Paul "Mags" Magnanti
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The true harvest of my life is intangible...a little stardust caught,a portion of the rainbow I have clutched -Thoreau
As I said, the article was poorly written from a factual point of view. It raises a lot of hypothetical questions and possibilities, some of which are serious, and some of which are not. It might be in bad taste to comment on one possibility in the context of another possibility, but as long as you aren't judging this person specifically, I don't see the issue.
Humour is not the enemy here. Judging other people is.
Find one of my posts that was in bad taste and I will apologize.
Go **** yourselves.
Weasel, I don't neccessarily disagree with you, but my question is who and/or what do you think gives you the right to tell me or anyone else what to think? What to think about what is humorus or what is serious. Or for that matter about anything else?
So I do have a Mom, daughters and sister that I care about and respect. Yet I can and will disagree with you. I respect your right to say what you think, how about you respect everyone else's.
If you don't make waves, it means you ain't paddling
She was found alive and is being cared for. Chill. It's all OK. And it's a funny story without the sordid details.
Poor Woodsy. Always getting in trouble for innocuous threads.
As mentioned, Mt. Sanitas is a very popular local hiking area. Though it is only (at most) a 1/2 hr walk from downtown (and bumps against residential areas), it is in the foothills.
On a cold, nasty day with a person who may not be prepared for the weather, bad things can happen.
Bad things can happen to happen to experienced people as well as shown by the ranger incident.
Paul "Mags" Magnanti
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The true harvest of my life is intangible...a little stardust caught,a portion of the rainbow I have clutched -Thoreau
I have to apologize you for my posts the other day. Got you mixed up in my head with the Weasel somehow. Sorry about that.
Weasel, nothing personal, but don't get so damned personal.
Humour isn't the main problem with this thread. Judging people without all the facts is.
So don't be a hypocrit, like me.
Enviro, you're not making sense. On the one hand, you "respect [my] right to say what I think." And I think that the "humor" here about a disoriented young woman stumbling nude along a trail in freezing temps is sick. OK? Especially in the context of still-active threads about a young woman of the same age whose decapitated body was found in freezing temperatures along a trail. So if someone has the right to say that sort of thing is "humorous" - and I appreciate it a lot that Woodsy agrees this was a poor subforum - then I have the right to say that those who see humor in such a situation are sick. As I said, if you really think it's funny, well, they'd be no less funny in the "Meredith" threads. Go ahead.
So I respect your right to post here and say your say, even when I disagree. But it works both ways.
TW
"Thank God! there is always a Land of Beyond, For us who are true to the trail..." --- Robert Service
"Thank God! there is always a Land of Beyond, For us who are true to the trail..." --- Robert Service
Oh my goodness. Can we say cabin fever anyone? The thread starter has already apologized for his error in starting this in the humor forum.
In light of Mags letting us know that this is indeed a real story I am now moving this thread to the Colorado Trails Forum.
ETA... Can we all settle down now, please?
Since it is no longer in the humor forum, please delete my post, thanks.
I'm not really a hiker, I just play one on White Blaze.
I suspect there may be some personality and (sub)culture differences here.
I hope that all of us care deeply about women (and men) being safe on the trail (and in other settings). I hope we would each do what we can to be helpful to someone in this kind of situation.
For Weasel, any kind of joke about this situation is a sign of not caring or of being disrespectful of the woman. For some of us, there can be humorous aspects to what is a genuinely tragic situation.
So Weasel is telling us this offends him, because any joke involving this kind of tragic situation is offensive to him. Some of us regularly joke about even tragic situations we find ourselves in, so we're going to feel differently about this.
The fact is, people who care about the woman in this story may nevertheless have different feelings about whether certain jokes are funny. We can try to understand each other, but I doubt we'll change each other.
Jonathan
And my posts criticising it for being in 'humor' and flowing from that can be deleted as well.
TW
"Thank God! there is always a Land of Beyond, For us who are true to the trail..." --- Robert Service
Bootstrap, that's a thoughtful post, and I understand what you are saying. But there are a lot of people here who still feel very raw, and very threatened, and very deeply distressed about another young woman who may have been in a similar set of circumstances only a few weeks ago. There are times, and places, for humor about some things that are just inappropriate at other times. This is one such time.
TW
"Thank God! there is always a Land of Beyond, For us who are true to the trail..." --- Robert Service
Jon-
First, placing it in the 'humor' section (since apologized for and changed) is, yes, 'making fun' of her. So is "I don't get it. I do most of my naked hiking in the summer." And yes, so it " think the caller was quoted as saying she was "pretty hot"." As was the comment that "at least she wasn't wearing cotton." Other comments - most removed - about maybe she was a druggy or a hippie (which, to some, may be redundant) were just insensitive. As for 'not caring', people aren't required to care about everyone on the planet (it would be nice, but it's not required that I know of), but making light of this kind of situation is out of line.
TW
"Thank God! there is always a Land of Beyond, For us who are true to the trail..." --- Robert Service