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- From: glenb@sr.hp.com (Glen Baker)
- Newsgroups: rec.skiing
- Subject: Re: Helmets (again): Skiing Safety
- Message-ID: <C1H2Ko.GuC@srgenprp.sr.hp.com>
- Date: 26 Jan 93 17:43:36 GMT
- References: <1993Jan26.040209.10530@wam.umd.edu>
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- Babak Gohari (bgohari@wam.umd.edu) wrote:
-
- > But maybe the mountains should take some more responsibility in their
- > skier's safety?
-
- Right. It's all the area's fault. Blame the area, that's the ticket!
- They shouldn't allow people on the hill who will lose control. They
- shouldn't let the parking lot get icy. The guy who hit me cut me with his
- edges...the area should have checked his skis and made him detune 'em
- before they sold him a ticket. The chair ran too slow and I got cold, I
- should have been warned. I ignored the signs at the bottom of the lift
- and ended up at the top of an expert slope that I couldn't ski so I fell
- and hurt myself...the area should have had people at the bottom checking
- skier ability. I got hit by some dweeb who ignored the signs at the
- bottom of the chair and ended up on an expert slope...the area shouldn't
- have let him on the chair. I hit a bump and fell down...the area should
- have groomed the hill! The slope was too smooth and I got going way too
- fast...the area should never have groomed the hill!
-
- Excuse me for going non-linear here...but anybody who advocates this
- kind of idiocy doesn't belong in the mountains. Stay home on the couch
- (which of course is flammable if you dump gasoline on it and smoke...
- the manufacturer should provide a warning label).
-
-
- ..glen
-