Family accused of stealing skis at Mt. Bachelor

And the beer
Best not fuck with the price of nachos though...

I wonder if the receipt has the serial numbers on it.

Now it is $766,000???!!!

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Originally Posted by johngenx

Okay, I completely agree the family was wronged, and should get something. BUT A HUNNERT AND TWENTY NINE GRAND? Fuck off. A free family season's pass? That sounds good, and maybe some meal vouchers in there too. They needed counseling because of this? Holy fuck, these people should just walk onto the freeway and kill themselves because they're too delicate to live. What sort of fuckin' country you guys have down there when every time anyone at all is even slightly fucked over they figure they deserve a lottery win?

The hill is completely in the wrong, yup, but the payout should match the ACTUAL "pain and suffering" involved. Having to hang out and wait for the cops isn't like you spent a year in the gulag for fuck sakes.

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I'm leaning towards this sentiment.

the ol' blame the victim play, eh?

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Originally Posted by johngenx

Okay, I completely agree the family was wronged, and should get something. BUT A HUNNERT AND TWENTY NINE GRAND? Fuck off. A free family season's pass? That sounds good, and maybe some meal vouchers in there too. They needed counseling because of this? Holy fuck, these people should just walk onto the freeway and kill themselves because they're too delicate to live. What sort of fuckin' country you guys have down there when every time anyone at all is even slightly fucked over they figure they deserve a lottery win?

The hill is completely in the wrong, yup, but the payout should match the ACTUAL "pain and suffering" involved. Having to hang out and wait for the cops isn't like you spent a year in the gulag for fuck sakes.

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you're obviously not very familiar with the American Legal System. you always shoot for the stars! 'MERICA!

Like I said before, demand in the complaint is fairly irrelevant. Claim's worth $50-75k, IMO--based on the facts we have. POWDR should take an offer in that range and run. Once you start taking depositions, serving motions, etc. shit gets way more expensive than that. Fast.

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Originally Posted by DIYSteve

the ol' blame the victim play, eh?

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Nah, not at all. I totally feel for them and it certainly sucks given the information provided. Totally sucks. I just have a hard time thinking this situation is worthy of that kind compensation/damages. Easy to sit back and armchair, but here we are. Too bad the mountain didn't make it right straight away. Now everybody loses.

Oh, okay. Your claim to be "leaning towards [the] sentiment . . . 'Holy fuck, these people should just walk onto the freeway and kill themselves because they're too delicate to live'" threw me off a bit.

If I was the family, I'd forget the cash and ask for lifetime family passes to all Powdr resorts (not sure which ones they own). Would be no harm to the corp and a big benefit to a family of skiers. Win/Win

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Originally Posted by DIYSteve

Oh, okay. Your claim to be "leaning towards [the] sentiment . . . 'Holy fuck, these people should just walk onto the freeway and kill themselves because they're too delicate to live'" threw me off

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HA HA!!! No way, not at all. Gawd, now I feel like a turd! I wouldn't wish that on anybody. I was merely speaking to the settlement/damages aspect of the situation. I'll go back to my corner. Sitting in meetings in San Diego hoping it's snowing there back home.

Charlie Sheen and Powdr. I see what you did there.

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Originally Posted by old goat

The other side of the story--the kid was probably giving them attitude, not respectful of authority, maybe long hair, face gaiter, tall T, pants around his knees, obviously guilty of something. In other words, a normal teenager.

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you really seem to enjoy making presumptions about other people to validate your opinion. No where in the articles I read was the boys age given.

throwing in a big number for punitive damages is a scare tactic--since punitive damages aren't covered by insurance. This will settle for a lot less then 129K IMO as a TV trained lawyer (and as someone who's been sued).

Bachelor failed Risk Management 101 on this. Obviously management at the resort should have handled better at the time, and failing that corporate should have been all over the family trying to make it right. They had the opportunity to make the family feel better about Mt Bachelor than they did before the incident and blew it.

