Skier sues 8-year-old over slopeside collision
Looks like trouble is brewing over slopeside accidents. The Associated Press recently reported that a 60-year-old man is sueing an 8-year-old and his father over a collision that left the older skier with a shoulder injury.
David Pfahler of Allentown, Pa., filed a claim in federal court in Denver, saying that Scott Swimm, then 7, was skiing recklessly when they collided. Pfahler is seeking $75,000 for physical therapy, vacation time, nursing and medical expenses.
Swimm's father, Robb, says he saw the crash and that his son was skiing slowly and in control. "It wasn't a violent collision or anything; Scott just kind of tapped his ski boots," he said.
"Who in the world sues a child?" Scott's mother asked. She said her son weighs only 48 pounds and couldn't have been going faster than 10 miles per hour.
Pfahler's attorney refused to comment on specifics according to the Associated Press, but wanted to go back to work at Reader's Digest.
Which brings us to the question, fellow skiers. What do you think about this case?
How can this 60 yr old person call himself anything but a lousy skier? You see a tree up ahead you swerve you see a mound of rocks sudenly you swerve you see a slow moving shorter than you person you do what? Swerve? or allow yourself to collide and sue? Be a man and be lucky his parents don't counter sue on psychiatric dyseunctions from being bumped into while learning to ski. Man that's the straw on the camels back. Take your sore shoulder and your pride and go lick your wounded ego and call it a day you overgrown baby. #%^t happens when you do any sport so leave the kid alone he had a right to be there as well as you did