L’escursionista inglese salvato affronta una fattura di € 14.000 dopo aver ignorato le chiusure dei sentieri nelle dolomiti italiani
https://www.independent.ie/world-news/europe/rescued-english-hiker-faces-14000-bill-after-ignoring-trail-closures-in-italian-dolomites/a1879482222.html
di PoppedCork
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This should be the case across Europe
Great. Make it a round 20k.
Sounds reasonable. You broke the rules and caused the expense, so you pay for it.
Excellent but should apply to Europeans also. Stupidity should have a cost.
>He was eventually brought to safety with no injuries but is now being asked to pay €14,000 to the regional health service for the helicopter rescue because he is British.
>The rescue bill for an Italian or French climber might be a few hundred euro.
>“If someone calls because they are tired or stuck because they find themselves in a place where they shouldn’t be, or if they are unharmed with no health issue, they have to pay,” a national rescue service spokesman said. “If you are from outside the EU without insurance, you have to pay more.”
That´s pretty cheap👍
A researcher had to be rescued in the deepest cave in Germany in 2014. It cost 1.000.000 Euro to rescue him. He had to pay a significant amount (exact amount undisclosed).
Meh, sounds reasonable. Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
If insured, should be fine. Oh, it’s a fine, not a rescue fee. Lols.
Stoopid costs, yeah. Also for imperialists.
Rescue is for emergency. It’s the right thing to pay for stupidity
I appreciate when people are fined who treat our alps as some kind of all inclusive entertainment park.
I don’t really trust the article. I call BS on the „he’d have to pay less if GB was still in the EU“.
Many health insurers inside the EU wouldn’t cover the helicopter costs either, since no one was injured and this was rather a recovery than a rescue. Wether you have additional insurance which cover this kind of costs isn’t really depending on where you’re from.
To be honest that sounds pretty reasonable. For mountain sports I use insurance with €25k coverage for rescue, so if the hiker had a similar policy, they should be fine.