02-22-2013, 04:34 PM
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Join Date: Jun 2008
Location: Utah
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Teen falls 45 feet from ski lift caught on film
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02-22-2013, 08:59 PM
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Join Date: Apr 2007
Location: Outside of St. Paul, MN
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Jeebus, did he survive?
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02-22-2013, 09:40 PM
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Gator Country Gold
Join Date: Apr 2007
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Quote:
Originally Posted by ufrulz2
Jeebus, did he survive?
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I noticed him moving afterwards, so....who knows.
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02-22-2013, 10:39 PM
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Location: Maine
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Not sure I want to watch that...
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02-22-2013, 10:44 PM
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Join Date: Aug 2007
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Having been on many ski lifts, I'm always surprised that this doesn't happen more often. Always scary when i see little kids on lifts with no bars. Think I heard that the guy was busted up, but survived.
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02-22-2013, 10:53 PM
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He did survive. Lung injury, skull fracture, but he survived.
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02-22-2013, 11:48 PM
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Join Date: Apr 2007
Location: Portland, OR
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Dumbass tried throwing a snowball at the chair filming him...
I've been on the slopes since I could walk, literally. If you fall off a lift you're doing something wrong. There's no one else to blame.
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02-23-2013, 04:03 AM
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Gator Country Gold
Join Date: Apr 2007
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That looks like a little more than 15 feet to me.
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02-23-2013, 04:04 AM
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Gator Country Gold
Join Date: Apr 2007
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oops sorry just reread the title 45 feet looks about right
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02-23-2013, 04:46 AM
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Join Date: Apr 2007
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For us non skiiers, the exit from the lift onto the top of the slope can be incredibly difficult...and that chair keeps on coming right up your backside.
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02-23-2013, 11:54 AM
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Join Date: Apr 2007
Location: Central Florida
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I agree there is no excuse for falling out of the chair on a lift. I've often thought to myself how bad it would suck if you were to fall from one the few times I've been skiing.
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02-23-2013, 05:17 PM
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Join Date: Mar 2010
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Reminds me of the movie 'Frozen'.
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02-23-2013, 05:23 PM
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Join Date: Apr 2007
Location: West Hills, Ca
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...he's very lucky he fell on an incline. May have broken both legs and his back if it was flat! It's weird, at Mammoth where I ski regularly the scariest chair has no safety bars. Chair 23 goes right over jagged lava rock. On windy days I always loop my arm over the back.
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02-23-2013, 05:56 PM
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Heisman Finalist
Join Date: Apr 2007
Location: Portland, OR
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Quote:
Originally Posted by malscott
...he's very lucky he fell on an incline. May have broken both legs and his back if it was flat! It's weird, at Mammoth where I ski regularly the scariest chair has no safety bars. Chair 23 goes right over jagged lava rock. On windy days I always loop my arm over the back.
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The scariest chair I've been on was at Angel Fire in NM. It crossed a wide flat open area and went up the side if the mountain. There was a 175 drop down to the ground and when the left stopped there was 20-30 feet of up and down travel with only a center bar to hold on to. Thankfully they've since removed the lift.
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It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right....
Law never made men a whit more just; and, by means of their respect for it,
even the well-disposed are daily made agents of injustice.
--Henry David Thoreau
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02-23-2013, 06:01 PM
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Heisman Winner
Join Date: Apr 2007
Location: Metro Atlanta Ga Gwinnet County
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Originally Posted by ufrulz2
He did survive. Lung injury, skull fracture, but he survived.
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Also a lacerated liver.
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