Channel 9 pays $200K to 'a total idiot'

[auriga]

Sorry but the same rules apply - if I get injured in a car crash I am not expected to pay for the firemen to cut me out - what is the difference for people getting lost in the bush?

But in this case, someone get to gain financially from their misadventure.

 

[Nigelinoz]

Sorry but the same rules apply - if I get injured in a car crash I am not expected to pay for the firemen to cut me out - what is the difference for people getting lost in the bush?

Firstly third party insurance and registration fees partly cover the cost of emergency services,secondly if you are taken to hospital by ambulance you will pay for that in most Australian states in one form or another and thirdly if you contribute to the accident by your own stupidity your insurance company will probably increase your premium the next year.(if you own the vehicle of course-if you are merely a passenger then obviously that doesn't apply)
If anyone is stupid enough to go in the bush unprepared why on earth should they not be asked to make some recompense for that stupidity and why should they profit from that stupidity.
IMHO it is simply not defensible-if you go bushwalking or take on some other activity and do not prepare yourself for that then you should be prepared to accept the consequences of that stupidity and contribute to the costs incurred to rescue you.
Perhaps I should also add that I am very hot on this topic because as a former SES volunteer of some 7 years service I have seen too many times the consequences of peoples stupidity,from pulling out bodies of people who have not been wearing seatbelts to recovering bodies from boating accidents where people haven't worn lifejackets I have seen a lot,and anyone who needlessly contributes to the workload of organisations like the SES really annoys me.

 

[JohnK]

Sorry but the same rules apply - if I get injured in a car crash I am not expected to pay for the firemen to cut me out - what is the difference for people getting lost in the bush?

I have no issue with emergency services used to rescue someone lost in the bush. I think the issue here is that the moron is now $200,000, tax free, richer for the inconvenience.

I have to work over 4 years to see that type of money and even longer if I take into consideration the airfares and accommodation I have to pay. Why don't I go and get myself "lost" and see if I can profit from selling the story....

 

[Dave Noble]

I have no issue with emergency services used to rescue someone lost in the bush. I think the issue here is that the moron is now $200,000, tax free, richer for the inconvenience.

I have to work over 4 years to see that type of money and even longer if I take into consideration the airfares and accommodation I have to pay. Why don't I go and get myself "lost" and see if I can profit from selling the story....

So your objection is purely envy that someone has been paid by a tv company

So he made some money out of it; that suggests that his IQ is well over 69 and his ability to negotiate with companies is fairly decent.

 

[straitman]

So he made some money out of it; that suggests that his IQ is well over 69 and his ability to negotiate with companies is fairly decent.

Dave Noble,

To quote you on several occasions in the past: Rubbish!

 

[Dave Noble]

Dave Noble,

To quote you on several occasions in the past: Rubbish!

Well, getting $200k for the story is pretty good going imo and well done to him and I doubt v much that his IQ is < 69

Dave

 

[Nigelinoz]

So he made some money out of it; that suggests that his IQ is well over 69 and his ability to negotiate with companies is fairly decent.

Going for a walk in the Blue Mountains while being totally unprepared for such an outing,getting lost for a week and causing probably terrible worry for your parents overseas does not strike me as the actions of a very intelligent person.
And how do we know it wasn't his father doing the negotiating?

 

[Flashback]

Going for a walk in the Blue Mountains while being totally unprepared for such an outing,getting lost for a week and causing probably terrible worry for your parents overseas does not strike me as the actions of a very intelligent person.
And how do we know it wasn't his father doing the negotiating?

Yeh. It was his father who was the one who said all the money would be donated, but then later said only some of it would be.

 

[Nigelinoz]

Interesting developments.
Jamie Neale and dad Richard Cass 'fall out over media money' | Travel News | News.com.au

HE WAS lost in the wilderness, cold and hungry for 12 days.

Now Jamie Neale has been abandoned by his father, who has rushed home to London to be the first to sell his son's amazing tale of survival to the British press.

Less than 24 hours after the 19-year-old was released from hospital still suffering the effects of hypothermia and exhaustion, The Daily Telegraph reports his father Richard Cass left his son behind in Sydney in a dash home to cash in on the backpacker's misadventure.

Cass, who told Australian media last week he was not interested in profiting from his son's rescue and survival story, is understood to have asked his son for a 50 per cent share of Neale's deal with Channel 9's 60 Minutes program.

Not content with his son's offer to cover his father's airfares and the cost of a drinks celebration with rescue workers at Hotel Gearin in Katoomba, Cass was also believed to be upset by his son's treatment of him during the Tara Brown interview. Neale hinted at the pair's estranged relationship when he told 60 Minutes he was "surprised" his father had flown to Sydney to join the rescue effort.

The admission is understood to have angered Cass, who had crafted a perfect parent image with the media.

Neale had refused his father's plea to split the $100,000 he was paid for his story, while honouring his pledge to donate proceeds from the deal to the emergency services who helped find him

I might have misjudged the lad after all.

 

[straitman]

Interesting developments.
Jamie Neale and dad Richard Cass 'fall out over media money' | Travel News | News.com.au


I might have misjudged the lad after all.

The son looks better, the father looks worse and Ch9 still looks stupid :!:

 

[drron]

The son looks better, the father looks worse and Ch9 still looks stupid :!:

Spot on.Once again a reminder that it is extremely rare that any journalist will report all the facts even if he/she is aware of them.How often have any of us rushed into comment on what turns out to be inaccurate reporting.Mea culpa.