Natasha Richardson dies at 45 after ski accident

[Bob Sacamano]

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...

I agree w/ you, but apparently she wasn't wearing a helmet

 

[silverbear]

Must be the hibernation thing :laugh1:

Never thought of it that way, but you're probably right... LOL...

 

[silverbear]

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."

What bothers me right now is that he's gonna think we're ripping on him, and I really don't mean it that way... I applaud the thread he started about those slain police officers... that tells me he's a decent sort, so I hope that pointing out this inconsistency in his beliefs will cause him to examine his position, possibly modify it...

 

[silverbear]

I agree w/ you, but apparently she wasn't wearing a helmet

I never wore a helmet when I skied, I have to admit that... and to tell you the truth, back then nobody but the racers did wear helmets, and they only did so because, as I understand it, NASTAR required them to...

While a helmet would probably have saved her life, I'd wager that precious few beginners taking lessons wear them... and they don't die, so we're back to a tragic, freak accident...

And that ski resort should certainly look at the presence of those rocks right up next to the bunny slope... they should never have been there, or the bunny slope should have been elsewhere... I wouldn't be surprised if the Neeson family sued that resort for exactly that reason...

 

[Bob Sacamano]

I never wore a helmet when I skied, I have to admit that... and to tell you the truth, back then nobody but the racers did wear helmets, and they only did so because, as I understand it, NASTAR required them to...

While a helmet would probably have saved her life, I'd wager that precious few beginners taking lessons wear them... and they don't die, so we're back to a tragic, freak accident...

And that ski resort should certainly look at the presence of those rocks right up next to the bunny slope... they should never have been there, or the bunny slope should have been elsewhere... I wouldn't be surprised if the Neeson family sued that resort for exactly that reason...

still, we all seen how much a fall w/o a helmet could impact a beginning skiier's life

so kids, if you're reading on here, always wear a helmet

 

[silverbear]

still, we all seen how much a fall w/o a helmet could impact a beginning skiier's life

so kids, if you're reading on here, always wear a helmet

Yeah, I'm coming around to that position too...