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A reckless young man hellbent of taking a multitude of unnecessary risks has just checked in with The Advocate this morning while enjoying his North American Odyssey.
Peter Songgrid, of Betoota Heights, also said he thought travel insurance was unessecary.
“There’s no point in living if you can feel alive,” he said, pawning it off as something he just made up on the spot.
“Yeah look, I just wanted to keep the costs down. I’ve been here for three weeks and nothing bad has happened to me yet. It’s not like I’m skiing or anything. There’s no snow so I’ve been downhill mountain bike riding in Yosemite and shit,”
“I could honestly live here. The lifestyle is so good. We’re only a couple hours from some of the best beaches in California. We went cliff diving at Big Sur on Friday night. It’s really different to cliff diving in the day time.”
In the land where even a short hospital visit can cost as much as a small apartment in Betoota Lakes, every travel advisory board recommends taking travel insurance out – even when travelling domestically.
However, that compounds when travelling to late-stage capitalist third world nations such as America.
Speaking to The Advocate this morning, Wendy Collins of Collins & Jones Travel in the French Quarter, said that visiting the United States without travel insurance is ‘extremely reckless’ and ‘possibly catastrophic’ both financially and emotionally.
“We’ve all heard the horror stories,” she said.
“Of folk being in hospital in America receiving enormous, life-altering medical bills. If Mr Songgrid is reading this, it’s still not too late to take out some cover. Please, for the love of Christ, please take out some insurance,”
“Fuck, I’ll even do it for you. Email me your details. There’s no point in doing what you’re doing.”
At the time of print, Peter said he has no plans to take out travel insurance because, despite the risks, bad things only happen to other people.
More to come.
