I know it has been a while since this has come up in the media, but something reminded me of it the other day.
I just want to say that if you find yourself in the wilderness, trapped under a tree, and you cut off your own leg, you might deserve to be called a lot of things but hero is not one of them. You might be justified in calling yourself pain tolerant, or skilled at amputation, but I dub thee idiot.
You did tell people where you were going? You can live three days without water and a lot longer, maybe weeks, without food and chances are pretty good that you have some of both on your person. You are wearing halfway intelligent clothing?
The tree will keep you in one place for handy location by the search and rescue people. Stay put. Make noise. You do have that emergency whistle?
Going the rest of your life without a limb may be a small price to pay for celebrity-hood, but it doesn't make you a hero.
Thursday, June 18, 2009
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I don't know what you are talking about but if this fool did that what an idiot. You make some very valid points :)
Actually this kind of thing comes up every few years. There are some shows about surviving in the wilderness that don't really add to general public intelligence, either.
There's also that little detail of leaving a blood trail for some kind of predator to follow.
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