John Fenna and JohnathanD.
I didn't mention you find this type of person in every type of hobby or interest, as this is a bushcraft thread, but John you are right......they are everywhere lol. Luckily, and this is just my opinion again, I would say that the buchcraft ones get very little press (maybe some posters feel bear Grylls is part of the problem), and are not in the same league (or as damaging) as thugs calling themselves football fans or any of the extremists who 'tag along' to nearly every protest these days. These small and unrepresentative groups can cause a lot of problems, and make society as a whole very 'anti' to whatever they attach themselves to.
While catching up on this thread, two things sprang into my mind. The first and urgent one was that I needed to eat some chocolate (after reading about two of my all time favourite biscuits lol), the second was an incident I attended some years back: A man had been drinking and had a car crash. He was thrown out of his car and was lying on his back on a grass verge (but breathing well and an 'A' on the AVPU scale, despite being drunk). I suspected he may have a back injury due to the way he was laid (and the fact he had been thrown quite a distance too), so after initial checks, I went back to my car to rig up a neck brace as a starter, until the ambulance arrived. By this time there was a little gaggle of onlookers stood around him to, just looking. Because of this, I didn't notice the woman who turned up and shouted loudly to the onlookers 'stand back I know what I'm doing' and walked straight up to the bloke and rolled him on his side, without even saying hello. What I did hear was the creaky cracky noise of the blokes bones as she rolled him though (by pulling his shirt). I asked her why she had rolled him, and she said it is what needed to happen...To which I responded that I had suspected he had a back injury. She responded back with 'he will be fine now, as he wouldn't be able to breath on his back!'. Once the ambulance had arrived (the bloke did have a back injury) I talked with this woman, and asked her who had trained her to just roll someone over (we're not talking recovery position here lol), and she said that she had just heard on TV that you had to do it, or the casualty will swallow their tongue.
I'm afraid that at the end of the conversation she thought the advice she had heard on TV was far superior to the fact that (at the time) I was an army trained medic and ambulance driver lol.
Just like the bush crafters I mention previously, I guess the other people who saw her actions could have become 'anti' first aiders.
Time for more choccy now!