Snowboarder Receives Unwarranted Lecture On Using The Safety Bar From Random Skier

"if you don't want to put the bar down, don't, but if someone else on the lift wants the bar down, you have to let them put it down. HOWEVER, if you're the person on the lift putting the bar down, make sure you let everyone on the lift know that it's coming down. I can't count the number of times I've been hit in the head or crushed in some way because another person ripped the bar down without a heads up."

"This guy managed to capture one of the wildest chairlift experiences we've ever seen that doesn't include someone falling or jumping off. After the guy next to him puts the bar down without warning, the cameraman receives an unwarranted lecture on using the safety bar. Now there's a cut in the clip, so we don't know if the cameraman said something more after the bar came down."

The safety bar on chairlifts is controversial across North America; some places legally require it down and some resorts lower bars automatically, while most leave the choice to riders. Riders who choose not to lower the bar may keep it up, but must allow others to lower it; riders who lower the bar must warn everyone aboard before dropping it. Multiple personal incidents describe being hit or crushed when someone lowers the bar without warning. A captured clip shows a rider lowering the bar without warning, the cameraman expressing displeasure and warning others, and the lowering rider then lecturing the cameraman about snowboarders falling off. The clip is cut and full context is unknown.

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