If these folks were just affecting themselves I couldn't care less. But as (formerly) one of those folks who are called out on their weekends/holidays/childrens' birthdays/family gatherings/anniversaries to attend to the "victims" of these stunts, and other stupid and preventable incidents not quite as dramatic, I'm a little upset at them for doing what they do. I'd bet you half the people here in the States who try this sort of thing don't have insurance and when they sustain injuries like they do, they go to the hospital for treatment, which then finds out they don't have coverage, so they treat them anyway and just pass on the cost of the treatment to me and my coverage via increased fees. Secondly, they're doing this of their own free will - it wasn't a legitimate accident (weather, bad equipment, etc) you couldn't have helped, it was planned and didn't work out quite the way they wanted. Someone had to be ready to go - or actually go - into the water to get her away from those beasties. Therefore, their life was needlessly at risk as well. I'm not saying let these folks die - but I am definitely saying let's recover the cost of their rescue and care, and open them up to lawsuits on the part of the rescue people who had to lose time and, possibly, THEIR lives in trying to save hers - for something that was entirely preventable!
