hilariously awful, but still scary, post cover. awesome photo. i love gothamist!

I'll admit to being repulsed by the Post headline (nothing new there) but the feeling was more than offset by the charm of the lovely lady holding it. Erica, resident of Brooklyn: adorable!

"The Kims looked over an official Oregon Department of Transportation road map and decided to drive 62 miles south to what appeared to be a more direct route to the southern Oregon coast."

They missed the turnoff on the highway so they decided to go further down and take another route. That seems pretty legitimate to me and could happen to anyone.

People who are so high and mighty about this situation are jerks.

I would find a headline that read: "Surrender, Monkeys."

werd, #22 and #17. "the maps they were using didn't say the roads were impassible in winter," is one of the dumbest things i've ever heard, aside from "this guy's a hero." sometimes ya gotta look around, like "oh, we're in the middle of nowhere, it's snowy, and i'm endangering the lives of my kids and wife...should i A: continue or B: act smart?" stupid, stupid, stupid, stupid, stupid. stupid. look at self-righteous jack, defender of the stupid! werd, joppoo and pinkerton.

The Kim story is very sad but James Kim is not a hero and should not be regarded as such. He didn't do anything amazing; if anything he helped accelerate his own demise. And he left behind a widow and two orphans because he didn't think his situation through with a clear head.

While hindsight is 20/20, their road trip was poorly planned and when nature takes over (storms, snow, ice, downed trees, impassable roads), you have to be as ready as you can be-- they were not.

The only positive element to this story--besides the fact that the mom and 2 young children lived & were rescued-- was that people will now think twice about downloading directions off the Internet that they blindly follow, going on road trips without telling people where they are going and their expected date/time of arival, having working cell phones and Blackberrys, keeping up-to-date maps and keeping a first aid/emergency kit in their cars.

I apologise for the nerd references but sometimes the Internets gets me sooooo mad when it comes to geeks and nerds. Why don't they just admitt they're nerds. When did Geek become a positive term?

it's sad to think that people are calling the Kim dude a hero. It's like he fought off the lion but it was his fault for leading them to the lion's den in the first place.

They did have maps and cell phones - on the map they were using it didn't said the roads were impassible in winter, and obviously they didn't have cell phone service in a remote mountain area.

Wow, some of you people are real assholes. In striving to be politically correct just for your pet minorities (in this case black people) you show your bias pretty clearly. If you are so guilty of being white just fucking kill yourself already.

The comments about the poor man who died trying to find rescue for his wife are just cruel and show your cynicism even more. Fucking jackasses.

"So now everybody that's against this stupid war is a monkey huh? Well then I guess I'm a monkey then !"

Well, the Rag known as the NY Post is a Murdoch publication.

So now everybody that's against this stupid war is a monkey huh? Well then I guess I'm a monkey then !

Honestly cannot stop digging on that little chiquita in the picture!

It doesn't make sense how a editor of CNET was lost. He didn't bring any maps with him or even had a cell phone in his pocket? Maybe there isn't any cell phone coverage up in the mountains.

"The key to finding the family’s car, police said, was a “ping” from one of the family’s cell phones that helped narrow down their location."

So they did have cell phones..why not use it?

There are a LOT of remote areas, especially in the West, that are beyond the reach of cell phone coverage. Some people that go camping in those areas rent satellite phones just so they aren't completely out of touch.

It doesn't make sense how a editor of CNET was lost. He didn't bring any maps with him or even had a cell phone in his pocket? Maybe there isn't any cell phone coverage up in the mountains.

"The key to finding the family’s car, police said, was a “ping” from one of the family’s cell phones that helped narrow down their location."

So they did have cell phones..why not use it?

So much for the Asian nerd with all his electronic toys image.

Like that possessive husband in the Joy Luck Club.

but then it's all Boys and their toys. Whoever has the most toys, wins.

friggin nerds.

I don't understand how a editor of CNET with all those gadgets could get stuck in a blizzard. First of all he must have more than 2 cell phones and a blackberry, laptop and a GPS navigation system with him cause if he doesn't then I'd have to ask WHY is he an editor of CNET? HEll, I don't even have a important job and I got 2 cell phones and a blackberry at the least. and why is he so stupid as to have gone on a remote road with no cars on the road? He might have been courageous to seek help for his family but to get to that point he was pretty stupid.

I'm trying to find a chink in Pinot's reasoning, but I can't. That shit is true. hahahah. I just realized I wrote Chink but the other kind. I wasn't being racist but used the cracked armor terminology in a post about misconstrued racism.

I wish gothamist, curbed, et. al had a rating system for comments.. pinot wins for best comment I've read all day

The NY post is ACTUALLY Technically racist. For example, If they showed two black men's faces in the monkey pictures there would be a public outcry. But since they can only show White people's faces in Monkey pictures, that connotates racism as they have discriminated against Black people in the sense that they can't be treated equally as white people. Only when people of all races can be superimposed on monkeys without fanfare can martin luther king jr's dream be finally accomplished.