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Skier Suffers Exposure- Man Left Dangling Pantless After Vail Lift Mishap
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Posted on 01/06/2009 7:05:32 AM PST by Red Boots
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To: windcliff
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posted on
01/06/2009 8:14:17 AM PST
by
stylecouncilor
(I'm a loner Dottie; a rebel.)
To: Tallguy
It's not clear but something broke and he fell through and hung up by his skiboot. Someway his pants must have gotten caught as he fell through. I saw a guy(on video) get charged by a bull. As he was flipped over the bulls head the back of his pants caught on a horn and stripped him right out of them. Same with a baseball player (also on video) when he was flipped over a fence. All of these incidents were caught on film so we get to laugh at these poor unfortunates over and over and hope it never happens to us.
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posted on
01/06/2009 8:17:10 AM PST
by
Ditter
To: Travis T. OJustice
You have to be a real loser to screw up that bad on a simple ski lift. I see 5 year old kids do it right thousands of times a year. In his defense, it's a high speed lift, so you're quite a ways out pretty quickly, if anything does happen And,the article does says it was chair malfunction.
To: Red Boots
Is that like a wardrobe malfunction? The only times I’ve ever seen anything like this was when the passenger screwed up. There is very little that can go wrong with the chairlift that would cause such an event.
44
posted on
01/06/2009 8:22:23 AM PST
by
Travis T. OJustice
(Change is not a destination, just as hope is not a strategy.)
To: dfwgator
There butt for the grace of God, go I. There, fixed it (at least in reference to this poor "chap"...)
45
posted on
01/06/2009 8:22:49 AM PST
by
mikrofon
(Cold cheeks)
To: Travis T. OJustice
“It appears that the chairlift's fold-down seat was somehow not in the lowered position, which caused the man to partially fall through the resulting gap.”
It sounds like the lift ops failed to fully put the seat down when starting the lift for the day. I think the seats are put up at night to keep snow from accumulating.
To: Ditter
All of these incidents were caught on film so we get to laugh at these poor unfortunates over and over and hope it never happens to us. If I remember correctly, the baseball player won $110,000 on America's Funniest Home Videos with that video. He had to OK it to be used, so I guess he was OK with it.
These photos make the guys case pretty convincingly, don't they ? Vail Resorts will probably compensate him handsomely.
This just might be one of those when life gives you lemons, make lemonade type situations. I mean, if it's on Drudge, it's everywhere.
To: Travis T. OJustice
From the article:
It appears that the chairlift's fold-down seat was somehow not in the lowered position, which caused the man to partially fall through the resulting gap. His right ski got jammed in the ascending chairlift, and that kept him upended since his boot never dislodged from its binding
To: Red Boots
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posted on
01/06/2009 8:38:41 AM PST
by
Doomonyou
(Let them eat lead.)
To: Red Boots
Got to be one of the funniest things I have seen in a long time. The guys (and possibly a gal) coming to his rescue don’t seem to be in too big of a hurry to free Mr. Johnson.
To: Red Boots
"My absolute favorite is Crested Butte: beautiful scenery, charming town, reasonable prices, great skiing for all ability levels, never crowded."We found Bridger Bowl in Montana very much like that.
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posted on
01/06/2009 8:41:07 AM PST
by
JustaDumbBlonde
(America: Home of the Free Because of the Brave)
To: Savage Beast
My favorite ski places in the U.S. are Aspen and Sun Valley. Sun Valley is the best! I love Sun Valley. But I also love Ajax. I have never skied either place. Aspen, though fairly close by, is too expensive for our family, and there are so many great places in Colorado that we never go anywhere else, except Park City. That is a great family place to ski !
To: GUNGAGALUNGA; Malsua
I bet the blood was really rushing to his head.
To: Red Boots
Name ought to change from Vail to Crested Butt.
poor guy, at least he got his 15 minutes of fame
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posted on
01/06/2009 8:50:22 AM PST
by
dforest
(Is there any good idea out there that Obama doesn't lay claim to anymore?)
To: TruthWillWin
Looks like he dropped his poles. Bummer.
55
posted on
01/06/2009 8:51:22 AM PST
by
JustaDumbBlonde
(America: Home of the Free Because of the Brave)
To: Red Boots
my monitor is so bad, all i couldn’t see anything.
i’m probably better off.
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posted on
01/06/2009 8:59:08 AM PST
by
machogirl
(taglines are like shoes: if you're a gal, you can never have too many)
To: machogirl
my monitor is so bad, all i couldnt see anything. im probably better off.Probably.
To: LittleSpotBlog
Too bad it wasn’t some famous hollywood ahole.
To: Malsua
"...I saw a guy fall off a lift at a pole about 25 or so feet up. He made it. heh. ... I saw a kid start to fall off a lift just after leaving the pickup point. The mom had a grip on the kid's jacket, was screaming, and the (probably stoned on pot)operators rushed out with a big net to catch the tike, who was about 25 feet up. I never knew why they didn't simply reverse the motor and bring the kid back. Anyway, the mom was screaming to help her kid, but when they got the net out and said "Drop her!" she started screaming "NO!". Long story short, mom's grip grew tired after a few more seconds (she was using the other arm to wrap around the bar) and the kid fell. Everything turned out alright. Someone yelled "Buy that man a doobie!", and we laughed.
To: Red Boots
Yikes!
Well, he will never forget that ski trip.
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posted on
01/06/2009 9:55:58 AM PST
by
alarm rider
("Father, let me dedicate all this year to thee". Lawrence Tuttiett (1825-1897))
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