Ski lift accident in Georgia (looks horrific)

[Rockerfeller]

We went skiing last year and I hated the lifts so much.

Anyway. This looks horrific, apparently the power went the brakes failed and gravity just did it's job with horrific results.

Aibu to think a more up to date system would have stopped it from
Happening? Or was it inevitable when the power went?

www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/03/16/tourists-flung-control-ski-lift-malfunction-georgia-resort/amp/

The standards are different though - the Georgian lift wasn’t required to have a separate brake system if it started reversing. It’s the separate brake system that stops the lift that is the additional safety requirement in most resorts. It will be interesting if the brake system was fitted and failed - but most of the reports I’ve seen (out of resorts reassuring clients) are stating that it did not have the separate auto-stop.

Keilninnock - what a ridiculous thing to say? Some of those people might have saved up for 10 years to go on a skiing holiday. It’s not a privileged sport at all and to say that they kind of deserved it is downright nasty. Does someone who has money deserve to get thrown off a chair lift then ?

Keilninnock I CHOSE to go on holiday to a lake/mountain location in France, and I CHOSE to go on a family cycle ride around the stunning lake we were camping at. I fell off the bike and had a nasty accident when the bike I hired broke while riding it (which involved falling down a rock face) that resulted in hospitalisation and the last couple of days of our holiday ruined as I was in pain and immobile.

Did I deserve that accident then, because I'm not homeless/living in abject poverty/< insert any number of awful situations here >

If it helps with your judgment, I HAVE been homeless, I have suffered abject poverty (just a couple of my personal tragedies in life) and that cheapo camping holiday was a huge privilege for us as we'd finally got safe on our feet financially and decided to treat ourselves and our DC to a weeks camping holiday...the first holiday in donkey's years.

Am I more deserving of your sympathy because of my 'tragic' backstory, or am I still undeserving because it was a privileged choice of mine to go on holiday and hire a bike?

It is possible to feel and express sympathy in more than one situation at any one time. Being privileged in having some choices doesn't mean those individuals should be eliminated from sympathy when a bad thing happens to them.

Pffft. Presumably keilninnock never crosses a road, gets in a car, or takes any other risk. Let he who is without sin and all that...

The thing that terrified me most about this incident is the thought that oftentimes on chair lifts they have a ski-school feeder queue. So a random child is added to each chair. I feel terrified to be 'responsible' for the child in a regular ride (They are often tiny and don't speak the same language). Imagine in this situation where you might have to drop said child off in an emergency situation. It almost makes me too anxious to ski, especially as I'd most probably have my own kids to worry about too.

The footage is horrifying.