Originally Posted by
StuntCok
Japanese "news" is dramatised crap and I never watch it but last night I was coincidently buying a new mobile phone and while while waiting in the shop, there was a "special" on the TV entitled Gelende SOS highlighting the terrible dangers of skiing OB. There was footage of some gaper snowboarder on about 15 degree pitch in some brush. When he catches an edge at about 5km/h and face plants the announcer cries "is he OK?!". When they interviewed the outlaws who skied outside the ropes, their faces were masked by a digitised mosaic. It was pathetic but it highlights the safety hysteria here in Japan. Scare them into doing what they are told.