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Registered: 05-01-06
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This guy purports to be the expert at surviving in the wild anywhere, under any conditions. Ok, I have a challenge for him (one that I know he's too chicken (bawk, bawk, bawk, bawk, bawk, bawk) to accept). I challenge him to spend one week surviving in the Manas Tiger Reserve in India (I believe it's also referred to by another name that I can't legitimately spell, so I'll just spell it how I remember it sounding like; the Sunderbond). And he must do so without benefit of the armed guards that act as "rangers" for the preserve nor can he be armed with any firearms himself. Because, lets face it, if your in a plane that happens to crash there, you won't have any weapons, either. But in this case, my challange does allow him to have a knife, say, a Bowie knife (as a person could get away with having a knife in their checked baggage. So, he can have a knife. But that's it. And there can be no guards with him nor can the cameraman carry any weapons.
I know this challange is going to get flamed big time and people will be calling me all sorts of things. But I'd like to see these types of shows pulled off the air. Regardless of any disclaimer that might be in print or narrated during the show, telling people not to try this, all sorts of people are likely watching these types of shows and you can bet that some of them are just as stupid as the guys that take these ridiculous risks just to make money producing some stupid reality tb show (shows that I like to refer to as the "dumbing down of America."
Anyone, ESPECIALLY someone that is married and has a family, that takes these kind of risks just to make some money (or, for whatever reason), deserves EXACTLY what they get. And that includes that Australian crocodile guy that that went swimming with the stingray and got killed. Oh, I'm very sorry he died. I hate to see something like that happen. But my sympathy is NOT for him; it is for the wife and daughter he left behind. They are the ones I'm sorry for. Now, a wife has lost a husband and a child has lost a father. And it's a direct result of him doing incredibly crazy, incredibly stupid, and incredibly dangerous (not to mention unnecessary) things, all for the same of the entertainment and amusement of the viewing public.
So, yes, I challange the host of Man vs Wild to spend a week unarmed and unprotected in the heart of the Sunderbond. Maybe if we lose another one of these guys, maybe the network will finally realize that when a family loses a loved one, participating in one of these shows, that it's not good television and it's not good business. It's bad television and bad business (I don't know how they are able to sleep at night). And maybe, just maybe, they will pull these shows off the air before someone else gets killed (maybe the next death will be some viewer that tried to take what they saw on the show and do it themselves; now that really would be a tragedy, because at least with these guys on these shows, they know what they are getting into.....where the average member of the viewing public doesn't).
I know that what I've said is going to outrage a lot of people. I'm sorry about that. But after 9 and a half years of honorable active duty service in the U.S. military, I've seen enough innocent people hurt and I hate seeing any more of it. And I especially hate seeing stupidity leading to those tragedies taking place. And since I won't be back to the forum, I won't have to read peoples outrage at what I've said.
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