Downhill skiing is a winter sport that you won’t catch me doing. There’s too many bones to be irreparably shattered and too much potential impaling.
Now, I have this to add to my worries:
Man left dangling upside down, pantsless after Vail lift mishap
JANUARY 6—In a bizarre incident that will surely lead to litigation (or an out-of-court settlement), a skier at Colorado’s ritzy Vail resort was left dangling upside down and pantsless from a chairlift last Thursday morning. The January 1 mishap apparently occurred after the male skier, 48, and a child boarded a high-speed lift in Vail’s Blue Sky Basin. It appears that the chairlift’s fold-down seat was somehow not in the lowered position, which caused the man to partially fall through the resulting gap. His right ski got jammed in the ascending chairlift, and that kept him upended since his boot never dislodged from its binding. As seen in the photos on the following pages (which were snapped by fellow skiers), the Skyline Express lift was stopped shortly after the pair’s botched boarding resulted in the man dangling from the lift. The exposed skier was stuck for about 15 minutes before Vail personnel backed the lift up and successfully dislodged the unidentified man from the four-seat chair. The images on page four and five were taken by Marty Odom (who can be reached at martyodm@gmail.com if you’re interested in licensing the photos). In a statement released this afternoon, Vail Resorts, which operates the ski area, reported that the skier was not injured after being “suspended for approximately seven minutes.” The press release did not explain how the mishap occurred, only that “the man was caught on the chair.”
Wisconsin residents are still obsessing with the minutia of everything Brett Favre related. I gave up regularly listening to sports radio two years ago, just to avoid hearing the never ending discussion of when Favre would retire.
These jackasses have been leading rallies to get Favre reinstated, which considering there’s an election looming and a war going still raging only make this fiasco even more ridiculous.
ABUJA - Nigerian schoolchildren who received laptops from a U.S. aid organization have used them to explore pornographic sites on the Internet, the official News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reported Thursday.
NAN said its reporter had seen pornographic images stored on several of the children’s laptops.
“Efforts to promote learning with laptops in a primary school in Abuja have gone awry as the pupils freely browse adult sites with explicit sexual materials,” NAN said.
A representative of the One Laptop Per Child aid group was quoted as saying that the computers, part of a pilot scheme, would now be fitted with filters.
A historic day in America—a Hindu delivered the morning invocation in the Senate chamber—only to have the ceremony disrupted by three Christian right activists.
30 Rock’s over for the season and thankfully it’ll be back next year even if Alec Baldwin has to pretend to troop through it so his public doesn’t have to concern themselves any longer with his parenting abilities.
Let’s be honest Thursdays have been lonelier and a lot lighter on laughs without Tina Fey & Co. The Office is unevenly funny most of the time and Scrubs keeps trying too hard to maintain any vitality.
Before the withdrawal shakes get too intense:
Go here, to catch up on any episodes you may have missed.
Check out Jesse Thorn’s hysterical interview with Jack McBrayer (Kenneth the page) on The Sound of Young America—available in both audio and video(!) formats.
If anything it’s worth listening to just for this exchange:
Jack: I haven’t made any major irresponsible purchases yet. Oh, I can’t wait to.
Jesse: What’s the first thing you’re gonna buy?
Jack: I’m gonna buy a futon. A futon made of baby skin.
Below, Tina Fey’s trip to the Howard Stern show from last November, in which she dishes on her pre-marital inability to even give it away, SNL, and of course that certain blonde Fraggle-haired-walking-STD who’s currently crusading to further prove that not everyone has to abide by our country’s laws.1
If you’re still fooling yourself that Paris Hilton’s going to do 24 consecutive hours let alone a minute of jail time, let me take this opportunity to welcome you to this country.[back]
“After death, this parasite is able to restart the heart of its victim for up to two hours after the initial demise of the person where the individual behaves in extremely violent ways from what is believed to be a combination of brain damage and a chemical released into blood during “resurrection.”
Cambodian officials say that the outbreak has been contained and the public has no need to worry.”
“No need to worry”.
Famous last words. At least there is information to prepare us for this scenario.
