ThistleMae
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LOL....I added my Mt. Everest reference before seeing this...great minds think alike!
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ThistleMae
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Did anyone see that movie about the young people trapped on the ski lift, who ended up being eaten by wolves? Can't remember the name of it, but it was really good.
ThistleMae
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I'm excited about the gondolas! That way I can plan my day around...do I take the boat, do I take the bus, do I take the monorail, do I walk, do I call for the special poka dot vans (whatever they are called) or do I ride the gondolas? Just so many options. The more the better if it gets me where I want to go in less time.
Lift Blog
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Frozen. Shown in lift operator training courses everywhere.
Has something like that ever actually happened? The people getting left on the lift part, not the eaten by wolves part.
jakeman
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I thought wolves were a dangerous, yet essential, operating component of gondolas?
That's only if they are able to borrow the one ladder from the construction crews...
No can do. Without The Ladder, all construction grinds to an immediate halt.
And, we all know how photogenic The Ladder is. If it were used for something so mundane as rescuing guests stuck on a gondola, it would have much less chance of being photographed.
Lift Blog
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mikejs78
Premium Member
This is Central Florida. Gators, not wolves.
Mickey's Skyliner of Death, if you please...
I heard they were training these guys for gondola rescues...
trainplane3
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And if I fall off of that, they can have Sergio catch me...
Source: http://land.allears.net/blogs/stevebarrett/2009/12/ready_holiday_at_epcot.html
Cesar R M
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The last one seems pretty stupid to award her money for her stupidity.
If I read correctly, she pried the doors open of one of the lifts thinking it was in the clear.. ignored weather warnings and still hoped in..
Then she got "emotional distress" for her own dumb actions?
The article also says that Killington admitted that they did not follow procedures, so there is probably more to the story then we are seeing the articles.
What is the standard process for preventing this sort of thing from happening?
Slowjack
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Under joint and several liability rules, any liable party can be made to pay all damages, even if the injured party was also liable. This is what happened in the famous McDonald's coffee case, for example. It can even happen if a liable party is also a victim, which is how people injured in the first WTC bombing were able to sue the Port Authority.
ThistleMae
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True, no frozen fingers that fall off because of frostbite. And right, no wolves to wait for you to try and jump off because Disney closed down for the night and left you there. Good points.
Lift Blog
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Bottom operator calls a last chair/gondola to the top. Some ski areas require a cone or other marker to be placed on this chair. After last chair, operator watches lift to make sure no one loads. When last chair reaches the top (or back to the bottom on a lift with downloading,) lift is stopped. Some ski areas then have a person ski down the line to verify no one is on the lift.
On gondolas with cabin parking, it is somewhat moot because anyone left on the lift would go in a nice warm warehouse anyways!
Creathir
Premium Member
I wonder how other multi-entry transit systems handle this? Same approach?
Treat each direction as “uphill” to prevent boarding?