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Originally Posted by Rob
Without this thread getting dragged too  whilst the RNLI is voluntary, they will have been co-ordinated by the government (and thus taxpayer funded) coastguard, and perhaps other agencies were involved too?
It is at the moment everyone's right to set sail if they wish to, and perhaps that is one of the few true freedoms we are left as a society to experience. |
Maybe but I contend that if other people's lives are put at risk it's a freedom I'm prepared to see given up.
I live by one of the busiest stretches of coast between two major ports and the lifeguards and the air sea rescue are overburdened at times by people who have no idea what they are doing.
Add to that the idiot pedestrians who get themselves cut off by tides,fall off cliffs and I am coming round to the idea that those who indulge in really stupid, unthinking behaviour should have to pay the financial costs of their rescue.
If a sign says stay out of the water or away from the cliff and someone ignores the warning then they should pay especially if others have to risk their lives to make them safe.
