Real News: Man Left Dangling Upside-down and Pants-less from Ski Lift

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http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/years/2009/0106091vail1.html

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.

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Beautiful.

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Cool.

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Nowhere does it explain why his pants were down. And wouldn't you wear underwear in that sort of temperature?

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Yeah I don't really understand the pants part.

It is a beau-ti-ful shot though. I don't see why he should get to sue though. It's not like the Ski People did it to him on purpose, right?

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Atleast he can make the excuse of the cold air making his dick small and not genetics.

Plus The man was cutting down on wind resistance going free baller down the slope. I'd do the same thing

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Oh and.

NICE ASS.

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What an amateur. Couldn't he just do an upside down sit up and grab the ski lift and untangle his pants?

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i don't think he wanted to bare the full moon on patrons below.

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What if they were filming the sequel to 30 Days of Night only this time it's with werewolves instead of vampires.

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I would die if that happened to me. Or ask to be killed. Id have the kid kill me. So em-bare-ass-ing.

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nathaniel parker wrote:

What if they were filming the sequel to 30 Days of Night only this time it's with werewolves instead of vampires.

Sounds plausible. But where are the werewolves?

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underneath him, that's why he didn't want to moon them.

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I already knew that. I wanted Nate to create some MORE colorful commentary, I gave the opening for more is all.

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There's a full moon out. Literally. I'm not talking about the photo.

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