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Main Forums => The Roundtable => Topic started by: TechMan on October 30, 2011, 11:50:41 AM
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http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2011/10/couple-lost-in-apple-orchard-calls-911/ (http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2011/10/couple-lost-in-apple-orchard-calls-911/)
What is up with Mass. idiots? (Don't mean this towards any of our members that are residents of MA.)
Mark and Marcia Rosenthal of Boston when to an orchard to pick some apples. They wondered too far from their car (1/2 mile - 3/4 mile) and became worried as the sun started to go down that they would not be able to find their way back to their car. They called the orchard's main number and when they didn't get an answer the called 911. Police showed up to the still open orchard and directed the owners to a landmark where the couple was waiting to be rescued. When one of the owner's went out to "rescue" said idiots, the man asked (jokingly)"So how many rescues a year?” And owner replied, ‘Well, through 85 years of business, none.” “You know, we have a hedge maze too. So we said to them after, ‘We have a hedge maze and we’re not gonna let you in,” one of the owners joked. “He was a comical guy.”
Mark Rosenthal had been an on-air meteorologist for a Boston news station for many years.
Darwin take them away. :facepalm: :facepalm: :facepalm:
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Some people should have permission slips to be allowed to leave the city. :facepalm:
When we lived in Arizona, we used to hunt jack rabbits in the orange groves. Many of them were allowed to grow wild when they were being rotated, and yet I never managed to get lost.
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CHARGE THEM FOR THE RESCUE
That might put a stop to hanging out at a landmark and waiting for the rescue. How can one get lost in an orchard?
[popcorn]
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Maybe they were afraid they'd starve to death?..... =|
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Actual incident from this weekend
Them: Youngish couple come in: Hi, we want to go trailrunning on ABC trail.
Us: Don't do it. It's a treacherous, steep trail and you could easily get hurt and be stuck in an area where it would take several hours to get in and then several hours to carry you out. None of our trails are suitable for trailrunning due to the terrain and conditions"
Them: OK, we'll walk instead.
3-4 hours later
The guy comes running into the visitor center, panting heavily.
Us: What's going on?"
Him: "My GF broke her ankle on the trail, about 4 miles in, I came out and ran up the road to get help"
Us: OK, how did she break her ankle and what's the closest landmark to her exact position so we can get the SAR team enroute?"
Him "We were trail running..."
*expletive deleted*ing IDIOTS. Also, they did not fill out the registration card, like we TOLD them too, and if one of them had not been able to get out of the woods to get us, or if they had gotten lost...it would have delayed rescue much longer.
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if one of them had not been able to get out of the woods to get us, or if they had gotten lost...it would have delayed rescue much longer.
Too bad =(
Darwin got cheated this time ;)
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Too bad =(
Darwin got cheated this time ;)
My sentiments, also. Don't you have Bears or Mountain Lions? They need to eat too.
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My sentiments, also. Don't you have Bears or Mountain Lions? They need to eat too.
Yea, no *expletive deleted*it!
"Here is your bag of fresh rescue bacon to carry with you. Just swing it around your head if you get lost."