r/SubredditDrama • u/[deleted] • Jan 20 '16

Rare Is disregarding safety an American thing? Safety bar drama in r/skiing

The bar's there for a reason. Natural selection in action

Your a complete idiot if you don't use it when available, no logic can debate this.

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u/out_stealing_horses Jan 20 '16

Nice find.

I think the existence of bars on the lift depends massively on where you are skiing. The new express lifts here don't have them. But it certainly doesn't hurt to lower 'em if you've got 'em (and for people like me who get scared of heights, it can be a mite more comforting).

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u/[deleted] Jan 20 '16

The mountain near where I grew up never had these bars until they built a new high-speed quad-lift to replace an older lift. 3rd or 4th day of the season some dude is leaning forward to put his snowboard on* and the 2 people on the other end of the lift, not realizing what's going on, swing the safety bar down, crack this guy in the back of the head so that he's bleeding all the fuck over and is concussed, and almost knock him off the chair.

Safety bars were all gone 3 days later.

Oh yeah, and I'm pretty sure this involved more canadians than americans. 

* At the time it was pretty common to lean forward and strap you back foot
  back on while riding the lift, so you didn't have to stop at the top
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u/[deleted] Jan 20 '16 edited Mar 16 '17

You went to Egypt

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u/IntrepidusX Jan 20 '16

The people arguing against it have never experienced a violent mechanical failure on an older lift. Holy fuck put the bar down.

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u/[deleted] Jan 20 '16

Fuck your bar, give me a goddamn harness.

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u/[deleted] Jan 20 '16

I was at Breck last year and there's one lift that takes you over 5 stories high above the snow and skiers below. Well at one point the lift stopped for a good 10-15 minutes and we were swinging back and forth, in -2 degree (f) weather, with the wind blowing.

That bar was reeeeaaaal nice that day.

Also the leg rests are the shit, they always give me a few more runs at the end of the day.

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u/[deleted] Jan 21 '16

It pisses me off a little when someone refuses to have the bar down on a lift, it pisses me off a lot when said bar has a footrest.

This guy has the best argument in this entire thread.

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u/Kevinrfoote Jan 21 '16

The guy that slipped on the chairlift in Vail a couple years ago, got hit pants caught and dangled upside down with his pants at his knees and butt exposed did not have the bar down. Case and point.

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u/keithbelfastisdead Jan 20 '16 edited Jan 21 '16

I love this new brand of off piste drama today.