Naked Skier

JANUARY 6--Smoking gun website reported that a 48 year old male skier at Colorado's ritzy Vail resort was left dangling upside down and pantsless from a chairlift last Thursday morning. the incident happened on January first. This happened after the skier and a child got on the high-speed lift in Vail's Blue Sky Basin. the skiier fell through a gap supposedly because the fold-down seat was not in the lowered position. His right ski got stuck in the rising chairlift, and that kept him upside down because his boot didn't dislodge from its binding. The Skyline Express lift was stopped shortly after the incident. The man stuck for about 15 minutes before Vail personnel backed the lift up and got him out of the chair. Supposedly the skier was not injured. The press release did not explain how the mishap occurred, only that "the man was caught on the chair."

We'll see if this leads to litigation. I think its very likely that the man will find some way or reason to sue for this incident. What a shame it is how people cling to every chance they can get money for something. The incident was probably the skiiers fault to begin with. get more at http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/years/2009/0106091vail1.html