How’s It Hanging?

Remember that scene from Dumb & Dumber when Harry got his tongue stuck on the ski lift?

Yeah, this is worse.

According to The Smoking Gun, a skier at Colorado’s posh Vail resort somehow got flipped off of a lift and ended up hanging upside-down, half-nekkid as dozens of other skiers, um, looked on …

From TSG:

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 …

… 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.

TSG also notes that the incident is likely to prompt litigation, which is predictable.

Of course, during our annual FITS winter getaways to Snowshoe, the only cause for litigation is if Sic Willie doesn’t pull down his pants and give the ladies a little show.

In fact, next to the Nineteenth Amendment, we can’t think of a more fundamental woman’s right …

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