Totally OT but current

daniel peterman · 2006-12-18T10:45:27+00:00

We see on the news about these three climbers who lost their way in Oregon. For over a week now dozens of people using helicopters, RPVs, radios, climbing gear, hundreds of person hours and risking their lives to find these 3 lost guys. Who is paying for all this? The lost guys won't pay for it because they are probably dead. The question is... why? I had a bad car accident 3 years ago where they had to chopper me out of a canyon and guess what? I got a bill for 25,000 bux and I'm still paying for it. If they never find these guys and the national guard and rescue teams have gone to all this effort who gets the bill?

Dec 18, 2006 41 Replies

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Gunner 19 years ago

Ah! Must be a side effect of ozone depletion and global warming.

Gunner

Rule #35 "That which does not kill you, has made a huge tactical error"

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Peter 19 years ago

Hah. I tried that one after coming off a ladder. Rang a neighbour on my cellphone, both of us first aid qualified. I knew I had a broken elbow, wasn't sure about the femur except it definitely wasn't a displaced fracture. Got up with help, tried weight bearing, sat in chair & we called the ambulance. Turned out I had multiple fractures of all 3 bones in the elbow and a fractured pelvic girdle. If it was just the arm we woulda driven to the hospital. 45 minutes out of town.

BTW except for getting the phone out of the overalls I *didn't* move until my friend turned up just in case I had spinal damage. All the bits worked.

PDW

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