Posted on 05/02/2007 3:45:25 PM PDT by Types_with_Fist
You would think these idiots might have some medical training to identify the signs heat exhaustion, besides "he's not breathing."
How touching.
It was a survival course; somebody was bound to fail it eventually. Very sad. How many others have appeared in as bad a shape as this guy, yet made it through? Ugh.
“I wanted him to accomplish getting to the water and the cave for rest,” he wrote. “He asked me to go get the water for him. I said I was not going to leave him. … Shortly thereafter I had a bad feeling and turned to Dave and found no sign of breathing.”
In my book, this is negligent homicide.
The man asked for water a 100 yards away from the source.
I would think that if he could have gone another 100 yards to get it, he would have.
Let me back up a bit before I get blasted by some one. Reports are he left the bar Saturday night after being offered a cab by the staff.
All signs would led a reasonable man to conclude that he was drunk.
Darwin Alert! Darwin Alert!
So are the 6 people who continued on with the “course” after this participant’s death.
Unlike this guy you are still alive to write about it, thank the Lord and your skills.....It sounds to me the leaders of this group did not know what they were doing....what say you ?
LOL!!!!!
Vomiting is a sure sign of heat stroke.
Another really useful tip would have been: If you find a stream and have a bottle, fill it. Surviving is more about using all of your resources than about being "tough".
Is not helping someone a criminal act now?
All signs would led a reasonable man to conclude that he was drunk.
Great, he started out dehydrated from drinking.
Don't these dummies know that booze dehydrates body cells?
Oh yeah, in some cases. Google “Good Samaritan Laws.”
Sounds like he evaporated.
I keep re-reading this article and it just makes my heart sad, that supposedly competent people couldn’t or wouldn’t recognize some one in dire straights.
- DeTar...is trained in wilderness first aid
- O’Neal didn’t inform Buschow about his emergency water.
- Bernstein, the school’s owner...said instructors can
give water based on their assessment of a camper’s needs.
there has to be a civl suit in here somewhere...
And these geniuses did nothing and let him die.
Makes sense to me. My son has been working on his wilderness survival merit badge. For each trip they were required to bring a certain amount of water.
Bingo. And that's what the instructors should have been teaching...instead, it sounds like they got a rise out of tormenting their customers.
I'd say they deserve to be sued.
And these geniuses did nothing and let him die.
Obviously they are products of their environment. Stupidity breeds stupidity.
Lots of athletic types get their heads handed to them coming here thinking they can out hike the old farts. It’s amazing what an elevation difference of a mile or more can do to a seaboard ego. Also, when you live on the coast, 90 degrees can be unbearable.
I would much rather spend a day in the desert at 6000 ft. and 100 degrees than an hour in Mobile at 90 degrees.
Actually, I’d rather spend a week in solitary confinement than an hour in Mobile.
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