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ninjatutle
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hmm

"Comcast had an employee on site during the rescue who kept the Comcast management team informed of rescue efforts. "

Nice of them to remain seated in their warm offices...

If the guy would have drank Red Bull, he could have saved himself. It gives you wings...
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Re: hmm

said by ninjatutle See Profile :

"Comcast had an employee on site during the rescue who kept the Comcast management team informed of rescue efforts. "

Nice of them to remain seated in their warm offices...
And that is where they should stay, out of the way of people who have work to do and who do not need incompetent 'have to be in charge' types screwing up things.

said by ninjatutle See Profile :

If the guy would have drank Red Bull, he could have saved himself. It gives you wings...
You have been watching too many ads.
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It could have been worse

Click for full size
A whole new meaning to the term ski bum
The other person in the chair lift is the "ski Bum's" daughter who will no doubt have to seek counselling for terminal embarrassment.

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Re: It could have been worse

I saw that. Wanted to add that as a "could be worse" story addendum, but the exposed err, unit probably would have drawn cries of impropriety from the peanut gallery...
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Re: It could have been worse

I think it was a good choice not to add the "exposed unit" - not so much for propriety, but the poor guy's picture has been all over the national news at this point.

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Re: It could have been worse

there is a full set of Photo's over at "Smoking Gun"
As you can see there was no exposed unit to be see. The cold must have shrunk thing down to a bare
( sorry) minimum.

»www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/ye···il1.html
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said by AVonGauss See Profile :

I think it was a good choice not to add the "exposed unit" - not so much for propriety, but the poor guy's picture has been all over the national news at this point.
Poor guy??? Whatta dumbass. I'd like to know how exactly one's drawers drop while sitting on a ski lift. I mean, notwithstanding that the asshat nearly fell OUT of the lift, wasn't he wearing pants with an elastic waistband?? WTF.
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ninjatutle
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Where's snowzilla when you need him

birdfeedr
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Re: hmm

said by ninjatutle See Profile :

"Comcast had an employee on site during the rescue who kept the Comcast management team informed of rescue efforts. "

Nice of them to remain seated in their warm offices...
Faylor was a worker for Preferred Tank & Tower, Inc. of Evansville, Indiana, obviously subcontracting for Comcast. Safe to say he was an experienced climber. There were other Comcast people on site, and yes, it's normal procedure to keep management people informed of rescue efforts.

I'd have an issue with them if the crew foreman called back in at the end of the day, and said "We're running a little behind getting the hookup finished. We had a guy fall and almost die but he got rescued, and he's ok, but he should probably have a couple of days off before he goes back up the tower." So, Ninja, I'm not sure what point you're trying to make.

If you've ever investigated a serious accident like this, you'll understand that there are far more dynamics involved than simply suits in a warm office. If you've never seen one of these up close, you'll have to take it on faith that it's being investigated.

FWIW, the Wireless Estimator article has a couple of more details about the accident, while the Crescent-News article has more info about the rescue effort.
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