For licensing/usage please contact: licensing(at)jukinmediadotcom We saw a little kid hanging from a lift at Mt. Rose ski resort so we turned on our helmet cams and helped out.
When the kid lands and a bunch of the strangers pat him and say “good job”, that was some good shit. I’m sure the kid was still incredibly traumatized/embarrassed after landing so it was a nice gesture to try and ease the tension of the situation
It's amazing until you realize they were coaxing him to jump while the ski patrol was preparing a rope to get him down. half of the adults in that crowd were making things worse.
It's easy for the little guys to fall off. One, because they're uncoordinated little kids. Two, because they cannot sit all the way back in their seat with their knees bent. They have to keep their legs completely straight. The weight of their skis/boards makes their knees want to bend and move them forward.
the whole time I was thinking that those skis on the kid's feet could really fuck somebody up. I love how they cheered at the end having no idea about his condition. Kid could've broken his spine and they instantly scream "wooohoooo yeah buddy!"
That pad was a life saver, and whoever thought of the idea genius. That falling kid could have seriously injured someone if any part of him landed on someones head. I had a giant water balloon thrown on me from half that height and half that weight onto my head and had neck pains for two weeks.
+ryszart kalirz Its a little kid. He couldve sneezed and slipped off. Little kids are squirmy and they are stupid. Its easy for them to do something stupid before anyone can stop them.
I'm so proud of you guys for helping because I saw lots of skiers and snowboarders pass a lot so I would like to thank you and did the kid have any injuries?
Can everyone please remember that this right here is how a vast majority of human beings behave? Whenever you think there are so many terrible people or that people are going to destroy the world, you’re just listening to the loud minority… most people are good and will come together when push comes to shove
I agree. Most people will help a stranger in trouble if all it costs them is a bit of time, it's human instinct. Where people should really be praised is when the put themselves in danger to rescue a stranger. For example, would you help an injured stranger on the side of the road? probably. Would you run into a burning building to save a stranger someone? Probably not.
You know, these kind of clips give me faith in humanity. Like, that’s what it’s all about. Coming together, no matter political standpoint/ race or anything, to safe a kid.
lmao i noticed that too, he so badly wanted the jump, i kept thinking every second that kid holds on is more people below, surrounding people could have taken off their jackets
Exactly!! I'm sitting here watching and there is two adults sitting on the chair. This kid is probably only 80 pounds soaking wet but they still just let him fall.
I witnessed a very similar scenario when a kid tried ( and failed ) to get off a midway unloading ramp at Donner back in the 90s, unfortunately he was by himself and let go pretty quick before enough people could get together and help, fell about 20 feet, as I recall he wasnt too badly hurt due to it being really slushy spring conditions
my friend and i were snowboarding and the same thing happend but noone exept me and him were on the lift at the time. after he fell he had to be on a wheel chairt for 4 years, and now being the 4th year i took him snowboarding and he started crying. i asked him why is he crying and he said that it brings him back good and bad memories.
+Matthew Maltzoff Some of these lifts have very slippery vinyl seats. As an adult I have slipped when the seat was icy but thankfully I'm not small enough to slip under the bars. Some lifts now have child safety extensions on the bar to help prevent these kinds of scenarios.
Robert K Yeah it probably is, i have been on many chair lifts like that, everything from old small and slow three seat lifts to big and fast ten seat lifts. Some chair lifts do have lack of protection, i guess if you are a small kid that could happen
The best thing to do in cases like this is to grab hold of kid as good as possible and keep going til they reach somewhere safer. I've always wondered why the resort don't have a fire net or bubble that can inflate to jump on. I'm afraid of heights and to be honest some lifts im scared of more than the runs.
My 8 year old cousin fell off of a lift in Steamboat a couple seasons ago, luckily he wasn’t too high up (he had just passed the first stop) so he didn’t suffer any serious injuries,though he did bring the guy next to him down with him, who I believe broke his leg and wasn’t able to ski for the rest of the year..
