tldr; Man paralysed at Bachelor on a 'badly designed' jump is trying to sue Mt Bachelor and it has reached the Supreme Court.
Dec 4 2014 11:33AM
Turkeltonfuckin brutal, is there any status on him? holy
This went down at my home resort. Dude was fine somehow.
Dec 4 2014 1:24PM
Gaper_DestroyerIf the design of the jump was flawed then this person should deserve a settlement. That being said, if the conditions were shitty or the jump was ungroomed then its ridiculous to sue the mountain. This one time I was doing a first run warm-up lap, and I was just hitting the features without checking them first, I went to three a jump and the lip was really icy. I lost balance on the take off and broke my wrist when I landed on it. That was nobodies fault but my own. If the jump was some death trap with zero landing that took you straight to flat, then I seem it reasonable to come to a settlement because the resort designed something that was unsafe. When I'm hitting a feature I find comfort in the fact that somebody who knew what they were doing designed it in a way that makes the feature hittable. Some kicker to flat is not a well-designed jump. I believe that resorts should implement a separate waiver for park, because the terrain park contains MAN MADE terrain which is designed. Unlike the terrain commonly found in the back country.
Sweet bump bro.
And NO...