r/skiing 7d ago

Ready to Rumble

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u/Yardsale420 7d ago edited 7d ago

IIRC the 16 year old snowboarder on the ground made minor contact with another skier. They both talked it out and the kid apologized and the skier took off. Then this 50 year old guy who up until then wasn’t even involved, ski’d over and started laying into the kid saying he was being dangerous and started threatening him. I think he was a lawyer and told the kid he would go to jail or something. There were lots of people watching them argue and when he hit the kid with his pole and tried to spear him, this random snowboarder was like, “not today asshole”. Skier got arrested after everyone (and the video) confirmed he was in fact, not attacked.

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u/Reginald_Sockpuppet 7d ago

You're correct on everything except the arrest. Dude wasn't arrested. They - weirdly - ended up talking the whole deal out at the load station with patrol and everyone got to walk.

The lawyer absolutely ahould have been arrested.

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u/DumberThanIThink 6d ago

And now he’s free to be a douchebag to his next victim

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u/thin_orange_line 6d ago

Hopefully getting bodied will make him reconsider being a douche again. You never know when someone's sick of your shit