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Gaper related injuries, anyone have stories?

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Da_CONK
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Alright this is my 1st thread attempt so if i did anything wrong just tell me don't get pissed.  Ok so i was at my local mountain yesterday and theres this battleship box after a flat down.  I nailed the flat down perfect but i was all lined up to hit the battleship when i got hurt.  This gaper cut infront of me and i was going pretty fast.  That wasnt a problem since i slowed down a bit.  The gaper went up the battleship slowly then when he got to the top just stalled and sat there.  He then proceeded to slide back down instead of jumping of the side.  I already had started the battleship figuring he would be off it by the time i got on.  When he slid down i swerved off the rail and did a huge nutcracker.  I was lying by the side of the rail in a shitload of pain.  He didnt even stop to apologize or ask if i was ok.  I went to first aid and when i was getting help this guy came in with his knuckles and hand all difformed.  He said he took a jump and had to swerve to avoid someone sitting down in the landing zone.  This was a really big jump to.  So the reason I created this thread was to see if anyone else had gaper related injury stories. 
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Shadows
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some fag gaper piece of shit ran into me cause he was too stupid to know how to pizza to stop. bucks me into the trees - i almost die - get flown out. gaper peaces like a little bitch. end of story.
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lorida
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My buds girlfriend was learning how to snowboard (first mistake) two weeks ago.

We got impatient, and ditched her for a run to hit the park.

We wait, and wait, and wait, and wait at the bottom.

Eventually, she comes down in one of those stretcher gigs. Fractured tailbone on the easiest hill. G-A-P-E-R.
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Zent33zy
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gaper goes right under the kicker as i take off

scared the shit our of me

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Joshua.
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my pole was the only thing injured... but i was going switch and a fat guy in my blind spot slammed into me. at the last second i saw him in a full on pizza wedge, chopping down the hill. it was my fault
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PilleDaKid
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I did a 180 over a knoll and a little girl cut in front of me, I landed on her and broke her collarbone, holy shit did I feel bad.
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da_leet_ski
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Happened to me on sunday

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P3TER
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it seems like all the park city edits has at least one near death/helmet tap because of gapers just chillin near the landing
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Six.0.Tree-ski
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me and my friend were walking with our skis still on past the lift line to head for my truck and this little gaper just comes flying down the mountain and cant stop or turn and just drills my friend. like absolutely drills him, my friend doesn't get knocked over at all, the kid just get leveled. it kinda made my day but i felt bad for the little guy.
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EternalJens
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hearing this stories makes me so happy my parks big jump (not so big jump) is the only feature in that slope, or well it crosses into another part of the park but gapers rather just do the whole park.
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Jweid
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didnt happen to me but one time me and my friend wereskiing down like a black recreation trail and we were just standing on one of the trail intersection thing like the little flattss in the middle of a traill where they come together.. all the sudden we hear yelling and this gaper about 15 years old is flying down the hill launches off the intersection flat ana lands on a ski patrol guy..... lets just say it didnt end pretty
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Da_CONK
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Ouch dude that blows.   ^^^whats your point
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Da_CONK
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my bad not you Jweird i meant what was Jenseriks point
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JacheOReally
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*steeze_is_good
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I was hitting a jump and a gaper was sitting on the landing. He was preparing for the next jump apparently while sitting on the landing. I do a 3, and while I'm mid 3, I see him and panic. I ended up landing right behind him and falling over him, recking my self in the process. He laughed. Fucking gapers..
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fountain.
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i didnt actually get injured, but it hurt like fuck and knocked the wind out of me majorly.

i usually ski, but i went snowboarding for a day with my family. so we were going down some green run, and i was just cruisin nice and easy. out of nowhere all i hear is AHH! and next thing i knew im flying through the air. i had no time to react, and honestly it took me a second to figure out what happened. a huge guy had hit me, who didnt know how to turn or stop or anything. im not even exaggerating this guy weighed about 300 pounds and was way taller than me. i had never had the wind knocked out of me that hard.

