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- From: edlee@gandalf.ca (Ed Lee)
- Subject: Re: Skiing Safety OOCY stories
- Message-ID: <1993Jan27.154556.13919@gandalf.ca>
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- References: <C1Fppv.2n6C@austin.ibm.com> <1k3k6sINN3d5@sixgun.East.Sun.COM> <1993Jan26.232650.10435@newshost.lanl.gov> <1993Jan27.134104.1542@bmerh85.bnr.ca>
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- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 15:45:56 GMT
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- I've been skiing for over 10 years and I've never injured
- myself due to skiing (knock on wood) and I'm a firm believer
- that you will only injure yourself if you ski beyond your
- abilities.
-
- Anyways, with this discussion on how the ski patrols should
- be tightening down on the "reckless skiing" by confiscating
- their lift ticket; a couple of friends of mine are members
- of the Ski Patrol Association (whatever it's called) and they
- say that most hills reserves the rights to revoke the ticket
- but only give this power to a few 'senior' patrollers and
- some of the lifties.
-
- They said that in most cases, for them to try and take
- someone's ticket away, they would have to point them out to
- an empowered liftie and ask him/her to mark the offender's
- ticket and give the offender a warning. And then, if they
- catch the offender again, they can ask the empowered liftie
- to revoke the ticket. They all find this process sort of a
- pain and will only exercise this procedure if the offender
- is actually doing something very dangerous to the other
- skiers. They wouldn't really care too much if someone is
- just trying to kill himself without inconveniencing others.
-
- These patrollers also have a nickname for those really bad
- skiers who cause all kinds of problems (nothing to do with
- their skiing ability that is): SPORE - Stupid People On
- Rented Equipment, or SPOTOE - Stupid People On Their Own
- Equipment. I thought it was pretty funny. " ... and some
- SPORE came down and .... "
-
- edly
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