False distress call leads to jail & costs.

[Gerritt]

http://mobile.reuters.com/article/idUSBREA3M02O20140423?irpc=932 Edited April 23, 2014 by Gerritt

[NAW]

Why would someone do that?

 

Weird.

 

And there's not to many 19yo pilots out there either? You would home that I guy with enough drive and intelligence to be a pilot at 19 wouldn't be the type to call in a false distress like that??

[OhioFisherman]

If you play you should have to pay, and why expect Canada to donate it's services for free?

 

"

His attorneys had argued that Kumar was liable only for the search's direct costs to the U.S. Coast Guard, estimated by a defense expert at $118,000, and no Canadian Armed Forces costs.

A panel for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit upheld the federal judge's rulings. One judge dissented in part, finding she would have ordered the district court to reduce the "inflated cost figure." "

 

I wonder what evidence the dissenting judge produced that the costs were inflated?

[HTHM]

What a jerk.