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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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halfhand, or a mod - if you blitz the 1st url in square brackets it will become a working link. And the second can then also go.
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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still not sure if I've done it correctly but go to MSN home page you'll get it. Anyway seems to me to be another of these sweeping generalisations about us brits along with nation of shopkeepers, drunks on the piste etc..
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Here's the link. I think we have already chewed over a similar report.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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Have any Snowheads actually had skis stolen. No one I know actually seems to have had them taken. It amazes me when I see the number of unattended skis outside mountain cafes etc. Skiers must be an honest bunch!
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lynne123, admin famously had his Pocket Rocket's stolen, it lead to much distress and a subsequent glut of skis as he overcompensated for his loss, jonpim had is hire Saloman Screams nicked from outside a restaurant in VT whilst I was with him. So I'd say it wasn't uncommon...
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We lost 2 pairs in 1 week in Val d'Isere 2 years ago, but both accidental. I feel strangely comforted as my "new" skis gradually date and look more like a pair of hire skis
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Had my rental Crossmax 10s stolen in Les Arcs three years ago from a mountain restaurant.
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I had a pair of skis stolen and on the same day another of our group had his stolen from a completely different area of the same resort (Passo Tonale). They were both hire skis from the same shop. We had to pay for both pairs - slightly suspicious given that the rep said they had never heard of any skis being stolen before!
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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Never lost skis (but then we always split them AND lock them, so there are always plenty of easier targets around) but have had poles taken once.
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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What's the issue - I don't understand why people simply don't lock their skis - & it would be a tidy earner for ski shops to sell renter a lock at Euro15 a week. Still keep on not locking them folks - makes mine look far less attractive!
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I'm gonna stick some car spray paint on mine as old style B2's look too alike - ppl keep grabbing them hehehe
Last edited by So if you're just off somewhere snowy come back and post a snow report of your own and we'll all love you very much  on Tue 13-12-05 18:12; edited 1 time in total
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You know it makes sense.
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Someone was once trying to click into my crappy rented skis at L'Arpette restaurant above Belle Plagne. Simple case of mistaken identity - he had the same model from the same shop. His were a few metres away. But with bindings set for his bigger boot size.
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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Someone once tried to take mine by accident - she hadn't noticed that mine were about 40 cms longer than hers!!!! (really was an accident). 
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Poster: A snowHead
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I had an pair nicked out of the garage of a chalet in Tignes just after arriving, weren't anything special. Went down later in the evenign to get the ski tech to wax and edge them and took a while to discover they'd gone as I'd had a few beers by that time and wondered whether I'd just lost them, but it turned out someone else had had a pair stolen at the same time. This would have been 2001 I reckon. Left the poles the cheeky b**d's. Managed to claim on insurance. Ever since swap a ski at resturants etc.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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Whenever we rent we stick name labels in dayglow orange on the skis....stops people wandering off with them by mistake. They get quite embarassed when you point out the huge glowing sticker....
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I had two pairs of skis stolen.... from under my bed.... in a house burglary 
Didn't have house insurance - so im down £600...
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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I had some nicked outside cafe in Alpe D'Huez 2 years ago, police not interested, rep said pretty common in holidays as Par*si*ns visit the resort to 'stock up' on equipment !!
That's one advantage of my now using snowblades, I take them with me!
Always get my kid's to lock their ski's to something immovable (when not using them).
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some choice quotes in that article:
"British insurers paying out more readily." - I'd hate to be a European - in my experience insurers will do everything possible to wriggle out of paying.
besides, most insurance firms are either subsidiaries of international firms, or re-insured by bigger/international firms, so the risks will be similar.
"It is also thought that the increase in theft claims on a Friday may result from a deliberate ploy by criminal gangs. "
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"It is the British who are mainly talked about since they contribute to such a high proportion of tourists in the French Ski resorts"
... so what they're _really_ saying is: "we don't have any actual statistical evidence so we'll make up a story based on assumptions". The last quote may in fact be quite reasonable - if Brits make up the majority of tourists, one would expect them to make up the majority of claimants, unless we were unusually lucky!
Quality MSN journalism, not!
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The common denominators here appear to be Fr*nce and the Fr*nch. In over 30 years I've never had skis stolen (poles once but the thief skiied up to me later in the day to ask directions and I decked him softly). I normally only go to Austria or North America, I rarely bother to split pairs and this is all making me wonder if insurance companies should load premiums for people going to the aforementioned Gallic place.
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| (poles once but the thief skiied up to me later in the day to ask directions and I decked him softly) |
How could you tell they were yours though, and not an identical pair? 
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mark_s, Graphite poles at a time when v few people had them and I had non-standard straps. Anyway, after the melee and some torture, he admitted that he couldn't find his poles so he took them off the skis next to his in the ski room (mine).
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