I think we all have those horrible dreams where we are stuck somewhere naked in public. In my personal nightmare I am always stuck at school with no pants. I then comfort myself with reality. It never happens, right?

Wrong. Some poor dude in his 40s was suspended half naked from a ski lift in Vail, Colorado on New Years Day, thereby dashing all my midnight nightmare comforts.

This article appears in 2008.

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