 Poster: A snowHead
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Poor lad, get well soon
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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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Interesting. As they know the age of the guilty party presumably he has been identified. Did he suffer any consequences ?
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As they know the age of the guilty party
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Not sure you can call out 'guilty party' without knowoing a bit more about what happend.
Sounds like a bad injury, all the best to Brook.
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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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As they know the age of the guilty party
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Not sure you can call out 'guilty party' without knowoing a bit more about what happend.
Sounds like a bad injury, all the best to Brook. |
Well the report did say 'was knocked unconscious by a 27-year-old man who lost control and ploughed into him at high speed'
It sounds like the 27 year old was the 'guilty party' or did they make that up?
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Mr Marmot, not necessarily. Even if he did crash into that kid "at high speed", it's not necessarily his fault. There's way too little info to blame that guy just like this.
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Terrible. I really feel for the boy and his family.
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Good news for Brook and his family. Hoping he makes a full recovery after this.
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Does anyone know if the little chap was wearing a helmet or not? What a worry for his family.
Struggling to understand how someone can lose control on a section of piste where there are young beginners......
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oops, just posted on the other thread...hadnt seen this one.
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Struggling to understand how someone can lose control on a section of piste where there are young beginners......
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I've seen it done, but it doesn't usually end in such horror. We had friends whose son had similar sounding injuries in a hit and run road accident. It took a long time, but he made a complete recovery and has now realised his boyhood ambition to be a railway engineer. He couldn't speak properly, or move properly, or remember stuff, for quite a time but after anxious months it ended well. Hoping the same for this poor little guy.
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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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| Mr Marmot, not necessarily. Even if he did crash into that kid "at high speed", it's not necessarily his fault. There's way too little info to blame that guy just like this. |
Agreed, primoz. But, then again, it may have been his fault. There is far too little info to decide that he shouldn't be described as the 'guilty' party.
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| Mr Marmot wrote: |
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| Mr Marmot, not necessarily. Even if he did crash into that kid "at high speed", it's not necessarily his fault. There's way too little info to blame that guy just like this. |
Agreed, primoz. But, then again, it may have been his fault. There is far too little info to decide that he shouldn't be described as the 'guilty' party. |
While this is not a Court of Law there is a general presumption of innocence until proven otherwise.
My 5 year old son was knocked over at Nevis Range a few weeks ago by an out of control skier. Thankfully, it was only a glancing blow and all that happened was my son ended up on his bum but if it was another 12 inches further over it could have been much worse.
The out of control skier was about 12 years old and wasn't hugely competent (i'd seen his wipeout a few times) but was skiiing without a helmet and on very long skis (from the look of them they were probably hand-me-downs).
In this instances I would say he was the guilty party as he was consistently skiing out of control. But that view is based on hard evidence, not supposition.
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You know it makes sense.
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| alyefs wrote: |
| Struggling to understand how someone can lose control on a section of piste where there are young beginners...... |
Maybe they were a beginner too and lost control and panicked. So technically their fault, but not necessarily due to recklessness, just inexperience
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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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| primoz wrote: |
| Mr Marmot, not necessarily. Even if he did crash into that kid "at high speed", it's not necessarily his fault. There's way too little info to blame that guy just like this. |
Agreed, primoz. But, then again, it may have been his fault. There is far too little info to decide that he shouldn't be described as the 'guilty' party. |
While this is not a Court of Law there is a general presumption of innocence until proven otherwise.
My 5 year old son was knocked over at Nevis Range a few weeks ago by an out of control skier. Thankfully, it was only a glancing blow and all that happened was my son ended up on his bum but if it was another 12 inches further over it could have been much worse.
The out of control skier was about 12 years old and wasn't hugely competent (i'd seen his wipeout a few times) but was skiiing without a helmet and on very long skis (from the look of them they were probably hand-me-downs).
In this instances I would say he was the guilty party as he was consistently skiing out of control. But that view is based on hard evidence, not supposition. |
So the report in question was based on supposition and not on 'hard evidence' from someone who saw what happened? Again we don't know. So it really doesn't matter if someone on this forum describes the person reported as being 'out-of-control' and 'ploughing' into the victim as the 'guilty party' in the context of how the incident was reported.
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