When I lived in Colorado, there were invariably young cocky guys who ignored avalanche zone signs so they could go skiing or snowboarding on out-of-bounds slopes, and often they had to be rescued. I always thought they should have to pay for the cost of the rescue. These were POSTED off-limits areas and then a bunch of volunteers had to risk their own necks to go save them.



Except a lot of people don't carry insurance. You wouldn't believe the number of people who live on flood plains around here, where land is cheap, and then want us all to chip in and bail them out when it rains and they get flooded. Sorry, dudes. You knew it was going to rain--it does it every damned year here--and I have no interest in helping you rebuild on the EXACT SAME SPOT that just got washed out.