Where the heck is Sasquatch when you need him?
Did they get their Obama t-shirts sweaty?
Don’t the people being rescued have to pay for these rescues?
“The water they had found to quench their thirst “tasted salty.”
It was also an odd shade of yellow.
Charge them money for the “rescue”! Simple solution.
Charge them at least $50,000 for each ‘emergency’ that wasn’t. No bargaining, no reductions.
While the waste of money, and risk to emergency services personnel is a serious issue; the biggest problem is the “boy who cried wolf” effect. Someday, someone who really needs help, isn’t going to get it, because of all the false alarms.
> Recently, a couple from New Bruswick, British Columbia activated their beacon when they climbed a steep trail and could not get back down.
New Brunswick is a Province on Canada’s east coast. British Columbia is a Province on Canada’s west coast. This couple was therefore about as lost as they could possibly be...
“In September, a hiker from Placer County was panning for gold in New York Canyon when he became dehydrated and used his rescue beacon to call for help.”
Um.......let’s see. He was panning for gold, which implies that there was water where he was.
Uh...need I say more?
hungry pumas -—— either that or declare it open season on stupidity. I’ll by a license for that.
In many ways this isn’t new just that so many more idiots who can’t tie their own shoes are out side ‘in nature’.
Frankly I say at the first push of the button if it is not an emergency then you ought to be shot on the spot and fed to whatever wild life is around
I would mandate that the makers of the locator beacons include a "self-destruct" feature that can be activated by rescue personnel.
If they don't want the "self-destruct" feature they can equip the unit to deliver an incapacitating electric shock to the idiot user (also activated by rescue personnel).
The third and final option is to equip the unit to inject the user with a syringe full of testosterone.
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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.
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.