Natasha Richardson dies at 45 after ski accident

[Yeagermeister]

You'd be surprised how many people choose not to wear head protection while skiing or snowboarding.

I wouldn't.

I'm a sale's rep for several ski/snowboard companies, and one of them is a helmet company. Most people are too vain to wear them. It's damn hard to build a high density protective helmet that doesn't make you look somewhat goofy.

....sadly, it's the vain people who end up drooling or dead.

...and before people get all huffy, I'm not calling Mrs. Richardson "vain". By all accounts she was a wonderful person.

I've been around auto racing all my life so I understand the need for head protection.

 

[Jon88]

Foiled again! Damn. I hate the offseason!!

So it was a lie, 5Stars?

 

[5Stars]

So it was a lie, 5Stars?

Belive what you want to beleve(sp)

 

[Sarge]

Wow that's unbelievable....losing your life over ten dollars when you are worth millions.

A helmet saved my life last year. Of course I was on a snowmobile, and going kinda fast, and sorta hit a tree....fractured my shoulder in five places, tore the rotator cuff and separated it. My head also hit the tree and I lost my hearing for a while. No helmet - no Sarge......

...bottom line - ***wear saftey equipment ALWAYS.*** There is a reason it was invented.

Carry on.

 

[big dog cowboy]

A helmet saved my life last year. Of course I was on a snowmobile, and going kinda fast, and sorta hit a tree....fractured my shoulder in five places, tore the rotator cuff and separated it. My head also hit the tree and I lost my hearing for a while. No helmet - no Sarge......

...bottom line - ***wear saftey equipment ALWAYS.*** There is a reason it was invented.

Carry on.

I'm guessing everything is OK now? Sounds like a pretty sore ordeal to me.

 

[Sarge]

I'm guessing everything is OK now? Sounds like a pretty sore ordeal to me.

Doing a lot better, thanks. Had surgery and still have some minor hearing loss in my left ear. I was knocked out cold. When I came to, I had no hearing at all.......It's been about 14 months now...

WEAR YOUR SAFETY EQUIPMENT - ALWAYS.

One thing I didn't do was have the helmet strapped on, it was found about 50 feet away from me. So, not only should one WEAR safety equipment, they should do it the right way. I was too lazy to use the chin strap -........... well, I use it now...........

 

[Yeagermeister]

A helmet saved my life last year. Of course I was on a snowmobile, and going kinda fast, and sorta hit a tree....fractured my shoulder in five places, tore the rotator cuff and separated it. My head also hit the tree and I lost my hearing for a while. No helmet - no Sarge......

...bottom line - ***wear saftey equipment ALWAYS.*** There is a reason it was invented.

Carry on.

This explains quite a bit

j/k Good to hear you are ok

 

[Bob Sacamano]

I've been around auto racing all my life so I understand the need for head protection.

I KNEW you wore head-gear!

 

[DallasCowpoke]

Belive what you want to beleve(sp)

Here's an idea 5S. Google Shopping and find me some? I'd by it by the case!

I go into the local pool supply 3-4 times a season, have for years. Odd how never so much as caught a glimpse of any product/s labeled "TT Tattletale" or "Urine Trouble"?

This stuff is like the Bigfoot of consumer products. Everybody's either seen it, used it or been caught by it, yet they can never produce it.

Weird, must be a pain tying to make a profit margin on something like that???

 

[Sarge]

This explains quite a bit

j/k Good to hear you are ok

I've heard that one a zillion time since the accident. But........I also now have "selective" hearing.

Funny how you DO hear "dinners ready" and you don't hear "clean the dishes".

 

[Faerluna]

I KNEW you wore head-gear!

Are you making fun of my headgear?

 

[Bob Sacamano]

Are you making fun of my headgear?

I'm not afraid of Kilyin

so yes

 

[Yeagermeister]

I KNEW you wore head-gear!

Who needs headgear?

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[Yeagermeister]

I'm not afraid of Kilyin

so yes

I'd worry more about Faerluna :laugh2:

 

[5Stars]

Hard to believe you can die on the bunny slope, where there's nothing to run into. My condolences to her family.

This a pic of where she fell down at. I found it on Google. She might have started sliding and hit those rocks with her head.


http://tbn2.google.com/images?q=tbn...r.com/images/blog/wysiwyg/image/skiresort.jpg


If you google images of Natasha on the second page of images you can see this picture better and get a larger view where she fell...you can clearly see big rocks on the right hand side.

 

[silverbear]

No not at all. Driving is different, everyone drives. To me, dieing in a car accident is tragic, unless its your fault. Same with a plane crash or a sinking boat.

