Posted on 03/07/2005 12:30:03 PM PST by Ramonan
Paragraph 3: BRAVO!
SPOT ON.
To quote another Freeper
"Evolution Stops when Stupidity ceases to be fatal"
Agreed, this was "stupid" not ignorant.
Did they ask to be resued? I'd hate to see police manufacture crises in order to start billing for their "services". ;-)
Here's a permanent fiscal solution: a tax on IQ deficiency. the Rats would naturally object, as it would target one of their core constituencies.
They should just consider it "tuition" costs from the School of Hard Knocks.
I can't figure out which is worse: skiing into the woods at midnight in subzero temperatures, or not beinng able to follow three sets of ski trails back to their origin the next day.
Best idea I heard all year.
"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits".
One way to look at it is, "here's your life back, and it only cost $4,000". I bet lots of people out in -25 below zero with nothing but breath mints would have jumped at the bargain.
Do fire departments charge for stupid fires?
Isn't this why we pay taxes to pay for these services?
"Even if it is a democracy, in a democracy it don't matter how stupid you are, you still get an equal share." Lennie Pike in Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad, World.
I was thinking the same thing.
How much is your life worth?
They were billed for intentionally ignoring trail warning signs. THe title makes it appear they were unaware of the signs.
That is an excellent, LEVEL-HEADED post!
Stupid is forever...ignorance can be fixed. SF
Or, conversely, it might cause people to not intentionally ignore trail matkers.
There is already a tax on low IQ's; the lottery.
I went to college in VT. One of my classmates was a VT State Trooper. In winter storms, if out-of-staters went off road, he would summon help, and once back on the road, he would give them a ticket for failure to stay in marked lines or something like that.
Well done, VT.
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