Charge them at least $50,000 for each ‘emergency’ that wasn’t. No bargaining, no reductions.
You'd think that as a condition of getting one of these devices the users would be required to accept terms like that.
why give out freebies for emergency that was?
they take on the trek by choice. if their choice costs public money- pay it back.
definitely make them pay. why quibble about whether or not it is a “false” alarm.
these people called three times. once cuz they had no water. by the time rescue arrived they found a stream. short time later they beacon again with the funny taste complaint. then they called a third time.
unbelievable. these idiots need to be ruined on national tv. perhaps some family members who have needed legitimately needed rescue personnel can weigh in.
> 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.