill Ernest Pahl, a Comstock Park resident, said about his fall from his hunting treestand.

It was November. The woods were dark, cold and he was alone.

He was unable to walk.

“All I did was scream and scream,” he said. “I tried screaming louder so maybe a neighbor might hear, but it was totally black out, totally night, and I screamed louder and louder to try to get somebody's attention.”

Then Pahl remembered he had his phone in his pocket. He called his wife Pattie, who was making a celebratory dinner, thinking her husband would come home with the large buck they spotted on their property earlier that day.

“So when I called her, she was a real bubbly voice,” Pahl said. “She said, ‘Did you get that deer?’ I said, ‘No, ho

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