On the issue of hiker rescue....

A chain of thought was recently inspired by comparing the hiking incidents to car chases. Here's the idea:

When someone gets stuck on a mountain there are a team of volunteers (paid about $1.00/yr) who climb the mountain to save the poor bastards. Apparently the rescuers are really only about a hairs breadth away from being the stuck, or so I've been told.

I would like to see this idea attached to car chases: The government would pay trained volunteers $1.00 per year to subdue people who have started car chases. I see a quasi Mad Max vision of freeways where if you run afoul of the law, the law just pulls in these specialists to take you down. Anyone want to sign up? I think you should get a good deal on impound cars and a coupon good for four free parking tickets.