Posted on 10/26/2021 7:08:30 AM PDT by billorites
A Colorado hiker who had wandered off the trail and got lost ignored repeated phone calls from rescuers because the hiker didn’t recognize the number, officials said.
The person started hiking Mount Elbert from the South Trailhead on October 18 around 9 a.m., Lake County Search and Rescue said. The hiker did not return by evening. Five LCSAR members searched for the hiker until early the next morning but were unsuccessful.
The missing hiker finally showed up at their place of lodging around 9:30 a.m. and the search was called off, LCSAR said.
The hiker told rescue officials they had wandered off the trail around nightfall and could not find their way back. They said they spent the night searching for the trail, and once located, bounced around onto different trails trying to locate the proper trailhead – all while not realizing that a rescue team was out looking for them.
LCSAR said the subject ignored "repeated phone calls" because they simply didn’t recognize the number.
LCSAR has now left other hikers with some advice: "If you’re overdue according to your itinerary, and you start getting repeated calls from an unknown number, please answer the phone."
Fox News has reached out to LCSAR for additional comment.
(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...
I hate getting those calls for my car warranty when I’m trying to get rescued.
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Those car warranty people are persistent!
Need a warrant for the cellular companies to release info....plus you have to hit three towers for a true triangulation....two will give you an area plus approximate distance.....one general direction and approximate distance.....
I imagine if the search went longer they may have submitted for a warrant...
If he didn’t want to answer spam. Here is a tip that could save his life next time. Change the voicemail on the phone to a message that gives his approximate location, the time, the date, his situation (lost, out of gas, car broken down, injured, etc...) and any special instructions such as staying with the car, walking toward a town (north, south, etc...). The best part of this is that even if he lost his cell phone or it stops working, voicemail still works.
Well played, sir.
To them it’s a new car....................
it doesn’t say if the hiker was male/female....hmmm...
Wonder if this guy has ever been snipe hunting?
Democrat?
Got you both beat. Not too long ago I got a warranty sales call concerning a 2004 truck that I haven’t owned since 2007.
Four posts in! Nice job.
Maybe this person was doing something illegal. Explaining much of the stupidity.
Would be rescuers should be aware that fatigue, dehydration, hunger, and panic make people do stupid things; and the people most likely to become lost, etc., aren’t likely to be the savviest in the first place. Telling people to answer their phones regardless is not going to fix that.
Practical suggestion for LSCAR: Add “Rescue” or “Lake Co Rescue” to their cell phone info. Their calls would read out as such on phones of even the dumbest hikers. D’oh!
Has a phone but is lost?? LOL! Moron.
What the heck is this? Were there multiple people lost or has Fox gone totally woke? Read the article and note there are no references to the gender of the hiker.
And they are working hard, not to identify the sex of the individual. We are told it is a hiker, but never referred to as “he” or “she”, but rather as “they”.
You really have to bend over backwards to use these gender neutral terms, to avoid identifying sex.
Then you wonder if the individual prefers these gender bending pronouns, and that’s why these descriptions are in the news stories.
Although politically correct, the use of "they," "their" and "them" as indefinite singular pronouns remains a big pet peeve of mine. If Karl Marx were writing today and wanted his writing style to be fashionably woke, he would have to write, "from each according to their ability, to each according to their needs."
Life is hard, even harder if your stupid.
Very amusing!
Yeah! And people who are selling something or bill collectors.
Hate those calls.
That’s why rarely give out my cell number.
Although there is a naughty part of me that wants to post it! LOL!
You are correct. Thank you
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