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2007-05-03 -Lurid Crime Tales-

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Posted by ryuge 2007-05-03 09:29|| || Front Page|| [11128 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 He didn't pass the test.

Posted by JohnQC 2007-05-03 09:40|| 2007-05-03 09:40|| Front Page Top

#2 If a DI ignored the obvious symptoms of advanced life threatening conditions, he/she'd be up on courts martial charge for homicide. The military doesn't tolerate such mistreatment on its personnel, who it pays and expects to undergo harsh training, to include similar 'volunteer' training as in the Rangers, et al. Why is this tolerated?

Posted by Procopius2k 2007-05-03 10:34|| 2007-05-03 10:34|| Front Page Top

#3 led by expert guides...

Yeah. What would we do without "experts"?

Posted by tu3031 2007-05-03 10:36|| 2007-05-03 10:36|| Front Page Top

#4 ....led by ~~expert~~ guides on a wilderness-survival adventure designed to test their physical and mental toughness.

Jones - Graduate
Smith - Graduate
Brown - Graduate
Buschow - Attended, non-graduate

Life is tough, but it's tougher when you're stupid..... and enjoy Extreme Sports.

Posted by Besoeker 2007-05-03 10:43|| 2007-05-03 10:43|| Front Page Top

#5 This is what our society has come too. We have to pay big money to go out and die of thirst in the wilderness nowdays.

Posted by DarthVader">DarthVader 2007-05-03 11:06|| 2007-05-03 11:06|| Front Page Top

#6 Right Darth - and our elem. schools won't let the kids play tag 'cause one of them may fall and skin a knee. Sheese

Posted by GORT 2007-05-03 12:33|| 2007-05-03 12:33|| Front Page Top

#7 If these ~~idiots~~individuals want to push the limits of their endurance, let them enlist. Otherwise they're just self-absorbed wankers. That said, the actions of the "guides" sound like textbook depraved indifference to me, waiver or not.

Posted by xbalanke 2007-05-03 13:13|| 2007-05-03 13:13|| Front Page Top

#8 The Smokie Mtns are nearby. Every year one or more dies from exposure because they did not understand the risks and were not prepared--they usually die of exposure.

Posted by JohnQC 2007-05-03 13:59|| 2007-05-03 13:59|| Front Page Top

#9 Legal waivers or not, the subject displayed textbook symptoms of extreme and life-threatening dehydration. It was financial interest that drove the guides' decision to withhold emergency water from Buschow. The school's track record be damned. When someone mistakes a tree for a person and starts talking to it, they are already in a dangerous condition. The guides are responsible for gross negligence resulting in voluntary manslaughter. Jail time should await them.

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2007-05-03 14:38|| 2007-05-03 14:38|| Front Page Top

#10 PS: Even a signed legal waiver doesn't mitigate culpability for gross negligence.

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2007-05-03 14:40|| 2007-05-03 14:40|| Front Page Top

#11 Well, can he get his money back at least?

Posted by Perfesser 2007-05-03 15:48|| 2007-05-03 15:48|| Front Page Top

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