http://dailychronicle.com/articles/2007/12/30/news/30rescue.txtSearch and rescue responds to rescue beacon - at hotel
A bit of hotel room fun brought a group of six college-aged students more attention than they bargained for Friday evening, the Gallatin County Sheriff's Office reported Saturday.
Around 6 p.m., the group activated a personal locator beacon at their hotel on North Seventh Avenue, possibly attempting to locate each other with the device, Undersheriff Jim Oberhofer said.
“They thought it interacted with their avalanche beacons. It did not,” he said. “They didn't realize it communicated with a satellite.”
Answer to Question in Subject: The Internet spreads word of your stupidity far and wide.
Seriously, Doug, thank you for doing all your hard work… including doing all you can think of to make PLBs idiot-proof. (Too bad the world just produces better idiots to defeat the idiot proofing.) Having resources wasted like this has to be extremely frustrating to those involved.
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