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Tim Holding was missing - now found 2-Sep-2009 At 1:51:08 AM dunno23

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Tim holding has shares in Epirb companies.

--> there is no-way (unless he was high on something illicit) that a supposed experienced ex army dude that did survival training can't walk 4kms back to his car - even if he did veer off 100m and sprain an ankle. (which he didn't)

I would expect an army dude to be able to crawl on his belly back to safety (or to complete his mission) .... but he was find sitting on an out crop that led nowhere. Either the survival training at the Army isn't what it's all scratched up to be or Tim Holding really was just sitting there taking in the views tripping. (hell the carparks at some ski resorts to the cafes are further away than what he was from his car)

Something is definitely rotten in Denmark on this one.

I propose a conspiracy: (especially now that a "spy" plane is involved)

Tim and some of his cronies in the upper echelon of society staged this whole incident to "make us buy epirbs"
==see this
Call for EPIRBs for lone bushwalkers - Yahoo!7 News
http://news.yahoo.com.au/a/-/local/5903660/call-for-epirbs-for-lone-bushwalkers/

already they (tim and his cronnies) have proposed to fine people in state forests that are found without an epirb. So now when you go anywhere off a track you will have to first rent an epirb.

Imagine wanting to go on a simple picnic to let's say the yarra ranges, (full of state forests) ... as soon as you get out of the parking lot you will have to tote your Kannad or GME epirb. - otherwise you will be fined - ohh let's say $200 .. and the ranger will tell you to stay in your car, or go home.

Uh don't we live in a great world.

I can see the eprib rental profits skyrocketing in the next 6 months.... I am awaiting the new government policy. (I am also placing stock into Kannad)

Another possibility is that they(the governement) will require us to "register" before we leave. I can image having to have to go into some big corporate Like the new Big camping stores and having to have to go through a "licensee" to check your proposed itinerary, with an equipment checklist (you may even have to have your bags checked before you leave, bringing airport style scrutiny out into the public domian)

This whole Tim Holding hiking trip isn't going to end next week ---> it's going to be a long haul of new an interesting profitable government policy, to nanny and tax us.