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HERO? You've got to be kidding me!
Posted On: 12/20/2007 08:09:26
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OK...so let me get this straight...some guy takes his family (READ PUTTING SMALL CHILDREN AT RISK) up a mountain and into the wild to cut down a tree for their holiday (presumably so they can save a few bucks....c'mon, they aren't that expensive, and it IS illegal to cut down trees in a National Forest, but I digress). They do this COMPLETELY UNPREPARED. No food. No water. No extra clothing. No compass. No matches or lighters, no light source or signaling device. What do they have? A saw....and the only reason they have that is so they can illegally kill a tree for two weeks worth of vain pleasure in the name of their religion. They put the people in the search parties and the pilots looking for them at risk. Tens of thousands of dollars wasted on finding and saving someone that is just going to contaminate the gene pool. This guy (and through him...his family) should have been appearing on the Darwin Awards list. Instead, he gets media attention, called a HERO and touts his faith in a god for him and his family being saved. How about thanking the pilot? How about paying back all those people that put their lives at risk to try and find them? I'm sorry to report that a more appropriate ending to this story would have been that 3 well fed mountain lions were seen cavorting happily in the snow after a fortuitous meal. Really people. Why do we tolerate and even REWARD this kind of stupidity in our world?
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