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The chairlifts can be dangerous

Post by fivat » Thursday 8 January 2009, 12:06

From BBC news: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7816336.stm 8O :lol:

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Post by Transistor Rhythm » Thursday 8 January 2009, 13:08

That guy never has to work another day in his life.

Vail will be sued for millions.
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well?

Post by nils » Thursday 8 January 2009, 13:22

Nothing broken
Can you sue a resort for having shown your frozen balls to the whole planet?
I'm not sure...but we'll see

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Re: well?

Post by Transistor Rhythm » Thursday 8 January 2009, 14:02

nils wrote:Nothing broken
Can you sue a resort for having shown your frozen balls to the whole planet?
I'm not sure...but we'll see
They were supposed to put the chair down before they got on and they didn't, so he fell through.

This is Vail, a place so luxurious after you take a crap magic midgets pop out of nowhere and wipe and polish your ass for you.
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Post by pokkis » Thursday 8 January 2009, 14:14

The photographer from Vail got fired due shooting/publishing picture
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Post by oliv » Thursday 8 January 2009, 14:14

In some way Americans are pro-safety, and lot of chair lifts do not have safety bars... But in this particular case, it seems that the guy felt just after embarking, so a safety bar would have not been of any help.
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Re: The chairlifts can be dangerous

Post by AZ » Thursday 8 January 2009, 18:31

Strange picture!
If I were to "fall" from the chair for any reason, I doubt that my pants would come undone like that.

However, I could see that pants would fall down if the belt was undone, and the zipper was open.
So one begs to question: what was going on that chair lift? :o

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Post by starikashka » Thursday 8 January 2009, 22:12

Alessandro - british people call this "belt and braces" if i`m hear their speech properly :-)

Yep, chairlifts are dangerous. Im Moscow we have indoor slope snej.com - ther is a chair lift with moving transporter( not sure it`s right word. but you understand :-) ) At the end of this some rubber piece of s@it touches boards and skies of passengers. Once, when i was fixed by both bindings ths piece pull my board and i was trown ouyt from the chair. I fall down under chair, get aside like a solider under bullet rain to avoid other chair hit my head. This was my fault as well, but chairlift should be inherently safe :-) without any strange pieces
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