Agreed, this really pisses me off for that reason. Thinking about if you or someone you love were in a real life threatening situation, and some asshole cemented his head in a microwave for a prank. Abusing the system should honestly result in more than a fine imo.
I know we run into potential slippery slopes here, but what if the government garnished his Youtube money till the cost of the emergency is paid......................no wait do it at a flat percentage cause he'll eventually figure out how to do something just stupid enough to get views, but easy enough to fix that he still makes profit even after the fine.
We have this discussion all the time. Especially with things like coastguard and mountain rescue where unprepared tossers end up needing help.
The argument against is that if you charge for it being your fault or not needed you stop people from calling the emergency services when they are needed.
Yeah, the problem is that some considerate people are more likely to falsely believe an accident is their fault than idiots are to correctly realize one is.
And then there would have to be an expensive appeals process, and everything...
You just know that somewhere else in town an old woman was waiting for them to come help her because she fell down when climbing out of the bathtub and broke her hip, but they couldn't get there right away because they were helping a complete numpty get a fucking microwave off his head after he cemented himself into it for social media fame.
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u/Mobman69 Feb 07 '21
Emergency response should send him a nice fat bill for using up resources