Sue the volunteers 
2003 Reader Submission
Pending Acceptance
One of the most poular places for base jumping (jumping off a cliff with a parachute) is Norway, and one of the most popular places to do so is the Kjerag mountain. There are unfortunately some base jumpers who fail to deploy their chute in a correct way, thus either falls to their death og finds themselves stranded on a shelf.
There are, however, a large group of volunteers launch grand rescue operations with both helicopters and climbers to rescue the ones that are not only so stupid as to jump off a mountain side, but are also so stupid that they fail to use their equipment properly.
Terrence Forrestal was one of those jumpers. After his chute failed to open correctly, he stranded on a shelf halfway up the mountain. Being a smart guy, he had brougt his cellular phone, and called in the volunteers (the red cross). The weather was however too bad for a rescue by helicopter, it was tried several times. The climbers were therefore set in, frst they had to get all their equipment up onto the mountain, then they could climb down to the helpless fool.
Forrestal decided, after the helicopter left, that he had to take the matter in his own hands. He therefore, in poor weather conditions, with low visibility, jumped off the shelf, hoping to rescue himself using his reserve parachute.
This second jump went even worse than the first, Terrence plunged to his death at the bottom of the mountain side. All the rescue team found when they reached the shelf a short time after was a few pieces of equipment. They then had to climb all the way up again, bring their equipment down from the mountain, for so to climb up and bring down the corpse.
The real goodie, however, doesn't come until two years after. Terrence's sister then sue the resposible at the volunteer rescue team for not doing enough to rescue her brother.
http://www.dagbladet.no/nyheter/2002/07/30/344640.html
(a norwegian newspaper, will probably not make a lot of sense to you guys..) Submitted on 10/05/2002
Submitted by:
Tor Arne Brekne
Reference:
Norwegian newspapers July 2002
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