Im not saying shes stupid but if she didnt go skiing she would be alive today, same with Sonny Bono, and that Kennedy.

Look at you, acting like skiing is a deadly occupation, and everybody who takes it up deserves whatever fate befalls them... well, I worked at a ski resort for several years, selling lift tickets for them when the golf course was closed, and for a few of those winters my roommate was the professional ski patrol... and while he could tell some gruesome stories about injuries he treated (I remember him calmly talking about sewing up some racer's scrotal sack when the racer caught a gate, and his recently-sharpened skis kicked back in the worst possible spot), he'd also tell you that the percentage of skiiers who get hurt is like less than one tenth of one per cent of all skiers who hit the slopes... that's one in a thousand...

So Ms. Richardson was hardly being reckless, taking a ski lesson on the bunny slope... heck, they don't even use chair lifts on most bunny slopes, they use rope tows...

Having recently read the thread you started about the slain police officers, I find it difficult to reconcile those sentiments with the ones you express in here...

Her death was a horrible, horrible accident, and certainly not something she brought on herself... I've never even heard of anybody dying on a freakin' bunny slope before, that's how freakish that is...

Bono and the Kennedy kid were somewhat different stories, they were apparently skiing in the woods, the way folks who fancy themselves good skiers will sometimes do... they DID cause their own deaths, by skiing RECKLESSLY...

 

[silverbear]

Unlike many of my friends and peers in my age group, I have never felt the urge to go skiing...especially after my sister tore her knee up doing so. If the good Lord had meant for man to ski, he'd have given us longer feet!

I learned how to do it when I worked at the ski resort, and was reasonably proficient... problem is, I don't like cold weather, so about the only time I indulged was just after a fresh snowfall... I remember getting to the slopes one morning right after about a 10 inch snowfall, but it wasn't real cold... I was the first on the lift that morning, and for the first few runs, the snow was completely virgin... the only tracks were mine, and the only thing I could see was the tips of my skis, as the powder would fall in on the rest of the skis...

It was the most fun, largely because you literally couldn't get going TOO fast, the powder slowed you down... and I felt like the only person in the entire world, skiing those slopes that morning... nice, leisurely runs, then get right back on the chair lift without a wait for your next run... my legs were EXHAUSTED by noon... happily, that's when the bar opened, LOL...

 

[Yeagermeister]

I learned how to do it when I worked at the ski resort, and was reasonably proficient... problem is, I don't like cold weather, so about the only time I indulged was just after a fresh snowfall... I remember getting to the slopes one morning right after about a 10 inch snowfall, but it wasn't real cold... I was the first on the lift that morning, and for the first few runs, the snow was completely virgin... the only tracks were mine, and the only thing I could see was the tips of my skis, as the powder would fall in on the rest of the skis...

It was the most fun, largely because you literally couldn't get going TOO fast, the powder slowed you down... and I felt like the only person in the entire world, skiing those slopes that morning... nice, leisurely runs, then get right back on the chair lift without a wait for your next run... my legs were EXHAUSTED by noon... happily, that's when the bar opened, LOL...

Must be the hibernation thing :laugh1:

 

[jem88]

I learned how to do it when I worked at the ski resort, and was reasonably proficient... problem is, I don't like cold weather, so about the only time I indulged was just after a fresh snowfall... I remember getting to the slopes one morning right after about a 10 inch snowfall, but it wasn't real cold... I was the first on the lift that morning, and for the first few runs, the snow was completely virgin... the only tracks were mine, and the only thing I could see was the tips of my skis, as the powder would fall in on the rest of the skis...

It was the most fun, largely because you literally couldn't get going TOO fast, the powder slowed you down... and I felt like the only person in the entire world, skiing those slopes that morning... nice, leisurely runs, then get right back on the chair lift without a wait for your next run... my legs were EXHAUSTED by noon... happily, that's when the bar opened, LOL...

The cold has always been the biggest factor in my not skiing. I just find it hard to deal with - 30 degree celsius weather (that's -22 fahrenheit according to the online converter.)

That being said, Mont Tremblant (where Richardson's accident took place) is a stunningly beautiful place. Highly recommend to anybody visiting the Montreal (it's about an hour north) whether it's in Winter or in Summer.

 

[peplaw06]

Having recently read the thread you started about the slain police officers, I find it difficult to reconcile those sentiments with the ones you express in here...

I was going to point that out too... No disrespect to the police officers who were killed, but if this guy wanted to apply his same reasoning to that scenario as he did to Ms. Richardson's skiing accident, then he would say, "those cops should have picked a safer line of work."