XPost: or.politics   
   From: Mencken@pdx.net   
      
   In article <_hnfh.3087$Et5.927@trndny07>,   
    Lobby Dosser  wrote:   
      
   > Bill Shatzer  wrote:   
   >   
   > > 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.   
   > >   
   >   
   > Are there idiots out there as we speak?   
      
   There are idiots everywhere.  They not uncommonly remove themselves from   
   the gene pool.  The only problem in cases such as this, the can take   
   others along with them.   
      
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