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Tired from a tough hike? Rescuers fear Yuppie 911
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| Oct 25
| TRACIE CONE
Posted on 10/25/2009 2:24:24 PM PDT by JoeProBono
FRESNO, Calif. (AP) -- Last month two men and their teenage sons tackled one of the world's most unforgiving summertime hikes: the Grand Canyon's parched and searing Royal Arch Loop. Along with bedrolls and freeze-dried food, the inexperienced backpackers carried a personal locator beacon - just in case.
In the span of three days, the group pushed the panic button three times, mobilizing helicopters for dangerous, lifesaving rescues inside the steep canyon walls.
What was that emergency? The water they had found to quench their thirst "tasted salty......"
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TOPICS: Hobbies; Outdoors
KEYWORDS: 911; backpackers; calif; jpb; rescue; yuppie
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To: JoeProBono
Let them win the Darwin awards.
Or charge them for the rescues.
Ignorance is not bliss, and it should be costly.
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posted on
10/25/2009 2:29:51 PM PDT
by
HighlyOpinionated
(Abortion-Euthanasia kills the very people for whom Social Justice is needed.)
To: JoeProBono
Sometimes I think that people who ask for help should have napalm dropped on them.
3
posted on
10/25/2009 2:30:14 PM PDT
by
ClearCase_guy
(Play the Race Card -- lose the game.)
To: JoeProBono
When rescuers found them, the hikers were worried they might become dehydrated because the water they found tasted salty. They declined an evacuation, and the crew left water. Charge these idiots for the rescues.
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posted on
10/25/2009 2:33:58 PM PDT
by
SIDENET
("If that's your best, your best won't do." -Dee Snider)
To: JoeProBono
This might actually spawn a new business that could contract rescue service for the locator beacon companies. I could see prior service SF guys starting up a service like that. I
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posted on
10/25/2009 2:35:33 PM PDT
by
joesjane
(The strength of the pack is the wolf - Rudyard Kipling)
To: HighlyOpinionated
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posted on
10/25/2009 2:45:55 PM PDT
by
JoeProBono
(A closed mouth gathers no feet)
To: JoeProBono
My friend in Fresno (year Yosemite) says pals of his once responded to a guy who called for a helicopters because HE WAS TIRED.
And no, he was not lost.
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posted on
10/25/2009 2:46:45 PM PDT
by
gaijin
To: JoeProBono
Thank G_d they still had chicken mc nuggets!
We might have had to have had a trillion $$$ bailout! Again!
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posted on
10/25/2009 2:48:48 PM PDT
by
rawcatslyentist
(Ifanationexpects tobe ignorantandfree,inastateofcivilization,itexpects whatneverwas andnever will be)
To: SIDENET
9
posted on
10/25/2009 2:49:15 PM PDT
by
JoeProBono
(A closed mouth gathers no feet)
To: JoeProBono
10
posted on
10/25/2009 2:50:07 PM PDT
by
Daffynition
(What's all this about hellfire and Dalmatians?)
To: ClearCase_guy
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posted on
10/25/2009 2:51:29 PM PDT
by
JoeProBono
(A closed mouth gathers no feet)
To: Daffynition
A Controversial New Hampshire Law That Charges Those Who Get Lost
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posted on
10/25/2009 2:57:30 PM PDT
by
JoeProBono
(A closed mouth gathers no feet)
To: JoeProBono
LOL.......That is NOT a NH native! It is something that oozed and seeped over from Massachusetts.
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posted on
10/25/2009 3:04:16 PM PDT
by
Daffynition
(What's all this about hellfire and Dalmatians?)
To: HighlyOpinionated
“Or charge them for the rescues”
That was my thought. The Park Service should have hugh signs and signed agreements that rescue is available in emergencies only, and specify what is and what is not an emergency. The signers would hae to agree that if they call 911 in a non-emergency, they will pay the full costs of dispatching a rescue team.
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posted on
10/25/2009 3:07:34 PM PDT
by
EDINVA
To: JoeProBono
Empirical evidence that, if or when a national or planetary disaster occurs, metrosexuals will be some of the first to perish, and probably quick.
To: JoeProBono
Seems odd they evacuated them after a third gratuitous call. Surely the park rangers knew of some place where the bodies could be hidden.
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posted on
10/25/2009 3:08:45 PM PDT
by
Stultis
(Oceania has always been at war with Eastasia; Democrats always opposed waterboarding as torture)
To: Viking2002
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posted on
10/25/2009 3:12:16 PM PDT
by
JoeProBono
(A closed mouth gathers no feet)
To: JoeProBono
EEEEEEEKK!!!!!!
To: SIDENET
Yep. Take em to the bank for this stupid crap. That PLB ain’t room service.
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posted on
10/25/2009 3:15:34 PM PDT
by
Squantos
(Be polite. Be professional. But have a plan to kill everyone you meet)
To: Viking2002
Empirical evidence that, if or when a national or planetary disaster occurs, metrosexuals will be some of the first to perish, and probably quick.Them, and the idiots who drive around on their donut spares for months on end...
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posted on
10/25/2009 3:17:41 PM PDT
by
IYAS9YAS
(The townhalls were going great until the oPods showed up.)
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