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Bushwalker missing in the Bluies?? 26-Jul-2009 At 2:12:22 PM Paz

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On 26/07/2009 Tris wrote:
When you start requiring (either by law
>or by social obligation) money to be paid for a rescue, you start moving
>towards a culture of people and organisations expecting money in return
>for a rescue. This culture would lead to the increasing reliance on insurance,
>which would lead to an inaccessibility to our sport by less well off people.

Hardly, it's called not being a c*^t of a person.

>I even believe that no money should be expected if the situation arose
>out of stupidity or negligence.

Why? Surely it would be more ethical if the media paid someone who actually knew what they were doing and had a story worth telling...

I'd rather listen to olde Cory telling us what constitutes a smashing party than this douchebag, and I know if I was one of the folks who went looking for him, I'd now have second thoughts about risking my own skin to help some stupid f**k from now on