Scores of Boy Scouts Fall Ill From Heat While Waiting for President to Arrive at Jamboree

COX.Net AP Story ^ | July 27, 2005 | MICHAEL FELBERBAUM, Associated Press Writer

[Dont_Tread_On_Me_888]

Ever since they started allowing gay scout leaders, clear thinking has come to a halt with the Boy Scouts. Here in just one Jamboree, we have two major events that either caused death, or caused widespread illness.

In the pre-gay Scout leader days, part of the Scout motto was to be "mentally awake".

Have they removed that from the Scout motto, considering the events of the past few days?

[SandRat]

If they were doing that they'd bring them to Phoenix Arizona or Yuma Arizona.

[Dont_Tread_On_Me_888]

I'm surprised that people can even function in temperatures above 90 degrees.

Every Saturday here in Orlando, the guys and I go play hard-court tennis outside, with temperatures above 90, humidity about the same, and with court temperature from the hard-court probably above 120-degrees. We play hard and run hard for three hours.

I sweat, I go through about 64 oz. of water, but I have a blast.

I guess one just gets used to it.

[SandRat]

On Nation,....Under Therapy!

[SandRat]

ummm,... Scouts do not allow gay Adult Scout Leaders. As to the clear thinking there wasn't any and they violated every bit of the rules and the training on Safe Scouting.

[MikeHu]

That's a fallacy. One's tolerance to heat and cold are genetic more than conditioned. That's a common misunderstanding of the variability (diversity) and adaptability of people. Some people are cold tolerant more than others and some people are more heat tolerant than others. To assume that we are all born the same and that one can condition or get used to those thresholds is one of the great health dangers. That's why there are different ideal climates for people and these sensitivities are not just all in their head; the body is giving them valuable information about its operating conditions. They shouldn't be running marathons on the hottest day of the century -- or playing tennis on torturous conditions. They should be playing them under optimal conditions for peak performances. Otherwise, they'd run the pole vault in a hurricane.

[Dont_Tread_On_Me_888]

ummm,... Scouts do not allow gay Adult Scout Leaders.

We hope so, but considering all the attempts, one would think the RATs slipped a few in under the cover. The RATs seem to get everything to go their way eventually.