This case is an example of why some people should be required to pay for a rescue. Taxpayers are not interested in paying for this type of adventure. These jerks should foot the bill for their own adventure, like I have to pay for all expenses if I go heliskiing, skydiving, flying to the moon, or whatever.

Question for the rescuers here, if every person you rescued consistently had the attitude of these boys, would you hesitate to rescue some people? What if they had these attitudes AND you were unpaid? Those may be hard questions to imagine, but there must be a point at which there's no longer any personal satisfaction or sense of duty.

According to article...

http://www.fredericknewspost.com/sections/news/display.htm?StoryID=143870
Quote:

Only eight states -- California, Colorado, Hawaii, Idaho, Maine, New Hampshire, Oregon and Vermont -- have laws that permit agencies to charge people for their rescues under any circumstances. Of those, only New Hampshire has billed with any consistency.


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