I have never posted a rant thread, but this deserves it. I have a ski pass that allows me to ski at 3 different resorts, so on saturday i decided to go to one of them that i had never gone to. Keep in mind while you read this that more than half of the park skiers on the East Coast have stolen rental poles. So i was going up the lift for my second run of the day, when one of the lifties confiscated my pole and said that i couldn't use it because it had no basket. He told me to go to rentals and grab one. I skied down to rentals and went over to the rack and grabbed a pole. The rental employee approached me and the conversation went like this:
him: You know you need to rent those?
me: ok, where do i rent them
him: no, i know what you are doing, you guys come in here all the time and steal my kiddie poles.
me: no im not, i was told to grab one by the liftie
him: no you are stealing, come with me
He called security and accused me of hiding the pole under my tall t and trying to walk out. The poles were right in front of me in my hand and i was in no way trying to hide them. I was charged for theft of service, because i never actually stole anything. It was so BS. Security clipped my ticket for the day, banned my pass for a week, made me pay full price for my ticket, for the pole rental that i never got and a theft of service fee, called my parents and i now have to write them a letter of apology before i can get my pass back. They destroyed my weekend. And we are getting the first real snow of the season this weekend.
