Coroner: Teen died of exposure [Idaho]

[Green Lantern]

A hard lesson that sometimes there is MORE to being prepared than just having a gun. It isn't hard, or expensive. All it takes is a little THOUGHT.

..the lack of any kind of preparation is pretty hard to believe

No it isn't, at least in MY opinion. I live in the mountains. Going to work for most everyone around here takes at LEAST a good half hour to hour's commute, some of them through totally uninhabited areas.

I'm the ONLY one I know of to keep more nourishment in the car than a half-empty Mountain Dew bottle! .... Except my cousin, who's commute is almost TOTALLY through the boonies proper - I bought her one of those MOLLE-bag 3-day kits from Cheaper Than Dirt and supplmented it a bit as a gift for her.

 

[Run&Shoot]

One way or another those men murdered that young woman. Either they were incredibly stupid and reckless to first put her in such peril, and secondly to abandon her. I don't care how muddled your thinking becomes, but to abandon a woman in the wilderness?!

I agree with the "fishy" comments. Sounds more like two men having their way with a young woman, getting carried away, and deciding it would be beter if she didn;t survive the 'ordeal."

To make this more clearly gun related, I think her chances of survival would have been better if she had a S&W 642 or Glock 26 handy.

Maybe she could have resisted and turned back. Or worst case, she could have shot the cowards intha back when they abandon her. Then she could use them like the proverbial sled dogs in a blizzard on an ice floe (warmth, food, etc.). I am only half jesting.

I hope tis gets thoroughly investigated. Reckless endangerment or negligent homicide a least (no I am not a lawyer or LEO so tell me what would be correct, I'm guessing here); or premeditated, viscious kidnapping and murder at worst.

 

[Aguila Blanca]

I wish my wife would read a few stories like this one, and the one about the softwear engineer. She and I are a study in contrasts.

We both drive Jeeps. In the back of mine you'll find spare coolant, spare motor oil, a small-ish basic tool set, a commando sweater, a winter-weight jacket, a packet of four mylar survival blankets, a flashlight, a lot of rope and straps and stuff, a roll of duct tape, a Mag-Lite, an emergency strobe light, and a first aid kit.

In the back of hers you'll find the factory spare tire, the factory jack, and the factory lug wrench. She doesn't want any of the other stuff because it doesn't look "organized." She took over my newer Jeep when we got married. I had the same "kit" in that one. She removed it all within a week. Go figure.

 

[Green Lantern]

Aguila - ooooooooo, that would KILL me!

I think my "natural enemy" is ANY neat-freak.

I can understand the mindset of most of my family much better, that they find it too "stressful" and "depressing" to think about. Which is maddening in it's own way, I suppose....

 

[travellingJeff]

As frequently as I wish for "stupid" to be painful, it's very sad when it becomes fatal.

I always carry my Eagle AIII MOLLE pack with me, everywhere I go. I live in the woods of northern Minnesota and I'm always doing outdoor activities. I mean it literally when I say that the nearest town is 45 miles away. I just can't see something like this happening to me. Another product of the "nanny state", if I do say so myself. We've gotten out of the conditioning that let our forefathers know that bad things could happen when noone is around and that it's up to us to be responsible for it.

Now, in my JEEP, geez.... someone said that if they got stuck bad enough, they'd just build a log house. Thats about how I am. Chainsaw, winch on the front, come-along, gravel, E-tool, canvas tent, a wood stove that fits inside the tent, 5 or 10 gallons of water, at LEAST one box of MRE's, a box of tuna-in-a-pouch and a box of "just add boiling water" pasta stuff. It's just amazing how, sadly and tragically, unprepared some people are.