Skyline Express: Man left dangling upside down, pantsless after Vail lift mishap
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 Thursday morning. The Jan. 1 mishap apparently occurred after the male skier, 48, 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. TheВ Skyline Express lift was stopped shortly after the pair’s botched 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. In a statement released this afternoon, Vail Resorts, which operates the ski area, reported that the skier was not injured after being “suspended for approximately seven minutes.” The press release did not explain how the mishap occurred, only that “the man was caught on the chair.” — from The Smoking Gun
News Flash: Six-year-old misses bus, takes family car, crashes, survives
Editor’s Note: At the time he went for a drive, the Moon was square Jupiter in Aries. The kid got lucky. For a second, I thought it was void of course, but Jupiter is out there in the last degree of Capricorn. Here is the chart, if you like studying these things. The asteroid, though I have not checked, would be Daedalus, which covers transportation.
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