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3ski6guy0
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got off the lift at keystone getting ready for my first run of the day. couple hundred feet later some bitch hits me while im just crusing straight on the flat. tweaks my knee and ends and its funky all spring and summer. then next winter i blow it out first day skiing. awesome
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airjake
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i was hitting this jump and some idiot goes across the landing i have no clue what he was thinking and i 180 of the jump and land right on his leg thank god i saw him if i didnt react it would have beenvery bad thank god we got out ok
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deleted5
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Courtesy of Newschoolers.com
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Da_CONK
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holy tits thats probably the best post in this thread
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remove
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gaper helmet tail tap.... extra steezey
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Da_CONK
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way to own that gaper land on there head lol.  bet they wont ski near jumps for awhile now
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inactive
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cracked my helmet overshhoting
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adamlukowski
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IF something like this ever happened to me, I wouldn't take to it nicely, my park merges from another trail and right off the bat is my favorite rail,and you need to go so fast to get it, so out of nowhere this middle aged man comes out of nowhere, so i go from around the side and cut around him, they, i like to show gapers how it feels.

Also theres this awesome ski patroler/park attendent/friends dad, that ski's and is like 45 is so awesome, he enjoys yelling at people that go off the jump to the S rail, and its quite humoring

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OhMyBosh
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orly?
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*steeze_is_good
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Was there really any purpose to that?
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ninjahappy
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I was skiing on Blackcomb at the ripe old age of 7. i lived in whistler with my dad. he was skiing like 100 feet behind me, pretty much just protecting me from any gapers that cant ski. some fucking snowboarder cunt is ripping it down on his ass, out of control, and he takes out my dad and breaks 3 of my dads ribs. laying in the snow, my dad popped him in the face and broke his nose.

sparknotes

some snowboarder broke my dads ribs. fucker.

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CKpolicy
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huh?
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WaffleSteeze
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Waiting for a long fucking time at the back of a crowd of people to hit a jump line. It was the end of the day and everyone was trying to get in a last run through the park. Finally most of the people go down and only me and some gaper snowboarder are left. He goes up to the jump with no speed and i think hes gonna case it but insted he rides up and sits on the lip of he jump. I wait for him to get off but he doesnt so i decide to skip the first jump and hit the next ones. As i come over the side of the landing the gaper jumps off the lip falls on his face and slides dow the runway right into me. That was the worst last run i ever had.
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PilleDaKid
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wow
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c4t_l0ver
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this was yesterday, i was riding switch, and there was this UNSUPERVISED like maybe 3 year old little girl gound down the run all over the palce just ripping for a 3 year old. and like one side of the run to another all over the run and i thought i passed her, she t-bones me and i fall onto her, and this old man that was on the run statred yelling at me becasue 1) " i got in her way" 2) "i wasnt skiing normal and thats not even consitered skiing ( riding switch) and thats jsut stupid and shouldnt be alowed on ski hills and its for fucky teenagers who are not cool" and i see that guy later on in the day, so i crouched down ina ball to pick up speed and he starts yelling at me casue i wasnt skiing normal, and in the left line i got another speaking to by dr.faggot about i could kill somone and kids like us are the death of skiing.
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saucybiscuits
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so im skiing along this catwalk right? im goin fast as shit. this little fucking gaper cuts in front of me and to avoid hitting him and possibly killing the little fuck due to my extreme velocity, i had to swerve into a post and it broke my leg. 2 surgeries and an entire season down the drain.
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apcaipse
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PAGING DOCTOR FAGGOT.

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CANNON^
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came out switch of a 270 out of a c rail, never saw the kid on the landing on a the headwall, ran square into the snowboarding gaper with my back tips flipped right over him and hw just looked at me. i then proceeded to bitch him out and then rode away like a thug

another was one day i was fliming and some 40 year old gaper comes down with gay ass bindings (like the dukes or 10 earlier) skiing like a faggot. well my brand new skis were laying next to the rail. he then runs them over, he died and he ejects. he clips back in, takes on of my skis and proceeds to skis down hill then 30 ft later he whips my skis into the jump and skis away. after collecting myy stuff i ski down the hill pissed off. when i get to the lodge he is there waiting for me. he grabs my coat and starts bitching at me, and whip around and start screaming in his face making him look like a total idoit telling him if he want to fight a 16 year old and get his ass arrested that is cool with me and i will beat his ass. he eventually walks away looking like a total idiot with about 50 people looking at him like wtf is wrong with him.

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