First of all, talk about a record nobody gives a crap about, 99.999% people can't name anybody not named Columbus who has ever sailed across an ocean let alone around the world. Secondly how much money do people have to give their 16 year old chick a sail-boat not to mention the amount of text messages and Facebook updates she must have been making on that Satellite phone.. What irks me though is that I hate the fact that somebody decides to do something like this with all the inherent risks and when something goes wrong it's everybody else who has to be responsible for saving them. There were 2 ships within 2 sailing days of her last location both of which were heading to her because of some kind of media driven pressure to save this poor brat. They located her today when an emergency plane was to fly from Australia to try to find her by canvassing 1000's of miles of ocean blue and have had two planes shuttle back and forth to make sure she's OK while rescue boats race to her location.
Who exactly is going to be paying all these bills?
I hope that her folks have a credit card with some good reward points because they shouldn't have to spend anymore time traveling by boat cause they'd be flying on AMEX points if i was the Australian government.
This is like those daredevils or mountain climbers who get caught in some avalanche which results in some insane amount of people have to do extraordinary and dangerous rescue missions and vast resources being called out to rescue somebody who should be left to die.
I'm not saying that you shouldn't help a fellow human but if they do something to get notoriety for the risk they shouldn't just get credit for the reward but should also have to pay the consequences, literally and figuratively.
And if you are going to try to become famous record try doing something you'll actually be remembered for like making a celebrity sex tape involving every team in the Big 10.
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