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Originally Posted by flowing alpy

I’d think they’d resolve this just to end the possible pr nightmare. if one of the fake news outlets picks up on this, it could go viral and not in a Taylor Swift way but more Charlie Sheen.

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Originally Posted by old goat

Bachelor failed Risk Management 101 on this. Obviously management at the resort should have handled better at the time, and failing that corporate should have been all over the family trying to make it right. They had the opportunity to make the family feel better about Mt Bachelor than they did before the incident and blew it.

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Yep. Bad PR and attorneys fees will drive a mid- to upper-five figure settlement, IMO.

And there is the problem. Remember when they forgot to pay the rent @ PCMR. Just another fail for Powdr Corp. management.

In the tradition of bumping a train wreck, is anyone down for a Bachelor specific conditions and meet up thread?

It’s been soft, starting to barely fill in, bad visibility and high wind on and off but mostly on.

Lots of folks getting after it! Who’s been up and who’s planning on coming?

any word on final resolution of this shitshow?

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Originally Posted by lowsparkco

In the tradition of bumping a train wreck, is anyone down for a Bachelor specific conditions and meet up thread?

It’s been soft, starting to barely fill in, bad visibility and high wind on and off but mostly on.

Lots of folks getting after it! Who’s been up and who’s planning on coming?

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https://www.tetongravity.com/forums/...-Winter-Season

^^^ @lowsparkco, There’s only like five MtB locals posting here. Would get pretty boring, even with Tap’s photo work

I hear you are skiing with some Cranky Old Fucks(tm) tomorrow?

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^^^ @lowsparkco, There’s only like five MtB locals posting here. Would get pretty boring, even with Tap’s photo work

I hear you are skiing with some Cranky Old Fucks(tm) tomorrow?

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If this goes away I won’t be too bothered. But, traffic has been pretty slow on the TGRs so who knows? Hopefully it will inspire me to take a few photos myself.

No word on how this suit ended or if it has ended, although I will certainly inquire on the dl.

I’m in and out this week, but I’m going to try my best and will definitely meet up more as we get past Xmas.

I just get some Meadows resentment in the Orygun thread. I’ve only been up there once and it was heavenly.

Apologies are cheap. Any GM with a lick of sense would have at least given the kid a free season pass for the following year and almost certainly the problem would have gone away.

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Gottlieb contacted Gear Peddler and the store took a photo of their records documenting the sale of the skis from Mt. Bachelor to Gear Peddler, but Mt. Bachelor employees refused to view the picture or speak to Gear Peddler employees on the phone, according to the suit.

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The allegation that the employees steadfastedly refused to even look at potentially relevant documentation is interesting.

I wonder which former shop employee stole the skis and sold them to the used gear shop?

There's no such thing as friends on Powdr Corp days

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Originally Posted by Sutter

I wonder which former shop employee stole the skis and sold them to the used gear shop?

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Thinking same.

More Powdr Corp days in the forecast… bless Ullr! Who’s getting it? Who wants to get it? Who can’t stop getting it?

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Today was so good. Supposedly some ropes are dropping tomorrow?!?…. I guess we’ll see

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Originally Posted by jonesy

And there is the problem. Remember when they forgot to pay the rent @ PCMR. Just another fail for Powdr Corp. management.

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I remember it every single day I ski at what was a friendly resort and now is a pay to park, pay 3x as much for a piece of pizza, watch out for the yellow jackets resort. Wish the dumb bitch hadn’t left the bill in the stack on her desk for three weeks. Wish we still had the failings of Powder over Vail.

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True story. Vail has damn near ruined the town.

My best yellow jacket story.

I was getting on payday and slipped into the gate next to the heel side of a yellow jacket. We get to load and he sits on my lap. Loses his fucking mind. Screaming at me for being a line skipping douche etc…ski patrol and the lifty escorted him out of line and asked for his jacket to the applause of the assembled locals.

Fuck vail


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I’ve worked for a few ski corporations and it’s certainly relative.

Pretty good interview of John Cummings founder of Powdr….

https://share.transistor.fm/s/24c7de9e

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