[pct-l] lawsuits in wilderness settings...Wake up

[Reinhold Metzger]

Does this surprise you guys?
We are living in a world where society has gotten used to the Govt. 
taking care of all your needs even rewarding you for damages caused by 
your own negligence or stupidity.
Wake up.... the time of self reliance is a time gone by....it is history.

JMT Reinhold
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Ed wrote:
Hi Tortoise,   I agree with you 100%. I was going to post on this saying 
just what you have said.   I want to add that that $1,900,000 that the 
US Forest Service had to pay the family was badly needed by the US 
Forest Service - which is already underfunded and 
therefore understaffed.  This will have to cost Rangers and other forest 
service personal their jobs.   Anyone who sleeps with food in their 
tents - or lets their kid do it in bear country - is taking a calculated 
risk.   MendoRider-Hiker       ________________________________ From: 
Tortoise <Tortoise73 at charter.net 
<http://mailman.backcountry.net/mailman/listinfo/pct-l>> To: shon 
mcganty <smcganty at yahoo.com 
<http://mailman.backcountry.net/mailman/listinfo/pct-l>> Cc: "pct-l at 
backcountry.net <http://mailman.backcountry.net/mailman/listinfo/pct-l>" 
<pct-l at backcountry.net 
<http://mailman.backcountry.net/mailman/listinfo/pct-l>> Sent: Thursday, 
December 22, 2011 10:00 PM Subject: Re: [pct-l] lawsuits in wilderness 
settings Maybe I am too, too cynical but in cases like this it seems to 
me that the plaintiffs don't want to accept their own responsibility, or 
that bad things happen. And often it seems to be a desire to get rich 
off of their tragedy. When the big awards are made, it encourages others 
to also sue. Maybe the parents should be charged with criminal 
negligence or reckless child endangerment or some such because they went 
camping and didn't inform themselves of the dangers and they let their 
child have a candy bar in the tent with him! Also why didn't the family 
blame their higher power for letting their child be killed? Tortoise