Two men in the past week were charged with misdemeanors for tailing, confronting and tackling people at Copper and Keystone.
This past weekend, during the World Cup ski races at Copper, a man was kicked out of a restricted area. He told Summit County sheriff’s deputies a teenage boy was to blame, and so he followed the teen into the finish-line crowd.
That is where the man tackled the teen, with no provocation, breaking the victim’s camera as he was taking photos. The suspect was arrested on the spot for multiple crimes, including criminal mischief and assault on an “at-risk victim.” The teenager is special needs.
Earlier this past week, at Keystone, a woman believed a snowboarder nearly caused multiple collisions by turning too wide. She confronted him on the slopes and the snowboarder claimed right of way, saying he was always downhill from her.
That is when the woman and her husband tailed the snowboarder. Although “accounts of the situation vary slightly,” according to the sheriff’s office, the snowboarder and husband got into a tussle. Their fight was soon broken up, and no one was injured, but both men will be seeing a judge for disorderly conduct.
Reporting from OutThere Colorado reminds us: The snowboarder had a point. Downhill skiers and riders always have right of way.
