Storytime - a guy get kicked off the Snowbird tram for throwing a mask tantrum.

r00kie

I thought you was done.

skiindianaSomeone called me a bitch for not wearing masks in a thread where I literally said I wear masks when required...

r00kieSomeone called you a naughty word? You wanna talk about it?

skiindianaLook man, like I said. Keep telling people what to do. It's a great look. I'm sure you won't ski at all, because traveling in April is bad, but traveling now when there or more cases is good.

Do whatever you want. But just know 50% of this site is a bunch of crying hypocrites. Like I said, I'm done with the COVID stuff.

leprechaunsissyYou seem to have completely misunderstood my intention. I am immensely grateful for every single resort employee who is putting in effort to enforce covid precautions and make resort skiing possible. I’ve been impacted pretty deeply by covid, and I salute those resort employees who are out there making resort skiing possible this winter.

wyld_stallynsYo yo yo yo, don't attack my boy @leprechaunsissy like that. Think you may have taken his sincere message as ficisuous, but really didn't sound like it too me

larilinesignAgainst a backdrop of modern medicine finally relieving the fatigue of pandemic, an armed insurrection being squashed as a new administration takes power, the wave of old and evil crashing down through the court of public opinion, and an 18" dump on a Saturday quenching a snow drought in the Rockies... a sense of inevitable victory prevailed throughout the Ikon hoard.

We came in full force, riding an energy of optimism that was lost almost a year ago. Young and old, blue and red, rich and poor, core and kook - united together with a single objective: to get to the front of this massive tram line.

I saw him right there in front of me. He had pink Black Crows mounted with Pivots in one hand, a 16 oz can of PBR in the other.

He had cracked his beer at the end of the line and nursed it for an hour and a half till the front. No mask the whole time, cause he was drinking.

The inevidable standoff came at the pass scanning gates. The Matriarch of the Tram, a silver fox that's obviously been running the Snowbird Circus for decades, confronted him with the annoyed boredom of someone that has been parroting "A buff is not enough" for months.

With a shit-eating smirk, he took a tiny little sip, right in her face. "Yo it's fine, I'm drinking," he said with the confidence that only a young dumb mediocre white guy can carry.

Perhaps I saw a bit of myself in that tram manager; perhaps I can suck down a can of PBR in seconds and was wondering why he was still drinking that thing; perhaps I just like to stroke the back of chaos...

I yelled, "Put it on!" In a man's voice and turned away so no one knew where it came from. God forbid he tries to fight me and I get kicked out. Like 100 people all went silent and looked at the guy, so he put the mask on.

He immediately took it off when he got on the tram platform and got another warning from some faceless tram platform employee dude.

No matter, the tram was arriving. The 24 of us shuffled in quickly.

As soon as the door closed, he started to take his mask off, and the impatient operator firmly told him to put it back on. The guy turned his back to the operator and shouted a Randy Marsh impression of, "I thought this was America!"

He technically had the mask on, so we departed the lower station. For 30 tense seconds, he babbled to his friends while ignoring the operator who was trying to get his attention. Somewhere in there, to no avail, one of his friends yelled, "Would you just shut the fuck up?!" The only one to stand up to him.

Enough was enough. "THAT'S IT! YOURE OUTTA HERE!" Boomed the operator. He turned that bitch around.

Guy realized he was actually getting kicked off, and bashful asks his homies, "So you guys wanna go home?" A resounding "NO DUDE" from shut-the-fuck-up guy and the rest of his friends.

Utah people are kinda bashful, so they just kinda rolled their eyes in silence. Me however, thats when I just lost it. I was cackling like a hyena! "Ohhhhhhh!!! Worldstaaaaaaar!!!! Yeeeeeeep yeeeeep looooooser!!"

You see, Newschoolers, dreams really do come true. Nothing makes you feel more powerful than witnessing people in Walmart fighting over towels. This was almost better.

They threw him out, with his departing words being, "I'm not even that drunk."

It was a speedy ride to the top. I took a victory lap, surfing victorously over the crest of a New America. It was a sign that the light has arrived to illuminate the darkness. The winds of change have turned, and the mighty ox has arrived with a plow in tow. We have prevailed!

EvanMeyerI really hate being that liftie that has to tell people to do so it’s one thing If the lift line is empty and you can ski right on to the lift fast with it down I probably won’t say anything cause what’s the point but if there’s a crowd and your being a belligerent asshole about it then I’ve got no problem slowing down or stopping your chair and making you look like the asshole that’s holding everyone else up.

skiindianaYeah, apparently following the rules but not thinking they all work, or not thinking making poor people poorer is a good thing makes me a bad person.

But hey, I've come to understand you people have 'won', at least for the time being. Pretend in public to follow whatever and do whatever else in private. You're a hero and people who don't think like you are just ignorant assholes - even though they do exactly the same thing you do...

eheathGo sit on a flag pole.

StaticIs there supposed to be some sort of negative connotation with sticking things up your ass? Because maybe you didn't know, but we don't support homophobia on this website.

**This post was edited on Jan 25th 2021 at 11:51:56am

eheathAre you kidding me? Fuck off.

skiindianaI don't think you can read. I wear a mask at all times required. Do you ever hang out with friends indoors without masks?

skiermanAwwww lil proud boy, don't you get it? Everyone hates you and no one respects your fake news bullshit.

skiindianaStay home stay safe. Keep hospitals from being overwhelmed. Do your part. Stop following the fake news and hanging out with friends. You're selfish.

eheathsucks that you can't go back and delete your posts anymore, gonna be embarrassing to read these posts in a year, they're going to age terribly.

TRVP_ANGELwhat

gvski13What to what?

skiindianaNot really. Most of my posts basically said:

1. Lockdowns are unsustainable and terrible for poor people but great for large corporations and the rich
2. Mask mandates don't seem to work as well as the narrative suggests.

Both have been proven true already.

sorkhrazilI'm imaging this set up.... see it all the time in BCC, 1600gram Black Crows skis and some pivots or griffons, always brings a smile to my face

edaidelete your account nerd

skiindianaStay home save lives man. You clearly don't care about COVID, selfish trump supporter.

sorkhrazilI'm imaging this set up.... see it all the time in BCC, 1600gram Black Crows skis and some pivots or griffons, always brings a smile to my face

KevskiThat was a really well told, entertaining story and I feel like that's uncommon on NS these days. Quality post, thanks for the share!

It was even a good enough story to overpower skiindiana trying to ruin it with his stale bullshit/bait/pivot routine and eheath and co. unfortunately still falling for it every time. Guys, if you really can't help yourselves maybe keep it to the covid thread? We all left that thread for a reason.

ParkRxThe virus is small but the aerosolized droplets the virus is transmitted in are larger and filtered.
The virus cannot survive and be transmitted without these droplets.

koenhelmkeIt’s literally an airborne virus, next your gonna say the trump won the election 😂 idiot

TRVP_ANGELle bump

larilinesignLegend has it that guy is still drinking his beer and won't pull up his mask

DeebieSkeebiesCOVID rules aside and staying safe yadda yadda yadda, The 25-person tram grouping is fucking waaaaack, but the Tram has already been super played in the last few years. Give us back our chair-only passes lol

eheathWait they dont sell chair only passes anymore?