Do you get these kind of tourists over on your side of the drink?

[FishyFolk]

The Norwegian Red Cross Rescue Services, a Norwegian Air Force SAR helicopter, and the civil defence force has been out today searching for a couple of German tourists. The SAME pair was rescued by the NRCRS yesterday, in the same area. But these numpties went straight back into the woods and promptly was reported lost again, whhen they did not report back to their group.

The pair did not carry map and compass, but where on a clearly marked trail!

You'd think that getting lost the first day, would clue them in enough for them to procure a map of the area and a compass. But nope. They heaed straight into the woods to get lost again.

Do you get these over there?

http://translate.google.com/translat...23xtor%3DRSS-3

[Silverback]

yes we do....like the 3 tourists trying to walk the Pennine Way which is a 275 mile moorland/mountain national trail in some really difficult terrain with an aa road atlas a tin of sardines and a blue plastic tarp between the 3 !

The pair trying to walk the Coast to Coast walk and got rescued twice

[Ichneumon]

I'm sure Sapper will be able to tell you many tales about such numpties. So yes, we have them here too - and not just on land but at sea too.

[Ichneumon]

You beat me to it by 2 minutes Wayne.

[Silverback]

I'm sure Sapper will be able to tell you many tales about such numpties. So yes, we have them here too - and not just on land but at sea too.

Thankfully the real 'numpties' are few and far between

[FishyFolk]

The sea, hah!
We got lots of fishing tourists, and ammong them many brits. But it's the Germans we hear hear about. Luckilly most of them wear float suits, which makes it a lot easier to find and recover their bodies, once they neglect listening to the weather forecast, and advice from local fishermen warning them against going out in an open 16 footer while there is a storm coming in...

The french tend to kill themselves in winter, when their guides from the french alps lead them into the local avalanche zones because they "are experienced and know how to read the terrain and the snow"...well, they are faaaaaar away from the alps...

[woodsman]

Plenty of idiots in this country, even school teachers who are supposed to have some sense of responsibility take children into the unknown without training or know how how of basic navigation. And worse still they go out just in their school uniform , in the winter. The local MR team gets called out to rescue them , and the MR team leader gives the school teachers a very stiff talking to. A year later, in a bad winter, the very same teachers, do exactly the same thing again !!!

[Silverback]

Plenty of idiots in this country

[sausage100uk]

a few years ago (pre children) me and the wife were in the highlands on top of a munro (I forget which one) when the weather went from a typical sunny august day to thick fog and drizzle in the space of an hour, you couldn't see more than 30ft in any direction, not good with 500 ft drops if you head off in the wrong direction. thankfully id been really anal about having compass, map and gps backup, otherwise we'd probably still be up there now :-) .....earlier in the week we'd seen a guy walking up a mountain in sandals carrying a stripy carrier bag with a packet of biscuits in it (I kid you not!)

[shepherd]

.....earlier in the week we'd seen a guy walking up a mountain in sandals carrying a stripy carrier bag with a packet of biscuits in it (I kid you not!)

hahahahahaha