Axel Foley did it first!

The HERO tag is for the dad, right?

FNG: Winning: Don't they put seat belts on those rides?

There are the safety bars but people rarely use them. When I was younger I never did. Now that I'm old and not invincible, I clamp those suckers down as soon as I'm on.

I guess there wasn't enough time or presence of mind to tell the kid to knock off his skis before he got caught by the bystanders. But it worked, so that's awesome.

But there are no bars on the ones in the picture!

Safety bars should be mandatory in all states.

Do not question Dad Strength.

White people problems

And to think kids jumped off lifts to be cool. YARD SALE!

Oh farking jeebus on a popscicle stick....

Kid would have been fine...

It could always be worse.

Relatively Obscure: The incident happened on the same day that a young woman died after falling for a chair lift while skiing in Park City, Utah.

Let that be a lesson ladies. Don't love inanimate objects--not even powered ones.




LOL I forgot my kid. Toss him up here.

... good one.

I liked the Eagle vs Goat clip I saw in the Lion thread earlier.

Gonad the Ballbarian: Oh farking jeebus on a popscicle stick....

Kid would have been fine...

Yeah, I agree. Into snow, kid would have sustained minor injuries. I jumped off a bridge when I was 14. Fell 20 feet and hit a rock that was underwater. I got the wind knocked out of me and broke my ankle.

Didn't anyone think to use the stretchy orange plastic fence in the foreground as a net?

Is it possible to take off skis without using your hands? Cos I would have been terrified of catching someone wearing skis-it would be far more dangerous than for the person being caught. It was an amazing catch-I wonder if they were planning all along to catch him by his skis like that.

Snowflake almost met his...

swingerofbirches: Is it possible to take off skis without using your hands

depends on the skis. some you can hit a heel catch and they fall off, but it takes some coordination to do so.

humanshrapnel: Didn't anyone think to use the stretchy orange plastic fence in the foreground as a net?


you're a genius, they could have doubled it up a few times to be sure. That kid and his dad would've felt bad if one of those skis went down someones throat and out their butt.

Not trying to be a he-man ITG (well, maybe a little), but that kid doesn't look that heavy. Couldn't he have lifted him back on?

Mock26: FNG: Winning: Don't they put seat belts on those rides?

There are the safety bars but people rarely use them. When I was younger I never did. Now that I'm old and not invincible, I clamp those suckers down as soon as I'm on.

I guess there wasn't enough time or presence of mind to tell the kid to knock off his skis before he got caught by the bystanders. But it worked, so that's awesome.

But there are no bars on the ones in the picture!

Safety bars should be mandatory in all states.

They say that kinda thing about seat belts too, but hey, American's have a right to die in the stupidest and most pointless of ways possible I guess.

I saved my cat from sure death by reaching down and grabbing her after slipping from the 2nd floor railing. I'm not sure she truly appreciated my quick reflexes, since all I got in return was a scratched forearm

/csb

How did this article go from a story about a mildly dangerous situation involving a child skier who wasn't even skiing to a story about a pro skier who died while attempting a high speed downhill run?

I hate it when media types try to link completely unrelated events together in desperate attempt to find some sort of pattern involved. And I dont care if they were at the same location. One is completely unrelated to the other.

Mock26: FNG: Winning: Don't they put seat belts on those rides?

There are the safety bars but people rarely use them. When I was younger I never did. Now that I'm old and not invincible, I clamp those suckers down as soon as I'm on.

I guess there wasn't enough time or presence of mind to tell the kid to knock off his skis before he got caught by the bystanders. But it worked, so that's awesome.

But there are no bars on the ones in the picture!

Safety bars should be mandatory in all states.

If I can ski down a mountain drunk and high without dying, safety bars on a resort controlled, regularly inspected piece of machinery are unnecessary.

Relatively Obscure: The incident happened on the same day that a young woman died after falling for a chair lift while skiing in Park City, Utah.

Let that be a lesson ladies. Don't love inanimate objects--not even powered ones.




LOL I forgot my kid. Toss him up here.

