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we must use the same spell check ;-)
Nice, where's thst from?
Typo: mote
So who here would turn yourself and your kid into the sheriff if this was you right now? Answer honestly. I would have some serious pause knowing a lawsuit and jail time would be coming. We don't have a culture where accidents are tolerated anymore and people can just get away with a life lesson and apologies. When the police and lawyers are always made to get involved with everything that happens it makes people do stuff like this.
If I caused an accident I should pay the damages. I have complete confidence that my lawyer would be able to persuade a judge as to what is fair. Some folk have insurance for just this reason. Some people don't. Some people don't care. It's a parenting failure. It goes back a generation or two. How is someone supposed to bring up a child when they weren't properly brought up?
Very scary. Glad she wasn't more seriously injured or killed.
While I'm a dedicated skier, stories like this give me pause about raising our kids as skiers.
The resorts can and should do more or they risk folks avoiding the sport for safer activities, just as more and more road bikers are training indoors as they hear of other cyclists being hit by cars.
IMO, on a run under the lift like that at Breck, there should be cameras recording from each tower. Mark on the map which runs have video surveillance to give families a place to feel safer and discourage idiots from those runs.
Use the video to pull the passes of dangerous skiers. With RFID and machine learning, identifying dangerous skiers could be semi-automated. If there is an injury from a collision, the video can be used as evidence in both civil and criminal proceedings.
Personally, I wear my helmet cam when skiing with our kids. I forgot it last weekend and felt naked. I turn it on at the top and off at the bottom. I'm sure the injured woman's husband wishes he left his camera running.
So who here would turn yourself and your kid into the sheriff if this was you right now? Answer honestly. I would have some serious pause knowing a lawsuit and jail time would be coming. We don't have a culture where accidents are tolerated anymore and people can just get away with a life lesson and apologies. When the police and lawyers are always made to get involved with everything that happens it makes people do stuff like this.
If I may defend people who were born after the idealized 1950s ... clothing styles and greetings change. It doesn't mean that the young are immoral.
People are either cautious or they are not (risk takers) when in a group environment. It's no different with driving. People drive too close all the time because 99.9% of the time, nothing bad ever happens. So they don't see anything wrong driving 10 feet off someone else's rear bumper going 70+ down the highway. But these are the one's who rear-end someone every few years and hopefully it's not a major accident. They don't account for the unexpected. Cautious people realize it only takes something out of the ordinary to cause a dangerous accident. And they usually avoid them. Relates directly to skiing.
This crossed my mind after reading this article from Fox Denver 31. Specifically the guy's tweets..."Better fess up before I find you" and "I will chase you and look for you the rest of my life". I understand he's upset, and rightfully so...but this just seems so...intense.
.... The resorts can and should do more or they risk folks avoiding the sport for safer activities....
IMO, on a run under the lift like that at Breck, there should be cameras recording from each tower. Mark on the map which runs have video surveillance to give families a place to feel safer and discourage idiots from those runs.
Use the video to pull the passes of dangerous skiers.....
I like these suggestions, and have not previously heard them made.
Imagine how behavior on the slopes might change if there were surveillance cameras on the chairlift towers,
and if people were make aware of their presence and the resort's intention to record accidents.
Ski resorts could let skiers know that videos will be made available to the injured parties, their lawyers, and the police, should they request them,
and that passes will be pulled by if the resort determines reckless skiing is occuring.
Why not?Please don't tell anyone at Vail Resorts about this camera on lift tower idea.