Posted on 01/27/2024 10:35:25 AM PST by thecodont
This article originally appeared on KCRA.com.
SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. — When Monica Laso planned a skiing trip with her friends to Heavenly Ski Resort, she never imagined she would spend 15 hours overnight hanging in the sky on a gondola.
The hours felt long as Laso said she was fighting the cold by rubbing her hands and feet.
Thursday was her first time at the Lake Tahoe area resort. She spent most of the day snowboarding. Towards the end of the day, she fell behind her friends since they are more experienced than her.
Laso said since it was getting late, she approached a worker who guided her to the gondola after she expressed that she was too tired to continue down the hill. She got into the gondola at around 4:58 p.m., and then two minutes later, it stopped, leaving her alone and stranded.
KCRA 3 interviewed Laso in Spanish. The following quotes were translated.
"I didn't have a phone, a light or anything," said Laso.
Without a phone to call for help, Laso said she screamed every time she saw a worker down below, but they couldn’t hear her.
"I screamed desperately until I lost my voice," Laso said.
Laso's friends said they reported her missing to the El Dorado County Sheriff's Office when they could not get ahold of her.
It wasn’t until the gondola started working again Friday and went back down the mountain that crews realized she had been there overnight.
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Not half as good as that chick on Murder She Wrote looks.... sigh.
I thought there was something open enough for her to be screaming for help as she says and figured it might be big enough to throw a ski pole out of. Now I see she’s a snowboarder and wasn’t following the Boy Scout Motto :-O
A romantic rendezvous for one ?
She needs better friends…
No Mr George, no one here.
Time to go to my second job, see you tomorrow
Boarder
No pole
“Frozen?”
Yeah, I think that’s it.
In the good old days the ski patrol would send a person up the lift to make sure there was no one on the lift when it was shut down. The ski patrol person would ride the lift up and down.
I guess this is the new WOKE way of running a ski lift.
If you add the implied verb, you would say: "she fell behind her friends since they are more experienced than she was.
Deleting this implied verb, the sentence would end properly "they are more experienced than she."
I'm not saying this to be Freep grammar cop, I'm saying it to point out the effect of ESG and DIE on once great newspapers. Don't believe a word they write.
But are you sure the rider was identifying as female at the moment? I'm not saying this to be Wokeism grammar cop, but using the wrong pronoun may cost you your job faster than leaving a person on a lift overnight.
/Sar
Great point! It’s irrelevant that the lift operators left zir on the lift overnight to nearly freeze to death, as long as they spoke the proper pronouns when doing it.
A cycle or two of the ski lift would kept this from happening
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