Would You Rather Be Stuck In Ski Gondola Or A Hot Plane?
Let’s play the Would You Rather
Have you ever played the game in which you are asked to choose between two scenarios that are usually undesirable. Like having to swim the length of a swimming pool with a blind shark or run slap a sleeping lion on the butt and run away before he wakes up. So here are two real life situations that happened recently that are both very real and potentially dangerous. Stuck in a ski gondola or a hot plane?
The first scenario; Stuck in a ski gondola
A skier in Lake Tahoe was taking the lift back down the mountain last Thursday when it stopped . . . and she ended up stranded in mid-air OVERNIGHT. The employees just didn’t realize she was up there, apparently.
Her name is Monica Laso, and she’s from Chile She didn’t have her phone, and no one could hear her yelling for help. So she was stuck for 15 HOURS in freezing-cold weather.
Luckily, it was a closed-air gondola, not an open-air ski-lift. So she at least had that going for her. There was also a survival kit inside, but she didn’t find it.
She never ended up getting rescued. Her friends reported her missing, but employees only found out she’d been up there when they got to work the next day . . . turned the lift back on . . . and it dumped her out at the bottom.
She says she screamed for help so long, she lost her voice. But luckily, she’s okay. Firefighters checked her out, and she decided not to go to the hospital.
No word on if she plans to sue, or if anyone’s been fired. The resort says they’re investigating what happened.
(Tahoe Daily Tribune / Huff Post)
The second scenario; Climbing out of a hot plane
An airplane passenger was arrested after he defiantly stormed out of an airplane’s emergency exit and walked out onto the wing after a four-hour delay at the Mexico City airport — but other passengers say he saved their lives.
The Guatemala-bound AeroMexico plane was parked and waiting for takeoff at the Mexico City International Thursday when the fed-up passenger exited the plane and then re-entered the cabin “without affecting the aircraft or anyone else,” airport officials said.
He then turned himself into the police, according to the airport.
However, scores of passengers signed a written statement claiming the airline made them wait for four hours without ventilation or water while the flight was delayed.
They said the man’s apparent outburst was “to protect everyone, with the support of everyone.”
Make your choice!
Would you rather be stuck in a gondola or the hot plane? For me the choice is somewhat easy. I would prefer to be on the gondola for 15 hours. Sure, it’s cold and lonely being suspended in mid air for 15 hours, but being stuck on the tarmac of a hot plane in Mexico for 4 hours sound a lot more miserable to me. I don’t think that I would have been the first guy to climb out the window and onto the wing, but I surely would have been cheering the man on.
How about you?
