SKYDiver in the wire... Question....
I know this was a skydiver incident, but want to approach the "why" as it relates to B.A.S.E.. This is the QUOTE from DZ:
In reply to:
Johnson said King was "very calm and embarrassed, he knew the danger he was in."
Asked if Brattleboro was going to send King a bill for his rescue, a trend in many communities for feats of derring-do and carelessness, Johnson rejected it forcefully.
"Absolutely not," he said. "He's been through enough."
Devils Advocate here... So a skydiver is given a reprieve for a rescue bill, whereas some BASE jumpers are not. Ok, I realize that the jumper was possibly doing a legal jump, but what if he was jumping a canopy he was not pro rated for?
"If" he was jumping a canopy he wasn't rated for, how does charging a BASE jumper for a rescue for a non-legal jump differ. All things being equal, some would tend to think that the skyjumper should get charged a rescue bill.
So what is the determining factor in deciding who has to repay a rescue bill or not