Naked Dude Dangling from Ski Lift

Update: 01/13/09 – My business partner sent me a link this morning to this game that has already been created to go along w/ the naked ski life dude.  Could it be that this guy is destined to become an Internet Legend alongside the Star Wars Kid and the Grape Stomping Lady?

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Okay, this is one that I couldn’t resist posting. I have no idea as to how such a thing could happen, but apparently this dude somehow got tangled up in the ski lift and somehow slid out of the seat and was dangling upside down. This part I can pretty much follow, in fact I have seen it happen before, but the part where they lose me is why in the world was he naked? There is a lot of speculation as to how this happened but honestly I don’t think anyone really knows for sure. Here is one report:

A man skiing with his son at a ritzy Vail resort ended up upside down, hanging from a chairlift without any pants for all the ski hill to see. Fortunately for us, someone had a camera to capture the whole naked bum over Colorado event. The bizarre incident happened when the chairlift’s fold-down seat malfunctioned, allowing the man to slip through a gap in the lift. Luckily (or unluckily, depending on your perspective), the man’s right ski jammed, leaving him dangling and somehow without pants or underwear. Talk about penis-icicles! Brrrrr.

And here is another report that I ran across linked from the first explanation:

JANUARY 6–In a bizarre incident that will surely lead to litigation (or an out-of-court settlement), a skier at Colorado’s ritzy Vail resort was left dangling upside down and pantsless from a chairlift last Thursday morning. The January 1 mishap apparently occurred after the male skier, 48, and a child boarded a high-speed lift in Vail’s Blue Sky Basin. It appears that the chairlift’s fold-down seat was somehow not in the lowered position, which caused the man to partially fall through the resulting gap. His right ski got jammed in the ascending chairlift, and that kept him upended since his boot never dislodged from its binding. As seen in the photos (which were snapped by fellow skiers), the Skyline Express lift was stopped shortly after the pair’s botched boarding resulted in the man dangling from the lift. The exposed skier was stuck for about 15 minutes before Vail personnel backed the lift up and successfully dislodged the unidentified man from the four-seat chair. The images were taken by Marty Odom (who can be reached at [email protected] if you’re interested in licensing the photos). In a statement released this afternoon, Vail Resorts, which operates the ski area, reported that the skier was not injured after being “suspended for approximately seven minutes.” The press release did not explain how the mishap occurred, only that “the man was caught on the chair.”

Oh and of course, the photos. Click on the thumbnails below for a larger view of the whole ordeal. I would love to see an interview with this dude to hear him tell his side of the story.