Reply #83: I have to compare this kid to... [View All]

...the "asses in SUV's" a poster above mentioned.

Here in California, every year the Park Rangers have to waste a lot of valuable time and money rescuing idiots. They're not ALL driving SUV's. Some of them do stuff like wander out into blinding snowstorms wearing nothing but their Toby Keith T-shirts, and get lost. Because they thought "it looked so neat out there."

But according to an old LA TIMES article, the Rangers do indeed spend most of their time pulling SUV's out of gullies, snowbanks, (former) dry washes that flash-flood, etc. etc.

The Park Rangers say they hear variations of the same two excuses over and over:

1. "I thought my SUV was 4-wheel-drive! But you say it's only 2-wheel-drive? Damn!"

2. "I don't understand. This kind of SUV can get out of anything in the TV commercials."

Now I'm not making this up. According to the article, the Park Rangers have evolved a special radio code for these situations:

"TNS"

That stands for: "Thwarting natural selection."