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Gondola Collapse - Maribor, Slovenia

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8/10/09 at 3:21pm
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 http://dirtmag.co.uk/news/category/europe/maibor-world-cup-gondola-disaster/dirt-1235550.html
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8/10/09 at 4:03pm
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? Wasn't that like 3 weeks ago, mid-July?

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8/10/09 at 4:42pm
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Wow!  What a rust bucket.

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8/10/09 at 5:07pm
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Sure you wanna stick with that sig line?

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8/10/09 at 5:15pm
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They're dropping like flies

Blackcomb Gondola accident


Well, maybe not but adding some more fear to riding lifts may reduce crowds or encourage more people to wear helmets

I'd rather be skiing
 
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8/10/09 at 5:32pm
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Originally Posted by crgildart View Post

Well, maybe not but adding some more fear to riding lifts may reduce crowds or encourage more people to wear helmets
 

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Oh wait, this isn't my scooter forum.  Nevermind...........

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8/10/09 at 10:50pm
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? Wasn't that like 3 weeks ago, mid-July?

Yes it was few weeks ago. Gondola was a bit more then 50 years old, and well... I guess noone was really checking it right, if everything is fine or not. Of course there's bunch of rumors now why it went down, but simply because noone wants to take responsibility for this. Anyway... everything ended really good, and those two guys in that gondola were extremely lucky, so they didn't get much more then few bruises.
When looking back, I'm actually glad it didn't happen few months earlier, when I was skiing there :) But I would need to have really bad luck then. Even though this place is only about 150km away from me, I don't ski more then once a year there. And now I have really good reason why I don't 

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