Police: Man punched skier on Beaver Creek (41-yr old man punches 14-yr old girl)

VAIL — Police have charged a man with child abuse for allegedly punching a 14-year-old girl in the face Friday on Beaver Creek Mountain, Eagle County Sheriff's Office Lt. Mike McWilliam said in a statement.

The Sheriff's Office gave Scott Filler, 41, of Decatur, Ga., a summons to appear in court for misdemeanor child abuse, McWilliam said.

The 14-year-old girl from Mexico had been skiing on a beginner run, which Beaver Creek officials have identified as Haymaker trail, with a ski school class when she swerved to avoid a skier who had fallen in front of her, the statement said. The girl bumped into a 4-year-old boy who had been skiing with his father on the same run, McWilliam said. The boy and girl fell, the statement said.

The father of the 4-year-old boy said he thought his son had been seriously hurt and that the girl had been skiing carelessly, McWilliam said. Police said the man jumped on top of the girl and hit her in the face with his fist, McWilliam said in the statement. The skiing instructor intervened and stopped the father from further assaulting the girl, the statement said. The father then realized his son was not injured and apologized for his inappropriate behavior, McWilliam said.

The girl went to a medical clinic, where she was treated for minor injuries, the release said.

Several calls to a Decatur, Ga., phone number listed in the White Pages for Filler were not answered. Police did not provide additional contact information for Filler because they had not yet released the full incident report.

District Attorney Mark Hurlbert said a conviction could result in up to two years in county jail.

In a statement, Beaver Creek Resort officials said Vail Resorts places the “highest value on the safety of its guests and its employees.”

“Guests should have every reason not to expect this type of behavior,” the statement said. “Vail Resorts has zero tolerance for aggressive behavior at any of our resorts. In this instance, the man's skiing privileges have been revoked indefinitely at all six of Vail Resorts' mountains. In addition, the man has been banned from all Vail Resorts properties indefinitely.”

I am an expert boarder and have been bumped or run over by so many nOOb boarder and skiers it ain’t funny. This when there isn’t a person around and they have all kinds of white fall down or run into a tree, as I would prefer.

Sometimes people just can’t help looking at another person and wherever your eyes are focused that is exactly where you are going.

Life’s tough but once you realize the why of it, you just blow it off, laugh and remind them how it happened.

That said, I’d like to kick this guy’s azz or at least have him kneel below a piste and I come over the top, see him and then plane out in the air, whomping him right in the chest with my board.

You don’t hit kids, Lamo-retard.

When my daugher was 5 years old she had already been skiing for 2 seasons and was easily able to handle a slope on her own. We were at a place called Ragged Mountain in NH. We started at the top and worked our way down to the bottom. I would ski a couple of hundred yards, stop, she would ski past me a couple of hundred yards, stop, etc.

We were near the bottom in an area that was 1 step above the bunny slope. She stopped and was waiting for me. I pulled up next to her. Then I heard this guy yelling and next thing I knew my daughter was gone. This guy looked like a monster next to her, built like a lineman and was totally out of control when he hit her. Fortunately he had the presence of mind to grab her in a bear hug as he hit her and held on to her as they went tumbling down the slope. She was wearing a helmet and didn’t get hurt. In fact she wasn’t even fazed by it, she just brushed herself off and went to gather up her equipment. The poor guy was apologizing over and over again while trying to keep from crying. He thought he killed her.

Accidents happen on ski slopes, especially when you are in a beginner’s area like we were. Heck, Liam Neeson’s wife died from a fall tha wasn’t even close to the one as bad as my daughter took. The jerk in this story sounds like he didn’t even take a second to see what happened he just went off on the poor girl who was probably as upset as his kid was.

People on the slopes are very aggressive even when they run into you.

I was coming down a Black Diamond at Snowbird a few years ago and saw a kid standing right in the middle of the lane. No problem, I rode the outside of the lane and out of nowhere this kid clocks me running me in between some trees.

He starts screaming and cussing at me and I get up, thanking my lucky stars I didn’t face plant into a tree and get up staring back at the irritated moron.

I drop my board so I can get back on the slope as I am in deep snow and walking back this chump slowly slides down on his back edge looking like he is going to fall.

He starts with the yelling again and I tell him I saw him from the top and rode down on the outside of lane to avoid him and what the h()** was his problem that he just had to go sideways across the entire lane, without a care in the and not looking to see if anyone was coming from above.

You should be looking everywhere to ensure your safety.

Anyway, I light into him calling him junked out nOOb boarder and telling him he’s lucky I didn’t hit a tree and he shouldn’t be on a black diamond especially since it’s pretty obvious he sucks.

Kid got mad and saying I could have hurt him and I just started laughing and popped by back leg into my stepins.

Then he starts talking about he’s gonna teach me a lesson and I tell him “Yeah? Gonna have to catch and I stepin my other foot.

About that time he kinda lunges for me and being on back edge just turn forward onto my front edge, he misses and starts sliding down the mountain on his belly and clawing and scrapping with his hands to stop.

I flatten my board and as I am passing this petrified snow sled laugh and say “See you at the bottom!”.

So later I’m at the bar I see the kid and he sees me. I’m with a friend and say “Uh oh” and he wants to know if that’s the kid and asks what I’m going to do.

“Well, I am going to finish my drink and then get another one”.

Kid actually walked up and apologized saying he was fairly new at boarding, he probably shouldn’t have been on a black diamond and being scared already from being on the black diamond he just went over the top when he ran into me.

I laughed and said “Drink?”

He actually replied “Sure, what can I get you?”

Now I bend over laughing and say “No! Ya dork! Let me buy you drink!”

He says “Seriously?”

I walk him over to the bar and bought him a drink.

He actually turned out to be a real nice guy and I showed him how to go down that same Black Diamond the next day.

He only knew how to go down on one edge and I showed him how to change to the other edge so it would be easier. He had it down after the 3rd or 4th run.

Lot’s of fun, a good kid and a real good outcome for everyone.

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