[cripplecreek]

Charge him the full cost of rescue and really make him regret it.

[USNBandit]

"I was freaking out and thought I wasn't going to make it," he said. "But then I remembered that because of my dancing I was in a better position than most people.'"

Yeah, that's the first thing people yell for in an emergency, "Is somebody here a dancer!?"

[heartwood]

The full cost of rescue could include a rescuer’s life. If the rock is too slick to climb and the weather’s too bad to fly, there isn’t going to be a rescue.

[Ghost of Philip Marlowe]

That is exactly what we should do.

A lot of these back-to-earth urbanites are leftists who want government-run medicine and who, because of the cost-burden that people put on such a system, want the government to restrict personal behavior in order to keep costs down (like outlaw salt and fat and sugar, etc.).

Yet, they do something really, really stupid, they get in a bad predicament, they call the government to bail them out, (funded by the tax-payer), and then want to walk away scot-free.

I agree. Make them pay. Make it hurt.

[SoJoCo]

There was no rescue. They called 911 and the operator told them they were on their own. They had to wait out the weather and get down on their own.