The internet is buzzing over old photos showing people riding the old Snow King Mountain chairlift without safety bars 1,500 feet above Jackson. They’re 100% real. . . .
Source Article (cowboystatedaily.com)
Back then America didn't have the robust lawsuit industry that it has today. Also, more people with a sense of self responsibility that were properly taught not to be the equivalent of the modern nigger.
At first I was like... Holy FUCK!
But then I actually read the aticle.
At most, the chairs skim along the side of the mountain about 30-50 feet off the ground. In some places, as little as 20 feet separate rider from earth.
Oh.
They go up 1500 feet.
And so does the ground.
They're 30 feet off the ground, not 1,500.
It might be 20 feet to the ground. But that ground is a shear cliff face. So, if you were to jump, it would take a minute to stop rolling and sliding. Leaving a decent portion of skin and meat on the exposed rock. If you lived, you'd wish you hadn't.
Oh, it would definitely suck to fall regardless; but the click-baity title does a good job of making it sound like they're a quarter-mile above the ground without a seatbelt was my point.
I wouldn't ride that thing if my life depended on it.
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