RE: [at-l] Billing for rescuing idiots. . . .

[Rick Bombaci <rpb@eoni.com>]

Yes!  Good idea!  Probably would turn more heads than copious warnings of
bad weather, etc.

At 07:31 PM 12/31/99 -0600, you wrote:
>Perhaps one way to deter the novice hikers from getting in over their
>head, and perhaps save some lives, would be to laminate, frame, and post
>at trailheads the first newspaper articles that detail the amount billed
>to the first careless or unprepared hiker who is rescued and found
>liable for the costs. I bet a lot of folk who would ignore a sign
>warning of hypothermic death would take seriously a real-world example
>of financial ruin....
>
>Al
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