Yeah okay but then the anti-rollback has to be disabled and if the brake fails or isn't applied for long enough, those chairs and everyone in them become projectiles as the chairs come around the bullwheel at insane speeds.
Sphinx Offsa I once heard of that thing called ''punctuation'' where if at the end of a sentence you have a word in quotation marks you put the period inside of the quotation marks!
sbecktacular I'm with Sphinx Offsa ... bad grammar just shows how stupid and illiterate people are these days, that's all. But if you're proud of that, then go for it.
TheKingOfChem I'm pretty sure there is. Unless this was a European resort there probably was. I have been to resorts all around the world and most have a bar but on some European resorts there aren't.
GBThoughts Actually up over at Stevens Pass in Washington they don't have bars. Which is why I hate going on those lifts (cause I'm like crazy scared of heights)
Check 1:50. See how close they are to the base? Do they not have a reverse feature on chair lift? The kid is holding pretty tight. Think he woulda kept holding on as they back him into the launch house
ARIES Gaming Channel the parents are probably welfare whales who eat McDonald's everyday and what their kid to die so the ski lift place is incharge for insurance
ARIES Gaming Channel uhhh all that gear which is probably damp is heavy plus the kids weight. in addition balancing and trying to lean forward means they have to hang on with one hand and not fall off themselves. .. I mean pretty hard
DO NOT MOVE THE KID ---- those guys need to calm the fuck down. I bet they lined up in reception after that for a medal or purple heart or something like they rescued hostages in a battlefield. This made me laugh
jim bim You don't move people when they have possible back and neck injuries, it's a pretty common practice. You can cause more damage amne possibly paralyze people. (I'm an emt)
THANK YOU!!! thank you to those who said not to move him!!!! From a first responder please NEVER MOVE SOMEONE WHO HAS FALLEN FROM A HIGHT OR COULD POSSIBLY HAVE ANY INJURY TO THEIR BACK/SPINE only move them if they are an immediate danger. If you move them with a spinal/back injury, you’re risking paralyzing them. If you do not need to touch them then DONT, wait for someone has proper medical experience. If you want to help, keep their head immobilized, and even if they say they feel fine they could have an injury. They don’t feel yet and moving can make it worse. My best friend broke her back surfing and had no idea for two days Thankfully she’s OK.
The fact that a small kid was able to hold thierselves up for a little more then 3 minutes is more shocking then the kid almost falling of in the start
I know im 8 years late, but it's baffeling how incredibly stupid this comment is. He is hanging by both of his hands using all the power he's got. How in the flying fuck do u think he would "drop his skis first"? Is he supposed to use force with his mind like a jedi, or just unclip them mid air while he is falling?
Sodiumreactor I have skied for my whole life (30+ years) and this is nothing. Your acting like this incident was on purpose. It ws not. These people were hero's. You shouldn't be so critical of something you don't know about. The child wore full protection and even if the kid fell to the snow, minor injuries would be present.
This is not skiing. This is dropping a kid who is in NO IMMEDIATE danger off of a ski lift. Period. It was a bad decision. Unless there is something I dont know about the ski lift. Was it breaking apart? Was the kid in need of urgent medical attention?
That was the dumbest solution I think they could have come up with. First of all, the way they locked their arms together at the beginning, the kid would have gone right through, hit the ground anyway, and broken a bunch of their arms in the process. Second, with the amount of time it took them to get him down, they could have just left the lift going and stopped just short of the platform where his feet would probably just touch the ground anyway. It's nice that people came together to help but people really need some training in common sense.
It was A solution considering the kid was just about to fall anyway. And any liftie who kept the lift going till the kid got to the other end would have been fired, cos the kid would have fallen before then anyway most likely. And - LAWSUIT.
emjaynie2 I'm a lifty and we are told to not stop or slow the lift so the kid can atleast have a damn chance of getting to the top station. Every resort has a disclaimer preventing law suits because of how inherently dangerous ski resorts are. So please just shut up
Nah the lift wasn't even halfway up the mountain, and besides that lift takes so long to get up to the top that he would've fallen from a greater hight further up the mountain
