Skier Suffers Exposure
Man left dangling upside down, pantsless after Vail lift mishap
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. The January 2 mishap apparently occurred after the male skier and a child boarded a high-speed lift in Vail's Blue Sky Basin. 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. As seen in the photos on the following pages (which were snapped by fellow skiers), the Skyline Express lift was stopped shortly after the pair's botched 10:30 AM boarding resulted in the man dangling from the lift. 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.
Letting it allll hang out...
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Therapy for a few years there.
Seems to me that the skier was in dire straits and him swinging in the cold breeze in his all togethers there, one might call him.... the Sultan of Swing. Heehee
So here's the song from Dire Straits, in fact, a great version of it:
Sultans of Swing
Thanks Fred, for the set up. Next time I'll be the straight man.
Straight man? At those temperatures, that's more than he could say, I bet.
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ReplyDeleteOK, I bow to the master of words, Mister Fred Langa.
I am just a hackneyed amateur.
Great comment Mister Langa.
Here's a minute of laughs from some of the other humor greats:
Hope Roast
Skip to 5:20 and enjoy a minute of greatness from some other funny boys from back East.
And then here's 24 seconds which may well, be, as the caption says, The Greatest Movie Line Ever...
Bob, the killer, Hope