You are always going to have stories about the unbelievably dumb, the incurably insane and the unreasonably optimistic who mess up...

The one thing to keep in mind is they are all rare enough to be newsworthy and if situations like this one were common they would be too normal to be worth reporting as news.

I agree the boneheads should be charged in this case and I hope if they fight it their lawyers defending them leave them penniless.

I say that if the charge is high enough then folks will get the idea that SAR is serious stuff and not something to call for frivolous reasons. At the same time they will know it is there if they actually need it.