Yeah, saw that. This isn't new, nor is it limited to PLBs, but it's not hard to imagine the problem will become widespread in a time when emergency service budgets are slashed everywhere.

I'm liking the concept of rescue insurance policies more all the time. There's no way I'd support some kind of tribunal that would decide who had to pay for rescue and who did not. That rather defeats the point of having the capacity at all. That said, if the state or county or whomever wanted to go after a blatant abuser in civil court, that's fine with me. There's precedent with fire services.

I question the article's implication that the technology is emboldening folks. Many of these emergency calls were once referred to as "suspected human remains found, possibly hunter missing two years."

Cheers,