Originally Posted by
B737C525
And when it goes wrong, what about the people who will take risks trying to rescue him? Swimming down into the water to get him out? The SAR helicopter and its crew, perhaps the lifeboat and its crew? The emergency services whose time will be expended? The hospital bed he'll occupy if he's lucky, and the person who can't be in that bed because he's occupying it? The police officers who'll deliver the news if he's not lucky? The investigators who'll have to try to write up this idiocy without upsetting his relatives? The Procurator Fiscal and Sherriff and others in the coronial process (perhaps)? The cost to society generated by all the above and the premature death of a financially successful person? The effect on his family and loved ones of his premature departure?
Flyingmac, you couldn't be more wrong. You simply couldn't.
Blimey
You could apply much of the above argument to reasons for not going hillwalking, mountain biking, motorcycling, practically anything other than sitting in your house pntificating on PPRuNe.