When you go to homedepot there are heavy objects stacked 30 feet high. One could fall and kill you – You know the risk, if you get crushed, sucks for you!
Doug, it is people like you who make these risks even more inevitable. There are risks everywhere you go. As Mark put it, you could get crushed at Home Depot. You could get into a car accident, you could slip and fall, or you could fall out of your chair reading this. All risks, that could happen. I hope you don’t work in the insurance industry. Because if you can’t see risks, you are in the wrong profession.
Sheila, the matter here is not about setting a wall up at the bottom of the slope, it is the fact that some Einstein’s here think that there are no risks associated with sliding down a hill on ice, on an inflated tube, at high speeds, with no braking mechanism. Come on think people.
Go back a bunch of months and you will find an IJ article about a Chinese lady who DID get squished at her local HD.
(would this be yellow journalism?)
No operator would be stupid enough to design a flaw like a wall within a short distance of a ride into their system. But ski areas do represent one of the highest concentrations of participant danger imagineable.
Where else do you take clients without physicals and in different shapes and sizes, subject them to freezing temperatures, strap long boards onto their cement-block boots, take them to the top of even a slightly-tilted hill, and expect them to overcome adult fears AND have fun?
And then, when they get some practice, hand them by a wire, send them to a higher hill with a steeper tilt, and expect them to remember what they learned earlier in the day while STILL HAVING FUN?
And for the kids who want to ride snowboards – after they get some lessons in, we force them to jump off tall ramps, bash into tree stumps, hop along handrails etc and THEY do have FUN.
And these clients PAY for the privilege of being taught what to do and how to do it. And the only good clients are the ones who keep coming back for MORE FUN.
Tubing was designed to give the other family members something safe to do for a couple of hours, or for skiers/boarders to spend some time with the rest of the family while at the hill. I have a hunch if you looked at Messobrokenbones, VA, you’d find the area was laid out OK but that the conditions might have mitigated some changes.
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When you go to homedepot there are heavy objects stacked 30 feet high. One could fall and kill you – You know the risk, if you get crushed, sucks for you!
Are you folks stupid?
too much risk…michael kennedy, sonny bono, natasha richardson…we heard about them because they were famous…so many others…too many variables…
too many variables, or too many vegetables?
Doug, it is people like you who make these risks even more inevitable. There are risks everywhere you go. As Mark put it, you could get crushed at Home Depot. You could get into a car accident, you could slip and fall, or you could fall out of your chair reading this. All risks, that could happen. I hope you don’t work in the insurance industry. Because if you can’t see risks, you are in the wrong profession.
The crushing at home depot was sarcasm – That would be a huge lawsuit – You dont expect to get killed by falling objects at HD.
Just like you dont expect that big wall at the bottem of the run to be close enough to break your neck
What if they set up a wall at the bottom of the run and 100 people got hurt from hitting it??
Would that be make any difference to you fools?
Read the news Mark. It happens. It is a risk.
Sheila, the matter here is not about setting a wall up at the bottom of the slope, it is the fact that some Einstein’s here think that there are no risks associated with sliding down a hill on ice, on an inflated tube, at high speeds, with no braking mechanism. Come on think people.
Go back a bunch of months and you will find an IJ article about a Chinese lady who DID get squished at her local HD.
(would this be yellow journalism?)
No operator would be stupid enough to design a flaw like a wall within a short distance of a ride into their system. But ski areas do represent one of the highest concentrations of participant danger imagineable.
Where else do you take clients without physicals and in different shapes and sizes, subject them to freezing temperatures, strap long boards onto their cement-block boots, take them to the top of even a slightly-tilted hill, and expect them to overcome adult fears AND have fun?
And then, when they get some practice, hand them by a wire, send them to a higher hill with a steeper tilt, and expect them to remember what they learned earlier in the day while STILL HAVING FUN?
And for the kids who want to ride snowboards – after they get some lessons in, we force them to jump off tall ramps, bash into tree stumps, hop along handrails etc and THEY do have FUN.
And these clients PAY for the privilege of being taught what to do and how to do it. And the only good clients are the ones who keep coming back for MORE FUN.
Tubing was designed to give the other family members something safe to do for a couple of hours, or for skiers/boarders to spend some time with the rest of the family while at the hill. I have a hunch if you looked at Messobrokenbones, VA, you’d find the area was laid out OK but that the conditions might have mitigated some changes.
Our legal system in thsi country apparently says that Im right and you guys are wrong – Nuff Said