The cops showed up. That means that somebody - it doesn't matter who - gets arrested/cited.

FormlessOne: FTA: McKenzie told police he went into the woods Thursday night before it became dark and he could not find his way out. He removed his shirt, coat and boots after they became wet.

He trespassed, got lost, got wet, became hypothermic, and was found by firefighters. So, yes, he was cited for trespassing. I see no problem with any of this.

Stupidity should be punished. He should be grateful that his punishment was a citation for trespassing, not a slow death from hypothermia or a quick death from a spooked neighbor with a shotgun.

ding ding ding, we have a winner

Done in one.

The article doesn't make it clear what happened. Did he:

A) Get lost, go crazy, THEN trespass?
B) or trespass, then get lost and go crazy?

If it's B, then he definitely deserves the ticket. If it's A, then perhaps a little bit of mercy wouldn't be inappropriate.

FTFA: was rescued this morning in a massive search after someone heard his calls for help.

If he *hadn't* trespassed, would someone have been near enough to hear his cries for help?

FormlessOne: FTA: McKenzie told police he went into the woods Thursday night before it became dark and he could not find his way out. He removed his shirt, coat and boots after they became wet.

He trespassed, got lost, got wet, became hypothermic, and was found by firefighters. So, yes, he was cited for trespassing. I see no problem with any of this.

Stupidity should be punished. He should be grateful that his punishment was a citation for trespassing, not a slow death from hypothermia or a quick death from a spooked neighbor with a shotgun.

Yeah, he's probably just happy he's not dead.

/don't take off your clothes when you get cold, people
//also don't get wet when it's cold outside
///I'm full of survival tips

Is that before or after the cops played a round of 'Let's taze his butt'

Should have cited him for being from Kalamazoo.

Or, for that matter, even being in Michigan.

/total hellhole

puffy999: When people are cited for trespassing, usually there's indication that he was on someone's personal, private property. This article implies no such thing, though it may intentionally be "vague."

Most public parks I've seen have a "Closed after 8pm/sundown/whatever" sign posted at the entrances. If you're there after the posted time, you're trespassing.

StoPPeRmobile: cgraves67:You can't seriously expect cops to go after dangerous criminals instead.

There's no money in that. If you want to fill up the treasury, you need to shake down the honest folk.

Mock26: Wear wool next time, lost dude. Wool will still keep you warm even while wet.

Sheep. Is there anything that they cannot do?

Make wool that doesn't itch like hell? Get on it, sheep.

Pull up the satellite imagery on google maps (Martin Township, MI 116th ave and Boysen Rd). HTF do you get lost in that?

puffy999: Get Lost: //I just would like to know what drug he was using, that made him walk into the forest before dark and then remove warm clothes, cause they got wet

Drug? The latter is a textbook case of hypothermia.

Cotton, when wet, will pull heat away from your body faster than simply wearing nothing at all. Wool and most synthetic materials don't have that problem, which is why you should never ever ever wear cotton when doing anything outdoorsy.

/you're right about the hypothermia thing, though - though that applies regardless of whether the clothes are wet or dry

Kar98: Gets lost, a quarter farking mile into the "woods", albeit still in yelling distance?

Get that dude a compass for Christmas

LaraAmber: Now there is an ad you won't see from the Cotton Growers.

It's really comfy, though, so they've got that going for them.

/which is nice

JackieRabbit: it's not a good idea to go into a wood alone, especially if you aren't familiar with it. When the sun starts going down, it is very easy to become disoriented and lost, especially in hilly country. This is quite common.

Seriously.

I was walking on a trail at a lake near my house and i wasn't paying attention to the time. The sun went below the horizon and I hadn't a clue where i was. I knew that I was less than 1/4 mile from the park's parking lot, the lake, or somebody's back yard so I knew I wasn't going to die but 10 minutes of "I have no idea which way to go" was a little freaky.

It's amazing how woods and darkness will screw up your sense of direction

TheMega: cgraves67: FTFA: was rescued this morning in a massive search after someone heard his calls for help

Why did they need a massive search if he was close enough to hear? You just yell back: "Keep making noise, we're coming to help you!"

Because, as a rule, police are extremely stupid and it wouldn't occur to them to do that.

/Also, yelling could be rather difficult to do with 3 donuts rammed in your mouth

I'm sure if the dude was buried under a pile of donuts, they would have found him right away

destrip: Ticket books. They're like checkbooks, only they work in reverse.

I can't think of one instance where I've been ticketed for anything (parking or moving) that was for something that really impacted safety. Every ticket has been for petty bullshiat type stuff. Ju$t the poli¢e prote¢ting and $erving.

The cops wonder why they're no longer respected like other public servants. Fear is innate; respect is earned. The days of the "friendly" police officer are, sadly, long gone. Ticket-happy, taser-happy, deadly-force-happy bullies.

Today the police are nothing more than a social club for the school bully who still wants to feel powerful by intimidating those they view as weaker

Ha, you city folk. There are usually at least two reasons for citing someone for trespass in a situation like this.

The first is so that the cops have a reason to make the guy get into the ambulance. By the time someone is so hypothermic they've taken off all their clothes, they'll often be in a state where they'll think they're okay once they're found: "No, I don't need paramedics, I'll be fine if you just give me some coffee," or something like that. Rather than waste more time trying to argue with freezing crazy people, police will arrest them so they can legally force them into the ambulance.

The other reason is so, when the guy warms up and regains his senses, he appreciates the seriousness of wandering off into the woods alone in the late fall and getting lost so people have to mount a huge search to find him. As all the search&rescue people here on Fark know, we tend to frown on risking our lives for others' mindless stupidity.

Gyrfalcon: The other reason is so, when the guy warms up and regains his senses, he appreciates the seriousness of wandering off into the woods alone in the late fall and getting lost so people have to mount a huge search to find him.

Yes, because spending the night with half your clothes and having hypothermia wouldn't have taught him a thing. We might have read about him next week if it wasn't for that ticket.

Chinchillazilla: FormlessOne: FTA: McKenzie told police he went into the woods Thursday night before it became dark and he could not find his way out. He removed his shirt, coat and boots after they became wet.

He trespassed, got lost, got wet, became hypothermic, and was found by firefighters. So, yes, he was cited for trespassing. I see no problem with any of this.

Stupidity should be punished. He should be grateful that his punishment was a citation for trespassing, not a slow death from hypothermia or a quick death from a spooked neighbor with a shotgun.

Yeah, he's probably just happy he's not dead.

/don't take off your clothes when you get cold, people
//also don't get wet when it's cold outside
///I'm full of survival tips

Hypothermia makes you do less than rational stuff, like taking your clothes off.