Don't get into situations that you can't handle or that you can't handle without causing resource damage. That's poor judgment for sure. Thanks for picking up cans on the trail while digging ruts off the trail. Nice one.
You don't need to convince me that people should not drive off established trails. Like I said before it really pisses me off when people decide to blaze their own trail. Do I like the idea that I had to drive off the trail to help a friend in need? No. Would I do it again? Absolutely...because if people only did it when it was absolutely necessary then there wouldn't be a problem. But because other people are idiots I am automatically a jack ass for doing what I needed to do. I am confident that if we had left it there until we had another option there would have been nothing left worth taking home and it would have caused even more damage trying to get it out.
As I said before it was a complete accident that the rig was in there to begin with, it was not intentional, there was never a thought of hey I think I can do this...or hey watch this...it was a simple lack of not knowing what was there until it was too late.
Why don't you spend your sarcastic, single minded hippie mind set trying to fix the minds of people who think it's fun to tear up the trails. Instead of wasting it on me, I already feel the same way.