EO 'Tut Tut' brigade - do something useful. RFDS

The EO forum is very good at pointing out other people's faults, inexperience and foolish behaviour Typically it's repeating and commenting on recently reported events in the media, things like driving through floods, getting bogged at a beach, lack of preparation etc.

At a guess, going by the posts and comments, the average EO poster seems 50 plus and totally risk adverse. So, other than Tut Tuting, I wonder why this is such a popular forum to point out what people should have done in a situation when events hit the media. The emergency services seem to do a pretty good job communicating what not to do in the general media, where younger and less experienced travellers will get the message. Here, it's just like a race to get the news in and comment negatively on the people's actions. It's no where near as common or critical on other forums.

Maybe it's just me ( again) but haven't we had enough of doing nothing other than just making negative comments about what people should have done, when we are thousands of miles away with zero knowledge of how events really panned out?

I propose a RFDS tax of $20 for every poster who starts a thread about floods, remote rescues etc, rollovers and a $10 for every subsequent post or follow up. EO could make it a click button to assist this.

That way the complaining could actually do so good for people caught in these remote situations. BTW I thought I should put my money where my mouth is. Above my normal donations,eI just donated $30 for this post. Reciept no 81712x