#not two days ago someone was on the local rideshare Facebook group saying they needed a ride to a glacier they wanted to hike

[thegreenmeridian]

“Coast guard rescuer” nah the Coast Guard are paid.

Her rescuers were a fully volunteer search and rescue team. The SAR’s primary role in our society is pulling moronic tourists out of situations like this, where there’s multiple signs up saying “you will die if you go past this point” but uwu you need a cool photo for social media so you have to ignore it. If this is where I think it is, there are SO many signs telling you not to do this, in multiple languages. Plus usually a few park rangers trying their best to spot anyone dumb enough to do this. Occasionally a guy in a food truck in the car park debating if it’s worth getting a mouthful of abuse for saying “hey it’s really dangerous, maybe don’t try that.”

Cannot possibly overemphasise how extremely fucking tired we all are of you people coming to this island and putting our search and rescue guys in danger for your instagram photos. I know multiple guys who’ve had the traumatic experience of hauling a corpse off a mountain or out of the sea.

I’ve laid awake at night listening to a helicopter going to the mountain nearby, wondering if they’re going for the tourist I personally tried and failed to convince of the danger of climbing that thing. They were, and it was a body retrieval. And I had to look the SAR lads in the eye the next morning, wondering if I could have been more persuasive. Wondering how I’d have been able to apologise to their families if they’d died trying to collect that hiker’s body.

Really just. This isn’t funny. This is the selfish idiocy we’re all dealing with on a very regular basis when you people come en masse to this country and treat it like winter Disneyland without a solitary shit for either the ecosystem or the people that live here, and most of us are at the point of thinking you should be on the hook for the cost of rescue/corpse retrieval. A fair few are at the point of thinking we shouldn’t haul you idiots out of situations of your own making at all.

POOR GRANDMA!!!