Haha, now that's funny

Good job dad, glad the kid is okay (DNRTFA)

swingerofbirches: Is it possible to take off skis without using your hands? Cos I would have been terrified of catching someone wearing skis-it would be far more dangerous than for the person being caught. It was an amazing catch-I wonder if they were planning all along to catch him by his skis like that.

Yes, but you need leverage to do it (usually you use your pull to push down on the heel of the binding, but you can use your ski/boot). I seriously doubt he would have been able to do it while dangling like that. He would have to push down with one leg while pulling up with the other.

People still ski?

/It's all ball bearings now

Mock26: swingerofbirches: Is it possible to take off skis without using your hands? Cos I would have been terrified of catching someone wearing skis-it would be far more dangerous than for the person being caught. It was an amazing catch-I wonder if they were planning all along to catch him by his skis like that.

Yes, but you need leverage to do it (usually you use your pull to push down on the heel of the binding, but you can use your ski/boot). I seriously doubt he would have been able to do it while dangling like that. He would have to push down with one leg while pulling up with the other.

Yeah it's easy enough to do if you're standing and taking your skis off, but I would not want to try it dangling from my father's hand 30 feet above the ground

redmid17: Mock26: swingerofbirches: Is it possible to take off skis without using your hands? Cos I would have been terrified of catching someone wearing skis-it would be far more dangerous than for the person being caught. It was an amazing catch-I wonder if they were planning all along to catch him by his skis like that.

Yes, but you need leverage to do it (usually you use your pull to push down on the heel of the binding, but you can use your ski/boot). I seriously doubt he would have been able to do it while dangling like that. He would have to push down with one leg while pulling up with the other.

Yeah it's easy enough to do if you're standing and taking your skis off, but I would not want to try it dangling from my father's hand 30 feet above the ground

Yeah, if my kid was hanging from a chairlift 40 feet above the ground, the last thing I would be worried about is taking off his skis.

jingks: redmid17: Mock26: swingerofbirches: Is it possible to take off skis without using your hands? Cos I would have been terrified of catching someone wearing skis-it would be far more dangerous than for the person being caught. It was an amazing catch-I wonder if they were planning all along to catch him by his skis like that.

Yes, but you need leverage to do it (usually you use your pull to push down on the heel of the binding, but you can use your ski/boot). I seriously doubt he would have been able to do it while dangling like that. He would have to push down with one leg while pulling up with the other.

Yeah it's easy enough to do if you're standing and taking your skis off, but I would not want to try it dangling from my father's hand 30 feet above the ground

Yeah, if my kid was hanging from a chairlift 40 feet above the ground, the last thing I would be worried about is taking off his skis.

Well in all fairness my dad is 6" shorter and 50 lbs lighter than me, but the sentiment would stand if I were a kid haha

humanshrapnel: Didn't anyone think to use the stretchy orange plastic fence in the foreground as a net?

Or those bails of hay?

/Stupid people are stupid.

//The kid woulda been fine if the tard father just dropped him.

///Cheers!

If he wasn't such a Farker, he could've lifted him back up onto the chair easily.

drewsclues: What you call heroism, I call 1%er problems.

Hey now, for some of us skiing and poverty go hand in hand.

/The 1%ers subsidize us to be sure

Mock26: FNG: Winning: Don't they put seat belts on those rides?

There are the safety bars but people rarely use them. When I was younger I never did. Now that I'm old and not invincible, I clamp those suckers down as soon as I'm on.

I guess there wasn't enough time or presence of mind to tell the kid to knock off his skis before he got caught by the bystanders. But it worked, so that's awesome.

But there are no bars on the ones in the picture!

Safety bars should be mandatory in all states.

I've never seen a two seater lift with a lap bar.

jingks: Not trying to be a he-man ITG (well, maybe a little), but that kid doesn't look that heavy. Couldn't he have lifted him back on?

kids are heavy.

Pffft. Amateurs. real heroes would have formed a human ladder and then proceeded to ski down the mountain

while still in formation.

Dad once pushed a total stranger out of a ferris wheel.