She's busy with her new White House gig. 
Posted on 10/27/2009 9:38:04 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
Well, remember that liberals don’t want their boys in the Boy Scouts anymore. They consider the Boy Scouts to be worthless because of “discrimination” against gay lesbian and trans-something scout leaders. To the liberals, any life safety or outdoor survival training is cancelled out because they aren’t sensitive enough to trans-lesbian peoples.
> Charge them at least $50,000 for each ‘emergency’ that wasn’t. No bargaining, no reductions.
Perhaps an easier answer would be to pass a Statute that requires these devices to be compulsorily insured for five million United States Dollars against the cost of each rescue. Compulsory insurance like what they do for automobiles.
Five million United States Dollars would just barely cover the cost of a full-on air-sea rescue 100 miles offshore.
The insurance companies could set whatever premiums made sense for such coverage. They would soon lose their sense-of-humor about “Yuppie 9-11” and make the insurance unaffordable to any but the most die-hard and committed adventurers.
The Free Market fixes everything. Problem solved.
I am afraid that they will sue you for the growth of extra body hair and hoarse voice.:-)
Charge a massive fee for every call. Those calls that end up being non-emergency, triple the fee.
I say those devices should be banned. They are being used by people who put themselves at risk. An alternative would be to let the devices only be activated by rescuers during a search and rescue for a missing child or something.
Another solution would be to make any user of the devices liable for all expenses if there was not a genuine life-threatening emergency.
Except that the die-hard committed adventurers would be least likely to push the panic button. So ... their rates would likely be much lower than for some urban pansy.
She's busy with her new White House gig.
Make them single-use only. Push the button just one time, and the whole unit needs to be replaced, not repaired.
And yet he survived without one.
I'm just amazed he was able to walk out of that canyon carrying the weight of his enormous b*lls.
I think they should make a UP model that looks like the real one but when you push the button it only activates an MP3 recording of hysterical laughter
That guy went hiking and rock climbing ALONE.
He doesn’t deserve to have a device.
It was more about the quality of the emergency - being trapped under a rock definitely counts as one. Not like “this water tastes funny.”
Yep.
But he’d still have two arms if he’d used a little common sense before his trek.
EggsAckley,
You assumed incorrectly. Google “dry panning for gold”
They’re raising warriors. We aren’t. They win. Just sayin’
Too salty? That would be the creek in Garnet Canyon. If they had prepared properly, they’d have known it, and carried enough water to make it to the river with a healthy reserve. Before this GPS beacon thingie came along, these morons would have died.
Wilderness is seldom more unforgiving than along the Royal Arch route. I’ve only hiked a small part of it and it was a real adventure. Didn’t see any other humans for days.
Ah......okay. My bad.
Doing "Jack Links" commercials.
Good thing they didn't hike into Carlsbad Caverns. They probably would have eaten the bat guano.
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