XPost: or.politics   
   From: bshatzerNO@comcast.net   
      
   gatt wrote:   
      
   > Hey, everybody.  I have a great idea.   
      
   > Now that it's December, ball-shrivelling cold, windy as hell and the whole   
   > ass-end of the area is closed because of washouts and inclement weather, and   
   > search and rescue crews have just finished recovering one dead man lost to   
   > hypothermia and isolation, and there's more weather coming, LET'S CLIMB MT.   
   > HOOD!   
      
   > Never climbed Hood before?  Since there's a storm forecast, let's pack   
   > lightly so we're not bogged down with survival gear.  Then, when we're stuck   
   > in the storm we'll wait for some other sorry chump to come up and look for   
   > us.  Hell, the helicopters will do it.  They LOVE hovering in gusting winds   
   > and mountain winter weather in low visibility and I'm sure their families   
   > will appreciate the risk to their lives they way they did when they augered   
   > that helicopter rescuing dumbass climbers previously.   
      
   Ya' notice that Hal Lillywhite's been missing from this newsgroup the   
   last 36 hours or so?   
      
   He's up on the mountain, looking for those folks.   
      
   Peace and justice,   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)