Hood Climbers vs Crystal Snowboarders

[jclements]

Oh, ONE word.

[Bug]

 

So here's a little device needing to be invented... rather than having a trusted person at home call rescue services, you get a special cell phone with a timer that calls out at some time when you should be back, leave it somewhere close to a tower near your excursion area. It calls 911 with your prerecorded voice that says, "Help, we're in trouble out here in X, and my cell phone is about to-" bam, clock is ticking on people in trouble in the backcountry, thereby doubling or tripling the rescue efforts.

Mind if I steal this idea and market it?

[jmace]

rather than having a trusted person at home call rescue services, you get a special cell phone with a timer that calls out at some time

 

Dude the idea sucks as soon as you try and tell me that technology is smarter than a trusted human being

 

besides I can set up text messages on delay already

 

as far as the media goes its a business, more than likely the resources involved and the timing of the crystal episode just didnt mix with easier dramatic news already available..

[Off_White]

News, like any product, must be sold. I'm sure they put a lot of thought into deciding what's going to sell, and missing snowboarders just don't make the cut. I think Sexy is right though, if the missing boarders had a cell phone to make a desperate plea for help, they'd be a better product to market.

[ivan]

everyone knows snowboarders are godless, degenerate, drug-smoking hippies who deserve whatever wrath gods spit out at them

 

everybody loves a story about innocents getting screwed though, and we climbers are sure...uh...hmmm.

 

perhaps if they had been accompanied by a large, wooden badger?

[jclements]

Mind if I steal this idea and market it?

 

Well, my patent agent is billing me crazy on the Mountain Rescue Maximization Unit (MRMU), to be available for the spring REI catalog, but have your people call mine and they can talk licensing.

[sobo]

...In the movie, dude (played by Mark Wahlberg) opens his cell phone, looks at his best buddy from high school buried alongside him in the debris, insert shot of several bars on cell phone screen, and then his buddy nods, and Marky Mark clicks the cell phone shut.

 

WTF movie was that? Was it schmaltzy? Or just plain crap?

[Bug]

Mind if I steal this idea and market it?

 

Well, my patent agent is billing me crazy on the Mountain Rescue Maximization Unit (MRMU), to be available for the spring REI catalog, but have your people call mine and they can talk licensing.

Never mind.

My people just applied for the patent.

Oh, and my lobbiests are heading for Salem now.

 

[billcoe]

one word answers please

 

Money

[letsroll]

Recent large snow fall + idiots that don't know what they are doing = rescue.

 

Sorry for the families but if these guys had any clue then they would have not headed out.

 

Media non-coverage cause snowboarding is not considered risky even if it is in the backcountry anymore.

[Choada_Boy]

NEWS FLASH! I JUST ATE A SANDWICH!

[TREETOAD]

 

So here's a little device needing to be invented... rather than having a trusted person at home call rescue services, you get a special cell phone with a timer that calls out at some time when you should be back, leave it somewhere close to a tower near your excursion area. It calls 911 with your prerecorded voice that says, "Help, we're in trouble out here in X, and my cell phone is about to-" bam, clock is ticking on people in trouble in the backcountry, thereby doubling or tripling the rescue efforts.

Mind if I steal this idea and market it?

 

Already been done. www.findmespot.com

 

Now, the question is...how long till this kind of doomahickee is going to be required if you want to step out into the boonies

 

 

 

[Bug]

Slick. Now make it smaller and insert it behind my ear.

[sobo]

Already been done. www.findmespot.com

Sheeeeeeeeeeeeee-it!

 

Now, the question is...how long till this kind of doomahickee is going to be required if you want to step out into the boonies

Double sheeeeeeeeeeeeee-it!!!1

[sobo]

Slick. Now make it smaller and insert it behind my ear.

 

Or pin it on your chest.

 

*tap* "Picard to Bug! WTF is my Earl Grey?"

[Bug]

Ninties interpretation of the 24th century.

There is no need for military in deep space.

If there were, we would be dead by now.

[sobo]

Interesting postulate. But maybe the aliens haven't seen our warp signature yet.

Once they do, I can see your position. We need to be assimilated. Or be extincted.

[Bug]

For all we know, they may have probed you last night.

[sobo]

Is *that* why my butt hurts today?

[Bug]

 

I don't want to know.

[eric8]

Hood also has a history of accidents and media coverage...