We're In a Service Business...

I can’t find the link right now, but I picked this up on a news site over the weekend:

A young Israeli man who went missing in India on Wednesday was found alive by a rescue team near the city of Manali on Friday.

Sa'ar Revivo was found in a state of extreme dehydration by a team working for his insurance company near the northern Indian city, and was rushed to hospital to receive medical treatment.

Hello, insurance company? I asked my buds what they thought of that; the general consensus is that it’s a bit of a novelty, but there is some precedent. Insurance companies often provide something other than just money-for-loss: the auto liability policy buys you a courtroom defense, and professional liability buys you a lot of good mitigation-of-damage work. And anybody who remembers this one of my all-time favorite movies will recall how the bail bondsman earns his money.

Besides, I suppose somebody in Israel has to provide employment for all those retired Mossad types.

Kudos to Noel for showcasing the victim’s last name. Noel adds: two days? Most insurance companies, it takes two days just to verify the spelling.