Skier sues buddy

this seems ridiculous

http://unofficialnetworks.com/2015/02/skier-sues-friend-following-ski-accident


we have no free will, we only do what were told by others????

Has to be a joke. But a good one:

Teton Village, WY- After a skier broke his femur in the Paint Brush area at Jackson Hole Mountain Resort, 27-year-old Chad Bradley is pursuing legal action against his friend and Teton County resident Ted “Shred” Powell. The lawsuit claims Ted Powell exercised “overt negligence considering the degree of Chad Bradley’s skiing experience.”

According to Mr. Bradley’s lawyer, a Denver based attorney, “we see this type of thing all the time. A novice from Colorado goes up to Wyoming to ski with a friend. The friend tells him there is nothing wrong with his skiing ability. In actuality, he knows that his friend grew up in Alabama and sucks at skiing.”

Although Mr. Bradley declined to comment on the ongoing lawsuit against his friend Mr. Powell, Ted Powell was reached for comment at the Hostel X, speaking somberly while sipping a Pabst Blue Ribbon beer.

“I feel bad for Chad. He busted up his leg up pretty good but It’s like ‘hey dude, I didn’t make you follow me over here but you did. So hop over those rocks and arc some GS turns before the groomer’.” All the while Powell gestured using a flat hand moving side to side to mimic the maneuvers Chad should have executed that day. The attorney later replied to these comments saying:

“Ted had no right taking my client into that area, it’s well known that Chad is a double blue square skier at best. Frankly, Chad was way out of his element.”

The run is marked as a double black diamond.

When asked about negligence, Mr. Powell responded, “NEGLIGENCE!? He asked me to show him around on a POW day… A POW DAY! And if it were anybody else I would have ditched him, lapped the Tram, and maybe shredded a few Rock Springs laps. Instead, I put on my nice guy hat and took him to do a mellow Paintbrush.”

According to eyewitness accounts, Mr. Bradley was standing on top of the prominent cliff section, when he removed his University of Alabama beanie and realized his goggles had fogged and frozen while dangling around his perspiring neck. After putting on his goggles, his vision seemed to be impaired by 98% but his face showed resolve. Giving his buddy Ted a closed fist “pound,” Mr. Bradley turned and asked Ted to take some “footy.” With the camera on, Mr. Bradley turned his tips downhill, immediately lost control, and was unable to self-arrest. On the way down, Mr. Bradley hit rocks, ice, and moguls until he came to a stop on Upper Amphitheater. Reports indicate that Mr. Powell was laughing loudly until Mr. Bradley’s slide came to an end.

“The first thing I thought was ‘man what a good digger’.” said Mr. Powell “but then I realized he wasn’t moving and I could hear him screaming in agony.”

Ski Patrollers were the first on the scene besides Powell.

After stabilizing his leg, the patrollers lifted him into a sled, when Chad said “see you at the clinic buddy” to which Ted responded, “Well I just got a text from Joe and we’re going do a quick Four Pines… I’ll see you at the Moose.”

The lawsuit is ongoing and seeks to reimburse the victim for all medical charges as well as compensate Mr. Bradley for defamation of character. The defamation allegedly occurred after the fact at the Mangy Moose Saloon, where Ted publicly stated that Chad hurt himself “by tomahawking through some pretty easy shit.”

A court date is yet to be set.

Pathetic. A little harsh not meeting his buddy at the clinic, but then, it's not clear that they're close friends. You don't get the feeling that they are.

Lol at the defendant's name, "Ted Shred". Reminds me of my days bumming in Park City when one of our new friends arrived from out of town the first thing we always did was to take them up to Jupiter bowl. If they ever skied before they were new to the concept of taking off skis and hiking up a ridge to ski so they would always overheat and fog up their goggles and get all pissed off at us at the bottom after falling most of the way. Never ended in a broken leg or lawsuit fortunately.

This reads like some joke story from The Onion though and what really makes me skeptical is the part where Ted says he gave up a powder day to show his friend from Alabama around.

Pretty sure this is satire. A quick Google show this author writing other satirical articles for the site.

Def calling bullshit


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This would be thrown out right away if it was Shred Powell's first offense. But the guy has a rap sheet as long as a Mt Snow lift line on President's weekend. It's no coincidence that Shred never started rolling GoPro footy, that was key evidence in his last round of charges.

Don't know how far Chad will get but Ted's a real model for PSIA...:beer:

Funny....I was just on paintbrush today....
Scoping out a small but optional huck, all of the cliffs in that area are optional. You can tell from pretty far away where the cliffs are

"by tomahawking through some pretty easy shit." LOL!

That's pretty funny. You guys really need to lay off the weed if you read that and had to research if it was real or not. Just sayin...

I was told today that this is NOT satire. This is coming from the head of safety as JHMR.

This is why I ski alone (not because no one is willing to ski with me...)

Nobody talks like that in an interview for a real news outlet. Grass isn't legal in WY yet. This feels like satire. If its not its pretty funny.

I'm at Jackson hole ride now and the instructor were talking about it in front of the head of safety, who confirmed this is for real.

I asked him twice if he was serious and he said "yes"

I don't know who wrote this or why they wrote it that way, maybe a lawyer representing the guy getting sued

What the heck is a "double blue square"? Is that like a triple green circle?

C-Rex said:

"by tomahawking through some pretty easy shit." LOL!

That's pretty funny. You guys really need to lay off the weed if you read that and had to research if it was real or not. Just sayin...

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I was confident after reading it that it was satire, and Googled as backup for others who would still question. Now that others are claiming veracity, I'm confused. If true, someone really stylized the writing of the article. It reads as full on ridiculous.

skiNEwhere said:

I was told today that this is NOT satire.

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Until I see a copy of the complaint with a filed stamp, this story is Onion material.

I'll take a step closer to believing it's real when someone posts the "footy" Ted took of Chad.

Checked with my buddy that just got back from skiing with some friends at J-Hole, confirms that this totally legit and was the talk of the town over the last couple days.

Even If it its real it still a joke


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