Stupid things I have seen people do ..

[OldsnowboarderME]

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[tcharron]

I am sure we have seen people do stupid things like: People who touch a burner on a stove to determine if it is HOT ...

My most famous. Move up in the lift line because the people in front of you moved up. Unfortunately, they'd moved up to get ON THE LIFT. :-D

Mass hysteria ensued as the girls went to sit down on the lift chair that I was quite suprised my arse was now on. They all made sure to steer clear of me the rest of the day. I felt horrid, but my friends never let me hear the end of it.

 

[MarkC]

I have see a lift operator come down from the top for a break and forget to get off at the bottom.

 

[billski]

At Loon, observed: talking on a cell phone, held in hand, while skiing top to bottom. Musta been a helluva good (or bad) conversation. Maybe it was his boss.... Great way to ruin a ski day.

 

[billski]

Forgot to close the bar on the ski rack atop the car after a hard day's skiing.
Realizing it only when I get up to speed on I-93 and catch a glimpse of my bud's ski's launching into outerspace. Landing, they were perfectly hurdled between the tires of an 18-wheeler at 65mph. Got them back safe and sound, but I was so embarassed and feeling so guilty I bought him a new ski bag.

 

[Johnskiismore]

Saw something similar at Cannon, some guy, sliding slowly in the middle of Big Link and talking on his cell phone.

Don't worry about anyone else on the trail, we'll just go around you!

Dope.

 

[sledhaulingmedic]

I am sure we have seen people do stupid things like: People who touch a burner on a stove to determine if it is HOT ...

I have you beat, by far. (Stupid people help keep my job secure.)

The homeowner who tried to kill the ants under his shed with a blow torch :flame: He did suceed in killing the ants.

Many others. (Way too many "my cell phone is more important than my driving" to even comprehend.)

 

[andyzee]

I had intended to put this thread in the other forums miscellaneous discussions..

I saw a guy put a thread in the skiing section that should have been in miscellaneous. :razz:

 

[andyzee]

I have been waiting for that one.. I figured Marc would have jump on it first ..

He must be walking to goat. :lol:

 

[Hawkshot99]

He must be walking to goat. :lol:

TO goat at Stowe? or walking his pet goat?:razz:

I have done the move up for the chair when it wasnt my turn, or even when there was a group of 4 of us skiing all day riding the quads then come up to a triple and try and put 4 people on it. Lifties don't always catch it as we found out......:dunce:

 

[wa-loaf]

Drove into a parking garage with the mountain bike still in the rack. Stopped as soon as did it. No real damage, just pushed the rack back along the rain gutter.

 

[Terry]

Drove into a parking garage with the mountain bike still in the rack. Stopped as soon as did it. No real damage, just pushed the rack back along the rain gutter.

Heard a similar one today. I had a customers car in for a trans overhaul so she used her husbands van. Aparently with the roof rack it hit in the parking garage. She said she was wondering what that noise was!

 

[Hawkshot99]

Drove into a parking garage with the mountain bike still in the rack. Stopped as soon as did it. No real damage, just pushed the rack back along the rain gutter.

I did that with my kayaks on my roof. The siding is still dented from where they impacted.

When my family used to have our Suburban, we went on a vacation to Ottawa. The hotel only had a garage, and well my mom nearly got it stuck. Wedged it into the concrete cieling pretty good....:blink:

 

[BushMogulMaster]

Walked out of the base lodge, skis in hand. I was in a bit of a hurry. Dropped the skis on the snow, clicked in. Started toward the lift. Something didn't feel quite right... felt loose and no support. Looked down to find my hiking boots still on my feet. Ooops!

So much for getting first tracks that day!

 

[twinplanx]

At someplace,w/ my bud who now resides in CO, this woman directly in front of us in the lift line, next to be loaded blurts out "STOP THE LIFT STOP THE LIFT !!!" . After the liftey had complied said women realized the party in front of her was in fact 4 people loading a quad, not a triple ... yeah I really hate when the lift stops

 

[Mark_151]

I've seen management at every place I've ever worked do more staggeringly stupid things than I can count.

 

[Mildcat]

My Dad was clearing the driveway after a snow storm. He stopped the snow blower behind his truck to clear off the truck and move it out of the way. When he went to back up he thought he was hung up on a snow bank so he pulled forward to get some speed. When he put it in reverse he ran over the snow blower. Totaled the snow blower, broke a brake line on the truck, and wounded his pride.

 

[hammer]

I am waiting at a light coming out of a supermarket parking lot and the road has some incline to it. The person ahead of me must have not been used to driving a manual transmission and rolled back into me when the light turned to green. The person got out of the car to check the damage and complained that I hadn't given them enough room to roll back ... :-o

I hope your insurance worked out OK on that one...the person could have accused you of rear-ending him/her. :roll:

 

[catskills]

I saw a guy with head metal skis, loading a chair lift. No wait. At some point he got one ski stuck behind the chair and the chair snapped the ski in two places. The chair lift operator never stopped the lift. He continued to ride up the mountain with one ski on. The other ski boot only had a 4 inch section of the ski left dangling by the run away strap. Everyone in the lift line thought that was funny. Yes that was many years ago before ski brakes

 

[Rushski]

When I was young and doing The Billerica Ski Club Youth ski program, believe it was 8th grade, 1983 at Pat's Peak.

One of the hundreds of pre-early teens that I knew was spotted wearing his ski boots on the wrong feet. He tried to act cool and said they were comfortable. Doubt they were and it was funny looking down and seeing the buckles on the inside...