For Better or For Worse by Lynn Johnston for August 10, 2015

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    Templo S.U.D.  over 9 years ago

    If lost, better go pick them up.

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    Argythree  over 9 years ago

    Too bad they didn’t have any material to put out a sign saying ‘Help!’ that could be seen from the air…

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    LV1951  over 9 years ago

    If someone gets a bill and doesn’t pay it, what do they do? Put them back? lol!

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    sbwertz  over 9 years ago

    In AZ we have a “stupid driver law.” If you try to cross a flooded road, get your car stuck in the water, and have to be rescued, they bill you for the cost of rescuing you.

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    ken591  over 9 years ago

    You know, just read the entire story line. They didn’t exactly get lost. They were in a storm which apparently they didn’t know about – story doesn’t say if they checked weather or if storm was “sudden”. Either way, their canoe was swamped in a storm, not quite the same as “city boys” getting lost. They’ve done pretty well surviving, give them a break.

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    Can't Sleep  over 9 years ago

    Three SARTECHs (Search and Rescue Technicians) then jumped after it. The men on the ground watched them land, pull in their parachutes, and begin quickly to open the box, erect a tent-—————————————————-Wow, talk about trained professionals! I thought they might drop a package with food and a radio transmitter. Instead, they drop a full-on rescue team!

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    Sailor46 USN 65-95  over 9 years ago

    If it’s the Coast Guard or the National Park Service (NPS), then they pick up the bill. Or rather, the taxpaying citizens of the United States do. Neither agency has a policy for charging for SAR missions.When it comes to local and state expenses, there have been some changes in recent years. Several states have passed ordinances that allow the county or state to recoup costs associated with rescue, depending on the scenario, It varies from state to state and as well as from local Gov. to local Gov.This is in the U. S. Canada may be different,It’s very difficult to Legislate against Stupid!Although, it could be argued that this scenario was more a result of bad luck than any other causality.

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    JanLC  over 9 years ago

    I, for one, appreciate your reposting Lynn’s notes in bold. It is much easier for my “older eyes” to read. Apparently M2MM never reads anyone else’s posts or he would have seen the ones you and I put up about how to bold the text and why we appreciate it being done.

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    Dr_Fogg  over 9 years ago

    reminds me of a Larson … HELF

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    amaryllis2 Premium Member over 9 years ago

    In a canyon in the southwest desert, a group of hikers (one of them an in-law of mine) was stranded by a storm and just escaped a flash flood roaring down on them. One was equipped with a ham radio. When they didn’t show up at the park station to sign back out, a rescue helicopter went searching for them in the morning, expecting to find their remains after that flood. Meantime, the ham radio had gotten them nowhere. The guy flying the chopper said, Oh, I had the repeater taken down, nobody uses those things anymore. Right. So that’s why they couldn’t get the word out about where they were and to the wives that they were okay.

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    lindz.coop Premium Member over 9 years ago

    In some counties in Michigan they do charge for the Coast Guard having to rescue folks “ice fishing” when it’s pretty obvious that the ice is too thin….like in April.

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    rfeinberg  over 9 years ago

    How many days, and still no beards?

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