It's honestly almost worse in a situation like this where it was an accident and everyone still needs to point out that the dumb woman is at fault.
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Amanda Eller, Hiker Lost in Hawaii Forest, Is Found Alive After 17 Days
- Thread starter Dalek
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It's honestly almost worse in a situation like this where it was an accident and everyone still needs to point out that the dumb woman is at fault.
I'm going to argue the dumb thing she did was go off the trail. Never go off the trail. There's zero reason to - if there's something interesting to see the trail would go by it. If she was that tired than take a nap right next to the trail.
Over the past many years I've been on I don't even know how many hiking trails around the Pacific Northwest. I've never left the trail because to do so is idiotic and pointless.
... it's worse in a situation like this rather than situations where the phrase is actually relevant, such as rape?
The fact that you doubled down in the worst way possible is something else.
ITT: "she's dumb!" - "no she's not!" - "yeah she is" - "no she's not."
Oy vey, someone close this already.
Oy vey, someone close this already.
How am I being childish? Are you literally only going to post to antagonize? Lets at least get into a discussion friend!
If that's the case why did this woman have to resort to eating moths that landed on her and she was rescued due to searching for any edible vegetation she could find near a stream.
She said herself she didn't know what was safe to eat and what wasn't. Nobody's arguing she's Bear Grylls but on much of that trail there's about six or seven edible fruits and plants if you do a tiny bit of research first so he's right in that sense.
It does. Fucking hippies 'trusting in the universe' and shit only to have authorities spend millions saving their asses. I know people exactly like this.
She probably both left her phone and the marked trail for the same reason, which was probably to get more in touch with nature, or something along those lines. It totally worked, too.
I mean, who's gonna pay for the rescue?
It's the same for idiots who go out in a boat and get lost and have to cost a shit ton of money to rescue them.
Is it hard to be smart?
"No cellphone? No water? Went the wrong way because of a gut feeling? This movie's premise has too many logical leaps to work as a believable story. 1/5"
A better movie would be about the Death Valley Germans: http://www.otherhand.org/home-page/search-and-rescue/the-hunt-for-the-death-valley-germans/
Warning: IIRC takes a good 45 mins to read, but extremely engrossing if you want to see how a series of bad decisions compound over time.
That's a very good read, I read it some time ago during my true crime phase.
Next week I'm going to the mountains, I'll be sure to contact resetera if I get lost.
That's my thought on this, but ERA tends to focus on the negative aspect of the story (she's stupid etc, she should have done this differently) instead of the positive aspects (she survived on a broken leg eating berries and moths for 17 days)
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/25/us/hawaii-hiker.html
What are the positives of going off trail on purpose and putting other people in situations where they could also get hurt.
What are the positives of going off trail on purpose and putting other people in situations where they could also get hurt.
Either people completely missed the part where she woke up disoriented, so her gut was obviously off kilter, or the story was updated to include that.
Remember the 127 Hours guy? He's been made out to be a motivational speaker, hero, etc. for his bravery. I knew (and still know) a guy that did S&R in Southern Utah at the time. His response? Fuck that guy. That guy's an idiot. His stupidity is what puts S&R folks in danger trying to save dumbasses all the time down there. He would shit on him constantly and get pissed any time he made a media appearance.
The consequences of not thinking ahead and preparing can reach far beyond your own dumb self. And those consequences aren't "no reason" to criticize someone for not taking two seconds to think about what they're doing before they do it. By the time someone's 35, they should have enough life experience to know better.