Climbers got so stoned on top of mountain they couldn’t get back down

Metro UK ^

[SMGFan]

A group of climbers had to be rescued from the top of a mountain after getting so stoned they couldn’t get back down. The four walkers got stuck on top of the 3,209ft Scafell Pike in Cumbria’s Lake District – the highest peak in England.

After successfully reaching the top, however, they found themselves ‘incapacitated’ from having taken cannabis. Cumbria Police confirmed that mountain rescue and air ambulances had to be scrambled in order to rescue the climbers.

‘Persons stuck on mountain after taking cannabis. Now having to deploy mountain rescue, air support and ambulance to rescue them,’ Cumbria Police tweeted.

[SMGFan]

Should have let them sleep it off. Why waste time & resources? "deploy mountain rescue, air support and ambulance"

[DIRTYSECRET]

3k feet? give us wusses a break. No wonder we really gave it to those limits at Yorktown and Bunker Hill.

[Tax-chick]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G9rbeluKycU

[hoagy62]

Oh my.

All they had to do was lay down and start rolling. Let gravity do the work. Money saved, problem solved.

[DIRTYSECRET]

lymies-freerepublic should not correct

[Slyfox]

3,209ft

Wow that sure is high.

It must have been the combination of the weed and the extreme altitude.

[DAC21]

Must have gotten hold of that wacky tobaccy, the stuff that makes you laugh so hard you can’t get off the floor.

[TheStickman]

Hope these morons get a bill for this idiocy.

[lee martell]

For most people, once you smoke a lot of potent herb, whatever emotion you are already feeling will get magnified by ten times or more in intensity. ....So I have read.

[GnuThere]

I had to reread that because I thought surely they meant meters.
Wow.

[Flycatcher]

3200 ft??!!

So they got stuck in a valley?

[Fungi]

Coming soon to a state near you. California, your time is numbered.

[samtheman]

An airdrop of snickers bars from a single-prop plane is all I would have authorized.

[Pollster1]

That is pathetic is so many ways.

I cannot understand choosing to be incapacitated. I cannot understand looking at the glory of God’s creation from a mountaintop and needing chemicals to appreciate it. I cannot understand calling for help instead of just resting until the effects wore off. These people are major losers. Snowflakes.

[metmom]

Send them the bill.

[Hot Tabasco]

Should have let them sleep it off.

Easier said than done, they ran out of cookies.......

[Vaduz]

They sound like a California hiker every week some have to be rescued idiots.

[Dust in the Wind]

The lowest point in Colorado is the Arkansas River at 3,315 feet above sea level.

[Southside_Chicago_Republican]

I was going to post “Rocky Mountain High”, but at 3209 feet....pffft.

[ViLaLuz]

Rocky mountain high