Gaaaaah! Burn it! With fire!
Additionally, I may need to buy a fisheye lens…
I think that wording is way better than the usual “kill it with fire” meme. I wouldn’t even propose a contest.
I’m also partial to
Homer Simpson: Is there anything you can prescribe, doctor?
Doctor Hibbert: Fire – and lots of it!
Marge Simpson: Oh, that’s your cure for everything.
I sold an ebay flute to a man on Reunion years ago (strange how the internet works) before the Chikungunya epidemic of 2005-2006. At the time I had never even heard of Reunion let alone have been able to find it on the map. The flute finally arrived in the hands of the buyer after being stolen in transit on the island and later recovered by the police. Reunion was in the international news recently, as the fishermen who rescued the young American sailer in the middle of the Indian Ocean in the dead of Winter were from there. I salute the men for their bravery and their successful rescue mission. The young American has just now made it home to the port where she departed on her round-the-world sailing attempt. If you ask me, she is very lucky to be alive.
Yes, and in my fish-eye view, Mommy and Daddy should foot the rescue effort.
I regret the loss of the boat, looked like a nice one for a composite, certainly worth more than most sixteen year olds. Pity really. 
The 40 foot boat was valued at $250,000. The 16 year old human was priceless, although I know that you are only joking.
Actually, my issue is more the tens, maybe hundreds of thousands of taxpayer dollars spent in publicly-funded search and rescue missions. Yes, that needed to be done. No, she didn’t need to be out there in the first place.
No matter now, though. There’ll be TV, book and movie deals for the happy little family.
Not so different from the kid in the flying saucer balloon, methinks.
wasn’t she actually in the boat?
She was in the boat before the rescue. But a 40 foot sailboat is too much for a fishing boat to tow thousands of miles in rough seas. The captain of the fishing boat actually fell into the ocean during the rescue and had to be rescued himself. I’m not sure whether the sailboat was scuttled or merely left to drift in the middle of the Indian Ocean. With 40 foot waves in the Winter seas, I doubt that it lasted long under those conditions.
That the chartered commercial jet that was sent from Australia to search for the ship in distress actually found the ship was somewhat of a miracle in itself. They had coordinates of where the ship was when it was last heard from, but they had a very limited search time to locate the ship because of fuel limitations due to how far the search area was from their starting point. If one of the searchers onboard the jet had not spotted the sailboat in their one hour search window, there would have been no rescue and no happy ending.
I was responding to this 
A friend of mine was on a commercial head boat that had been certified by the CG the day before the cruise. It sprung hull planking out in the middle of nowhere in 55 degree water. It went to the bottom in three minutes. The CG showed up in an hour but seas were so rough it took two more hours to get people aboard, they never thought to drop life rafts. Three people died. Many survivors had life changing injuries. The CG was not held accountable for the incident even though it came to light that the boat had been denied insurance due to poor hull condition and the CG should have denied certification based on the denial of insurance. Even rescuers make mistakes that turn out deadly for others, they usually don’t make into the news.