Monday, August 31, 2009

Instantaneous Notoriety



Did y'all see this guy who slipped off of, and was de-pants-ed by a ski lift?

Well I just came across it.

Apparently the guy was stuck up there, dangling, for 15 minutes or so before he was saved and re-clad. Meanwhile, other skiers took digital pics, giggled, and later uploaded them to the World Wide Web!

He suffered harsh *exposure*; and there are jokes aplenty about his *ski pole*, etc.

This poor man just wanted to hit the slopes that afternoon. He had no idea he'd end up becoming the butt of like millions of web jokes! See google if you're sufficiently small-minded to pile on.

It's not nearly as bad, but sort of similar to Steve Bartman whose life also irrevocably changed in an instant.

I guess we really shouldn't laugh (too loudly). In this hyper-digital age, such tragedy could befall anyone of us, at any time.

We should all ask ourselves how we'd measure up....in the freezing cold to boot!

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

If I'm stuck on the chair behind that jack ass I am going to take a picture. You forget; there were many many people stuck on a cold lift waiting to get to the top because of this guy. If the snow was deep enough, and the lift low enough, I might have been tempted to jump.

Slow out