ridiculous

I'd like to see them get a bill for that extraction. What if someone had a real emergency while these resources were diverted for a sunburn?
 
I am truly against any rescue service for people who WILLINGLY go into the bush.

For people who get stranded from plane crashes, lost children, etc activate all search and rescue, but hunters, hikers, sailors and the rest, are on their own.

If you are not confident and prepared, stay out of the wilds.

You play the game, you pay the price.
 
G-man said:
I'd like to see them get a bill for that extraction. What if someone had a real emergency while these resources were diverted for a sunburn?
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Bingo. For this type of thing, they should totally pay for the resources used. And then some.
 
PrimitiveMan said:
I am truly against any rescue service for people who WILLINGLY go into the bush.

For people who get stranded from plane crashes, lost children, etc activate all search and rescue, but hunters, hikers, sailors and the rest, are on their own.

If you are not confident and prepared, stay out of the wilds.

You play the game, you pay the price.
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No offense, but that is stupid. So, because someone enjoys the outdoors, and willfully goes there, they are supposed to be left to die in a bad situation? A hunter falls from his treestand, breaks his back... sorry, buddy, you should have been prepared! A hiker falls off a rock ledge, gets bilateral femur fractures... tough luck! Should have been prepared.

Get real. Accidents happen to outdoorsmen of all stripes. Rescue is for all people in need, regardless of the situation.
 
Pay for what? One of the commenters put it this way:

All the folks that make comments about the "taxpayers" having to pay for this are even funnier. The only "taxpayers" in Alaska are the oil companies. The rest of us live here tax free. Of course they also missed out on the fact that they were not rescued by the Troopers so there is nothing to pay for. Its not like the Swivel Chair Patrol sent out a hundred planes to go find them. $50 in LL100 gas for the Trooper plane can be spared for these blokes.
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Stupid of them to go out so unprepared. Stupid to leave themselves no communications except an emergency locator beacon. But this was a very low-level emergency, during the course of which no actual rescue personnel were put at risk.

Now if a local bear had a taste for char-broiled tourist ...
 
Well said, Lee.

Rescue services should be on standby to respond to wilderness emergencies of all stripes, with no prejudice before acting. In this case, though, we have displeasure / discomfort masquerading as emergency. These fools should foot the bill for their extraction. It's like me staying out drinking all night, then calling 9/11 to take me home because the subway (or tube, or metro) has stopped running.

All the best,

- Mike
 
Mentor said:
Well said, Lee.

Rescue services should be on standby to respond to wilderness emergencies of all stripes, with no prejudice before acting. In this case, though, we have displeasure / discomfort masquerading as emergency. These fools should foot the bill for their extraction. It's like me staying out drinking all night, then calling 9/11 to take me home because the subway (or tube, or metro) has stopped running.

All the best,

- Mike
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Excellent point.
 
Mentor said:
These fools should foot the bill for their extraction.
- Mike
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Read the story, Mike. The fools did foot the bill for their extraction. When the police checked on the emergency locator beacon, they found they wanted to leave, so they notified the air taxi that brought them, and it came the next day and took them back out.
 
"There are strange things done in the midnight sun..." Robert Service, The Cremation of Sam McGee.

I agree with the posters here. Just as there is no excuse for ignorance of the law in court, there is no excuse for ignorance of the laws of nature. There are over 6.5 billion people on the planet and half of them are below average in intelligence.
 
Esav Benyamin said:
Read the story, Mike. The fools did foot the bill for their extraction. When the police checked on the emergency locator beacon, they found they wanted to leave, so they notified the air taxi that brought them, and it came the next day and took them back out.
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I know, Esav. I'm agreeing that they should (have) foot the bill. Perhaps I should have italicized 'should' in my first post for emphasis.
 
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We have a word for idiots like that... tourons. tourist + moron = touron.

Get the pansies outa my state!

I know of a guy that was stranded and purposely left for dead out in BFA, he had a 30.06 a box of ammo, a survival guide and a booklet of edible plants, about 8 months later he walked out of the bush, he was prepared and quite likely the incredible hulk.
 
While I understand that there was actually no bill for beevis and butthead to pay in this case I think that the state trooper in the float plane should have given them some kind of cititation. Wether it actually cost anyone or not these guys caused emergency personel to be diverted from their mission to check on them. I know that there are consequences for filing a false police report and there are consequences for calling 911 if you are not reporting an emergency so I think activating that beacon for a sun burn should have the same consequences.

JMO
David
 
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