Not that I want to disagree with Julie's plea not to overly publicize
Airman's Cave, but I do want to point out some of the nonsense that is
a continual pet peeve of mine whenever public-agency involvement in
cave rescues is discussed.
1) It is not the cavers' fault that the agencies overreact. The
situation could have been resolved just as well (better, actually, by
avoiding publicity) by one city employee making one phone call to one
caver.
2) The allocation of costs is usually completely phony. It is
extremely unlikely that the search for missing cavers in Airman's cost
the public $20,000. How much gasoline did it take to power all those
flashing red lights? They must be adding in the salaries of all the
city emergency personnel who would have been being paid whether there
was anything for them to do or not.
The city goes way out of its way to cause itself problems or at least
pretend to ("your tax dollars at work."). That's no basis for deciding
public policy.
-- Bill Mixon
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