Coasties rescue rescuers
In Humboldt County, California, the Coast Guard was called in to help locate a 14-year-old girl who was mis-oriented in her backyard. They found her rather quickly from a helicopter (she was bright enough to signal the aircraft with the screen of her cell phone) and guided searchers to her location.
The helicopter returned to it’s station, but the rescuers got mis-oriented returning the girl home, so the chopper was again dispatched and this time lifted the whole party out;
The Coast Guard helicopter crew returned to the scene, located the two stranded searchers and the girl, hoisted all three aboard the helicopter and transferred them to Saint Joseph Hospital in Eureka.
All were treated at the hospital and released.
Not enough people who understand the old map reading and compass skills. Helicopters and GPS are fine until they aren’t.
Category: Coast Guard
Old map? Was that like an app from before google maps? I looked it up and couldn’t find anything. I guess it isn’t used anymore?
I can’t help but wonder whether Joe Teti was on the rescue team.
“I don’t often drink piss but, when I do, I like to drink my own.
“I do it for a psychological edge…”
Whizzorade – the drink of choice for Joe Teti!
Silly coasties. You’d think someone would have had a compass to be able to shoot an azimuth for a straight-line walk to civilization.
To be fair, per the article, it wasn’t “silly coasties” that needed rescuing, it was the search posse on the ground that walked into the forest looking for the girl.
Must have been one bitch of a back yard. I don’t think we’re supposed to refer to them as “coasties” any more.
It’s Humboldt. That explains everything.
Thats a sarcastic remark, I lived in Humboldt County for 10 years and was a police officer and Sheriff’s deputy there…..if you have ever been there, you know there is land and areas where man has not set foot, so don’t be so damned quick to put a cute remark in here!!!
His remark wasn’t just cute. It was succinct.
In this era of cellphones, gps, etc I always tell everyone to carry a compass and believe in it as well as look at a freaking map and get an idea of where you are, what is around you and some landmarks. The compass won’t run out of batteries, break, stop working if you drop it in a mudpuddle or be out of range of a tower. For the girl to be out of sorts and not up on things like this is ok, she can be taught. For the rescuers to not have a compass and know how to use it is unforgivable. If I ran that outfit immediate and comprehensive map reading and orienteering would be in order.
It is good that the girl had the presence of mind to use her phone as a signaling device and didn’t lose her head. There are flashlight apps that you can download and are very useful.
In RVN a lit cooking pkg used for heating C rats placed in an upside down helmet was used more than once to guide a chopper in to pick up a casualty when the sky was totally black. Wonder why the girl didn’t think of that? Wait a minute, hers was not a story about POSES, what was I thinking?
But of course I was contemplating my offering for the absolute sickest T A H poser-exposed joke of the year 2017. WARNING…Spew Alert!!!!!!
A group of candy ass loser POSERS were sitting around a camp fire bitching about being exposed on This Ain’t Hell. One of them says, “Man, last night I ran into this girl down by the railroad tracks. We had the VERY BEST sex I’d EVER had in my entire life! One of the other POS POSERS asks, “Man, did you get a blow job?” The first POSER says, “Nah, never could find her head.”
Happy Thanksgiving y’all.
POSERS, not POSES!
What the fuck!?
Ba dup dup ba baaaa….I’m lovin it
I have a GPS I use in the Ambulance but I double check it with the squads map book if it is someplace I have not been to before
To many younger co-workers don’t check and have ended up on the wrong side of the county responding to a 911 call.
Doesn’t help when the people naming roads use road names that are similar: Sugg Road, Charles Sugg Road; Arlington Blvd., Arlington Circle; mind, the last two are in town and one is major and the other minor.
Just like doing math; you gotta ask if this answer makes sense.
“Is that you, the lost girl? We’re here to rescue you. My name is Stevie, Stevie Wonder. My partner here is Ray Charles. Ready to go?”
Stevie, is that really you? Last time I heard of you was that trip to the hospital when someone explained you had been trying to read a cheese grader all morning, and ended up with bloody fingers.
PC=BS
How did Helen Keller burn her hands?
How did Helen Keller’s parents punish her?
Don’t know how she burned her hand, but her parents punished her by re-arranging the furniture; everyone knows that!
Bother! Never mind.
She tried to read the holes on the iron?
Time is up….
Trying to read the waffle iron.
They rearranged the furniture.
Why did Helen Keller not scream when she burned her arm on the stove? She was wearing oven mittens.
Humor always makes for a great Thanksgiving.
File this under “Thanksgiving Day Humor”
What does a redneck girl say the first time she has sex? “Get off me, Daddy! You’re crushing my Marlboros.”
How did Helen Keller burn her ear? She answered the iron instead of the phone.
How did she burn her other ear? They called back…
Why did Heken Keller’s dog commit suicide?
You would too if your name was “AIIIIUUUUGGGHHHHHH!*
My final Thanksgiving Day joke for 2016.
What’s the difference between American girls and Iranian girls?
American girls get stoned BEFORE sex.
Now, that right there is funny!
Father Jonn forgive me. Just HAD to slip this last one in.
A sadist, a masochist, a murderer, a necrophile, a zoophile and a pyromaniac are all sitting on a bench in a mental institution.
“Let’s have sex with a cat?” asked the zoophile.
“Let’s have sex with the cat and then torture it,” says the sadist.
“Let’s have sex with the cat, torture it and then kill it,” shouted the murderer.
“Let’s have sex with the cat, torture it, kill it and then have sex with it again,” said the necrophile.
“Let’s have sex with the cat, torture it, kill it, have sex with it again and then burn it,” said the pyromaniac.
There was silence, and then the masochist said: “Meow.”
Sorry I accidentally hit “report this” on a joke someone posted.
USA Topo maps app for Android.
DL local info and move out.
Use it cross country skiing in the wilds.
Tracfone SD card does not like -10F.