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Skier Suffers Exposure- Man Left Dangling Pantless After Vail Lift Mishap
The Smoking Gun, DrudgeReport ^ | 1-6-09 | Staff

Posted on 01/06/2009 7:05:32 AM PST by Red Boots

JANUARY 6--In a bizarre incident that will surely lead to litigation (or an out-of-court settlement), a skier at Colorado's ritzy Vail resort was left dangling upside down and pantsless from a chairlift last Friday morning.

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TOPICS: Humor; Local News; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: akennedy; cold; colorado; ski; southernexposure; vail
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Now that's cold !
1 posted on 01/06/2009 7:05:32 AM PST by Red Boots
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To: Red Boots
It's SHRINKAGE!!!
2 posted on 01/06/2009 7:07:34 AM PST by gridlock (QUESTION AUTHORITY)
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To: Red Boots

Oh, no, that poor man! We all have embarrassing moments, but that one takes the cake.


3 posted on 01/06/2009 7:09:16 AM PST by Tired of Taxes (Dad, I will always think of you.)
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To: Red Boots
Don't you just hate it when that happens?
4 posted on 01/06/2009 7:10:00 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors are the opium of the people.)
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To: Red Boots

That’s one of those times when you’re hanging there and the thought goes through your mind “Just how exactly did all the things i’ve done in my life, lead me to having my johnson waving in the air, hanging from a chair lift in freezing temperatures”.

He doesn’t look to be that far up...I’ve have attempted to just get dropped. I saw a guy fall off a lift at a pole about 25 or so feet up. He made it. heh.


5 posted on 01/06/2009 7:10:08 AM PST by Malsua
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To: Red Boots

Just goes to show that it IS important to put the seat down.


6 posted on 01/06/2009 7:11:10 AM PST by Paladin2 (No, pundits strongly believe that the proper solution is more dilution.)
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To: Red Boots

How awful! I have been on that lift, I can’t figure how it riped his pants and underwear off.


7 posted on 01/06/2009 7:12:20 AM PST by Ditter
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To: Tired of Taxes

I agree... it was terrible. I suspect, though, that he will have a large monetary settlement from the resort to console him for the humiliation.


8 posted on 01/06/2009 7:12:27 AM PST by GraceCoolidge
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To: Red Boots

Ted "Where are my pants" Kennedy has not offered a statement yet.

9 posted on 01/06/2009 7:12:38 AM PST by weegee (Obamunism, just another word for the policies of a NeoCom.)
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To: Tired of Taxes

That night at the ski lodge, John was greeted by drunken guests mooning him and shouting bottoms up dude.


10 posted on 01/06/2009 7:15:49 AM PST by dblshot
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To: Ditter

—yep—and it looks like he and partner must have low upper body strength to not pull him upward, release ski, etc.,—


11 posted on 01/06/2009 7:17:34 AM PST by rellimpank (--don't believe anything the MSM tells you about firearms or explosives--NRA Benefactor)
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To: Red Boots

Full moon over the mountains!


12 posted on 01/06/2009 7:17:39 AM PST by silverleaf (Fasten your seat belts- it's going to be a BUMPY ride.)
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To: silverleaf

“There it was in living color, a rectal eclipse!” - Roseanne Roseannadanna


13 posted on 01/06/2009 7:20:05 AM PST by posterchild (Endowed by my Creator with certain inalienable rights.)
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To: leda

No, it wasn’t me. Worse thing I ever did on a ski slope is drive a tank down it, backwards, and out of control.


14 posted on 01/06/2009 7:20:42 AM PST by patton (+)
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To: Malsua

“Just how exactly did all the things i’ve done in my life, lead me to having my johnson waving in the air,

That should be written on Barney Frank’s tombstone...among other things.


15 posted on 01/06/2009 7:21:03 AM PST by Batman11
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To: Tired of Taxes

Hope not too much Icing??


16 posted on 01/06/2009 7:21:38 AM PST by ImJustAnotherOkie
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To: ImJustAnotherOkie

I’ve been on that lift, too...the seats don’t fold down. And besides, if you don’t notice a hole in the seat and then can’t manage to get your ski tips up, you have bigger problems than losing your pants!

Poor guy.


17 posted on 01/06/2009 7:23:36 AM PST by LittleSpotBlog
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To: Red Boots
From the article...The exposed skier was stuck for about 15 minutes before Vail personnel ( backed the lift up and successfully dislodged the unidentified man from the four-seat chair

Before they could stop laughing long enough to dislodge him from the chair, I bet is how it really happened.

He is not identifiable from the photos, or I wouldn't have posted it. He's going to be rich, though embarrassed.

18 posted on 01/06/2009 7:28:44 AM PST by Red Boots
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To: Ditter

I can’t figure out how the guy even got caught in that manner? With his pants undone?

The pictures show that the safety bar is ‘UP’. That isn’t where his boot/ski became ensnared.

The written description doesn’t help much.


19 posted on 01/06/2009 7:29:35 AM PST by Tallguy ("The sh- t's chess, it ain't checkers!" -- Alonzo (Denzel Washington) in "Training Day")
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To: Malsua
having my johnson waving in the air

In the frigid icy cold weather a johnson will NOT be waving. LOL!! Ever heard of Mangina.

20 posted on 01/06/2009 7:32:31 AM PST by GUNGAGALUNGA
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