Your thinking is bollox.

Ever sprained your ankle? I have to a fairly sever degree (swelling, bruising and tearing but no surgery required). I can assure you that, while painful as all hell to do it, yes, you can in fact walk on it. This happened to be both my ankles at the same time as the result of a fall. I was able to walk with crutches. As for what this kid had, I can't tell you how many times that happened to me in sports, where I continued playing the game and walked on it without the help of any crutches. It hurt, but it was beyond doable. None of these times ever involved a situation where, if I didn't move, I might not survive.

I'm just waiting for the punchline where this was planned by the Illuminati or something.

"Your thinking is bollox. Being young and fit will protect you from getting the injury in the first place.

But once you had got the injury you would have got the injury. And it would effect you the same as an unfit person.

But with that in the bold you are nearly getting there."

Are you on drugs?

Being young and fit will keep you from spraining your ankle? Yeah. Right. Tell that to all those young olympic class athletes that occasionally have sprains.

Friend, you've got a bad case of the stoopids and being young and fit won't save you from that either.

We're done. I am not in the business of trying to save imbred Limey imbeciles from themselves and that is especially true for those Limeys who are self taught morons such as yourself. If you wish to continue to make an ass of yourself, you may do so but it's too painful for me to assist you.

Bye.

...time to put a kabosh n tis thread mate. fair dinkum, WTF does a sparianed ankle have to do with Walter cronkite carking it? You people are mad!!! No wonder the MSM can bamboozle most people so easily with this kind of attention deficit disorder.

by the way what ahs happened to the story about Cheney facing a congressional inquiry? i thought GG wud be all over that. Hmm odd priorities. But then carry on numnuts, more on sprained ankles please!

of a young man going "up river" towards the epi centre of New Hampshires very own Heart of Darkness. Unlike the incomprehensible piffle of the ondelette who would have us believe a boy sprained an ankle but insisted on continuing his journey right past an observatory where he sought no assistance the story is of course different. Ondelette:

He didn't turn back when he sprained his ankle. He didn't beg a ride down from the Observatory people when he got to the top. He didn't turn back when it started getting late crossing the ridge.

And now the account from the young Capt. Willard wannabe who only ever went up because he couldn't get down.

Mason, of Halifax, Mass., headed up the popular mountain for a long day hike on Saturday, but decided to take a shortcut down after spraining his ankle. That’s when he ran into rising water and deep snow until searchers spotted him Tuesday morning, headed toward the mountaintop weather observatory.

“I was going to hike to the observatory and kind of knock on their door and try to get some hot cocoa and a ride down,” he said in a telephone interview.

And so we see that our young Willard from Jackass County, Mass. never did in fact reach the Observatory there to, "kind of like sort of knock on this real neat door like thing they've got there."

And so having never reached there he was never after all to be told by a moon faced Kurtz that he was just an errand boy sent by grocery clerks to collect the bill.

As with so many sorry tales of life this one is the more sorry yet more credible in the telling than some of the others that have been offered.

No as it happens even though the two mingle threads are different they are all about the news and how to read it. Some people sticking to thread discuss who or who not to trust in the media. Meanwhile the rescue fanciers are getting their knickers in a twist by not seeking out a credible version of a story that might make sense before flying into comment about it. But they all level the charge of being stupid at the boy as the press want them to when all along the boy wasn't stupid only in experienced. Which as a kid is a natural state. What's stupid is not being able to notice glaring contradictions in the reports of it that they read.

It is of course stupid to believe that a lad with concerns about a sprained ankle would want and actually did carry on a planned hike.

Of course he didn't. He tried to come down but finding his way blocked by a raging torrent of spring melt Salon poster bullshit in which he could have lost his life had he fallen into it he was forced into climbing higher where the air was more clearer and sane with it.

But continuing a hike which he had wished to abandon anyway after receiving the injury was not in spite of ondelette's and qiumxx statements part of his itinerary.

What this shows is that even here where one would hope to find some discernment about what they read in the newspapers you find people quite capable of believing utter bollox.

It was also clear that some of the original newspaper reports on which the posters based their comments had been written up by half asleep cub reporters who knew even less about ankles and mountains than did about their chosen profession of journalism and so also hadn't noticed the glaring oddities of their own reports.

And the subs despising the cubs as much as they do reports of rescues merely checked the word count before giving the nod to publication.

And it is in such a fashion that what is in effect "securitised junk data" flies around the world at the speed of bullshit in the small way as it does in the large.