JimH wrote:
Calif Bill wrote:
"JimH" wrote in message
ups.com...
A very lucky man:


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"SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) -- A Chilean navy search plane has located an
American solo sailor on his disabled yacht off the southern tip of
South America, and a Chilean navy officer said rescuers will probably
reach him early Friday.

A fishing trawler was sailing to rescue the Southern California sailor,
Ken Barnes, whose round-the-world solo trip was interrupted a week ago
when his 44-foot ketch hit a storm that broke both its masts and soaked
Barnes' supplies and food.

Barnes, 47, lost contact with friends when the battery of his satellite
telephone ran down on Wednesday, but his girlfriend Cathy Chambers said
he managed another brief call again Thursday morning, saying he was
surviving on Pop Tarts and granola bars. He has a small cut on his leg,
she said."
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Complete story he
http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/americ....ap/index.html


And who is going to pay for the rescue? Not that he should not be rescued,
but seems as if like the climbers in Oregon, every time someone gets in
trouble while doing a dangerous endevor, the people, via government, are
asked to pay for the screwup.

I agree. If folks put themselves in harms way intentionally and end up
needing rescue they should pay the bill. But that should not stop the
effort to save a human life.

I don't know about you, but around here we pay taxes just for those
things. You are putting yourself in harms way every time your furnace
turns on, risk of fire, you know. You are putting yourself in harms way
when you go outside and get your mail, you are always at some sort of
risk. So, again in these parts we pay taxes for fire departments,
emergency services and such.