http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/years/2009/0106091vail1.html

Unbelievable that this happened. I agree with others and am surprised that he fell through. You'd think that at some point, he would have gotten wedged in there. I'd think his back has a pretty good scratch right down the spine, to boot. It'll be interesting to hear what happens (certainly hope he got his lift tkt refunded for the day...that'd be a $100 payout right there!)

OK, so this begs the question - "who in here has gotten stuck on the lift in some way?" I haven't, but once I was skiing with a friend who had pulled down his bib straps off of his shoulders for the ride up. Then he tried to de-chair, a strap got stuck and the lift op didn't stop the lift until he was dangling in the air, almost over the netting. Worst thing was that the suit started ripping as he was dangling there, but, fortunately, stopped and he was rescued in time and skied the rest of the day. Still a humorous story, 20 years later! (well, he doesn't really thing so! )

Sheesh.

I don't really get how on earth this happened. Maybe the guy should sue Vail and the maker of his ski pants!

We had an "incident" and subsequent discussion at my house when someone left the seat up, and my wife expected the seat to be down when she sat at night in the dark. Needless to say I did not win the "you should always check before sitting down" argument, and I will never ever leave the seat up, unless to signal a desire to be single again...