This morning I heard of this. Funny, only if you’re the onlooker. If it were me, just maybe it would be a cause to sue. Would you?
You would never live it down. To see all of the pics, go to the above link.
Richard and I were talking about skiing the other day, and whether or not he could ski with his knee in the condition that it’s in. I haven’t skied since breaking my ankle several years ago on an anniversary ski trip. I got just two runs in before we called it quits because of the super cold temps. That evening I missed a step on a sidewalk and fell, completely bending my ankle over. It took forever for it to heal. I’m ready to give it a go though.
In the spirit of skiing, here are a couple of pics from a 60s? knitting leaflet:
What would someone think if you zoomed down the slopes in one of these:
or maybe this number? How many of these were really made, I wonder? Were they given as a gift, as a suprise to the recipient? "Here sweetie, I made you the cutest ski hat – because I know how much you like being a little kooky! Or you could wear it if you decide to go ax murder that family down the block."
There’s a part of me that wants to knit all of them up and display them in the den, mounted, like hunting trophys. What else could you do with them?
warning! nudie alert!
January 7, 2009 by fabricgirl66
That ski-chair mishap would be one of the most embarrassing ( and possibly scary ) things that could happen to somebody. I guess how it would affect you would depend upon your temperament.
As far as the kooky ski masks go, they look like something Ethan would love…
Sarah
I heard the photographer is getting sued (by the skier???).
My mother would have knit something like that!
But according to NPR as well as Smoking Gun, there were several people snapping pics with their cellphones. How could they be sued?
Did she make lovely things like that for you to wear?
That is going to the last time I go skiing and take the lift. I was up there like that for fifteen minutes!!!! I chapped things that should never ever be chapped!
After the initial scare, I probably would have been laughing for the fifteen minutes. What else could you do?
And I am still laughing at those ski masks. Truly a mark of either a completely sadistic killer or a “kooky” (that word really fits) nut job tearing up the slopes…
I really dig those masks….
e
Those masks do make it so that I want to kill…. hmmm…
Seriously, those masks creap me the fuck out!!!!
Why would you need to sue? For sure you’d get a lifetime ski pass from the resort, and it’s not even apparent it was their fault. Maybe it was the guy the didn’t lower the seat all the way down. At the very least, I don’t think anybody can prevent freak accidents like that.
As for suing the photo takers, you might as well sue somebody for swearing at you on the street. People are free to do what they want in a public space and they’ve definitely posted much more harmful things on the internet.
The only one I feel sorry for is the kid. He must have felt really scared hanging there with his dad about to fall from the lift!