Replying to Am I responsible for this guys bindings breaking?

Skied whiteface today. There’s a large park jump towards the bottom of the mountain. It gets really crowded at the drop in and It’s always a fight to not get snaked. Finally my turn to drop, nobody showing symbols of an obstructed landing or anything, nobody up top even knew a guy had crashed.

Drop in, nice 180 safety, landed switch directly on top of some guys marker griffons. They completely fucking obliterated. Immediately I was struck with how many things went wrong for that to happen and how fucking unlucky that was. We exchanged contact information like it was fucking car accident to see if the warranty went through. In the moment I made the mistake to offer some money up if the warranty didn’t go through. Now he’s in my messages tryna talk to my parents and shit.

Heres the text convo (AITA)

Nick:
If I’m not able to get the bindings warrantied, can I get one of your parents phone numbers please

Me:
Try and get it warrantied first, i’m sure you can manipulate your way around evos warranties.

Nick:
I will do that, but I at least need either your last name or one of your parents’ phone numbers to keep you accountable

Me:
My parents don’t want anything to do with this.

Nick:
Understandable but if evo won’t warranty them I need some way to know that you can pay me for part of the binding price


I’m almost positive that I’ll be able to get them warrantied, but I need some sort of insurance

Me:
It really fucking sucks to be put in this situation. In all honesty i don’t have $150 to send you, i’m 16. I can throw money at you in condolences but I shouldn’t have to be held responsible for this.

If someone had crossed there poles or shown any indication of something in the landing this wouldn’t have happened.

Let me know how the warranty goes I don’t have any insurance to give you, sorry that i’m not a man of my word.

Nick:

I understand where you’re coming from, but telling me you can’t pay for it is a great reason why I need to talk to one of your parents. And if you were paying any attention to the jump you would not see me ski off which should tell you that there was something wrong and you should not have hit it. Telling me you can’t pay for it is a really shitty thing to do, even if it’s to a complete stranger

Me:
My parents would not play nice to you. The universal sign that a landing is obstructed in the park is an X. You or whoever you were with could have hollered to someone else 30 feet uphill from you to not get people to not jump. You, if you knew park etiquette, could have made an X, hollered, or shown literally any sign that there was a ski in the landing.

What am i gonna say to your face, “no i’m not paying for that shit”. I’m a pussy for not saying it to your face honestly. I get your frustration, and how you would want someone to pay for that loss, but a catastrophic accident is still an accident.

This is a shitty situation, and literally everything that could have gone wrong went wrong.

Once again i’m 16, and i think that should be an automatic turn off for you to ask for money from me.

Please let me know how the warranty goes, I want this to end in good faith.

End Convo (atm)



AITA? What do I even say to this mf, he’s a grown adult.