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So we came out of mountain restaurant on saturday:
"Some bug has taken my poles!"
My wife was NOT pleased...her nice poles were gone, they were hung on her skis, and left in their place were some crappy rental poles with a No.1. sticker.
Bollox!
Anyway later that afternoon when coming down the stairs from the cable car my teenage daughter spots the poles, or were they? My wife spots that the guy has crappy rental skis with a No.1. sticker...but her nice poles.
They confront him in a subtle way:
"Oh Hi, did we see you in Au Mayen at lunch?"
"Er yes, I was there"
"Well then it looks like you have my poles, because these are yours, I'm sure you made an honest mistake" (Yea, sure you did!)
The guy is with his mates, they start laughing, he makes some excuse about not having noticed and hands them over.
Scumbag!
I wasn't there...in retrospect they handled it a lot better than I would have!
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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rungsp, Sickens me, not what skiing is all about but hearing a lot more of it this year 
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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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nothing a good head-butt wouldnt sort out
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barry, All sounds great till you throw in his mates, and skis and the inability to move anywhere fast in skis boots... 
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if you seem mental enough, generally the mates will leave it!
had something similar a couple of years ago except with my skis! think it was a genuine mistake though my skis were white and his rentals were feckin blue - he almost got a slap, but as he had his 5 year old son in tow i thought it best to show some restraint (plus he was a big buggger - it would've been touch and go...!)
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A quick kick to the b4lls(  ) usually works in this case
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As a complete contrast to this, in Serre Che the other week my mate and I took a chairlift up to the top then had a leisurely ski down to Villeneuve. As we ate our lunch there, my mate realised his rucksack wasn't on his back  So we got the lift back up to the top and skied back down to Chantemerle. Said rucksack was on the ground exactly where he'd left it, complete with SLR etc inside, and this was at least two hours later. Faith in humanity restored!
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Pity he didn't fall out the window during some tomfoolery 
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Am I missing something ? If he had rental poles he would be returning poles to the shop surely ?
I suspect it could be laziness or a mistake, rather than stealing.
Ultraviolence might be slightly over the top in this instance.
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Latchigo, Shops are not concerned with poles. Presuming he wasn't flying he may well have got himself a lovely pair of poles for free.
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Maybe he was starting with the poles and then going to get some skis?
A swift kick to the nuts is the way to deal with this type of skier followed by a secong kick to the nuts for good measure 
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You know it makes sense.
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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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Latchigo, no way on earth could you mix up the rental crap bent poles, rubbish grips, bit of string for a strap with her ergo-grips, composite poles, breakaway straps.
Much more likely he was going to say "oops" to the renatal shop, pay their CHF 40 fee or whatever and walk off with her expensive poles in his luggage.
He was caught, he knew he was caught.
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Poster: A snowHead
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What nationality was he?
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DB, brit.
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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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| Ordhan wrote: |
| ... some ski shops where setaling there own skis ... |
| rungsp wrote: |
| ... "oops" to the renatal shop ... |
Things have obviously changed since I worked in a ski shop. We never had setaling and renatal in my day.
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I always cable lock my skis and poles to the ski stand. A friend had exactly the same experience as Snowy's friend, the ski hire place telling him to take someone elses, a bit like a DVD player on a council estate.
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Having had the pleasure of meeting Mrs rungsp yesterday, she didn't strike me as the type to offer anyone out!
I think that this approach of being humiliated by a lady out skiing with her daughter and being made to look like a thieving scrote in the process in front of his mates probably caused him more pain than a quick slap would have done. Imagine the p*ss taking he'll have to put up with now
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JP, As I read this I also thought about locking up the poles with the skis. However, I think it could be difficult to find of way of securing poles - my handle loops - as I'm sure many must have, have buckles on them and could be undone and my baskets are 'solid' without a window frame pattern in them.
The fact that her poles hooked onto her skis had been replaced with someone elses poles leads me to think that there was a touch of deliberate about the swap. I think Mrs Rungsp did brilliant and in her situation I'd have done exactly the same thing. Mind you that's one thing about having bright pink poles, with a few exceptions at least 1/2 the skiing population probably wouldn't be seen dead skiing round with them in the same way Mrs Rungsp's were, so that's 50% of the thieves discounted for starters.
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Oops double post - how did that happen?
Last edited by Then you can post your own questions or snow reports... on Mon 10-03-08 19:43; edited 1 time in total
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Megamum,
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I think Mrs Rungsp did brilliant and in her situation I'd have done exactly the same thing.
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I would like to think that I would have reacted in the same way, but being a bloke I would probably have dealt with it badly. 
With regards to the securing of poles, yes the loops can be undone but usually thieves will not want to spend time undoing stuff and will move onto the next easier to steal set.
P.S. Got the message the first time.
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You're allowed to take ski poles and umbrellas into restaurants.
Skis are definitely best locked up - I've had a pair of brand new K2s stolen, with no insurance pay-out.
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David Goldsmith,
You ski with an umbrella?
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Of course I ski with a bloody umbrella if it's raining
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Is there any reason why recreational ski poles shouldn't incorporate a brolly?
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No reason at all. I've been asking that question for years.
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You know it makes sense.
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richmond, I want to be able to buy a ski pole with a seat on it like a shooting stick to take the strain in long lift queues.
Seat on one, brolly in t'other?
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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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And a little flask for a warming dram in both.
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Poster: A snowHead
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richmond, I'll just pop to the Patent Office.
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| David Goldsmith wrote: |
| Of course I ski with a bloody umbrella if it's raining |
I was forgetting you spent some of your youth skiing Scotland.
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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JP, it may be too late. In fact, it is.
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I think David Goldsmith may have a point about umbrellas:
As an avalanche survival tool what could be better, open the brolly and hold on tight.....as we all know they are just as good as a parachute (100s of Tom & Gerry, Roadrunner etc cartoons prove this).
With the brolly you will simply float to the surface.
No need for the pesky avalanche cord David...a brolly is the answer.
Mind you....I flippin hate those types who ski around with big golf umbrellas....what is wrong with a standard size anyway?
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| Megamum wrote: |
JP, However, I think it could be difficult to find of way of securing poles - my handle loops - as I'm sure many must have, have buckles on them and could be undone and my baskets are 'solid' without a window frame pattern in them.
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We just tie a ski lock cable round everything. The determined tea-leaf would be able to snip it off or un-thread the poles, or with a lot of jiggling, get the skis. But hopefully well before then they would have moved on to un-secured skis.
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I have always admired this umbrella shop in New Oxford Street
http://www.james-smith.co.uk/
I do not think they make ski umbrellas.
A sword umbrella would be useful for fending off gypsies and asylum seekers, but sadly they no longer make them,though sword sticks are advertised in the window.
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Are you on the left or right David Goldsmith?
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Suppliers of brollies to Richmond, as it happens. They do make weighted walking sticks (and possibly brollies) for biffing evildoers, I think.
Last edited by Ski the Net with snowHeads  on Mon 10-03-08 17:29; edited 1 time in total
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