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[–] ickplant@lemmy.world 48 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I’m going to tell a story on behalf of my husband.

He was 13 and in Boy Scouts. Their troop was told that some older scouts went missing and the troop had to look for them. They formed patrols and were searching for over 3 hours when the leaders said that the older scouts were located; one of them was disemboweled and needed a medical helicopter to come from Denver. That was the “oh, crap!” moment…

Turns out the whole thing was staged. No one ever went missing. They just wanted the troop to learn how to do search and rescue. There were younger scouts there who were crying and terrified, definitely scarred by the experience.

And that’s how things were done back in the 80s.

[–] Raiderkev@lemmy.world 15 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I think this is a common thing with boy scouts. We happened upon an accident in between stations at camp. A kid ran up and tells us his dad crashed his car and he needed help. There was a man who was laying in front of the truck on the ground. His arm was bleeding profusely. We needed to administer first aid. The guy had a bunch of blood all over his arm and he was acting all incoherent. We decided to Jerry rig a tourniquet to stop the bleeding and send someone up the road to find a phone (pre cell phone days) The whole experience was super traumatic. All staged. Fuckers. They even had a pump shooting out fake blood from the guys arm.

[–] TheOneAndOnly@lemmy.world 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Was the "injured" guy's name J. Walter Weatherman, by chance?

[–] Raiderkev@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

LMAO. I didn't remember that name but I had a feeling I knew who it was. This guy's arm stayed on though

[–] TheOneAndOnly@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

Well, there goes that theory...