A snowboarder spent 15 hours trapped overnight inside a ski lift gondola amid freezing temperatures at a Lake Tahoe resort, according to officials and media reports.
I already said this shouldn’t have happened but that’s not exactly the point, is it? The point is that she had a device that was capable of solving this problem but she chose not to bring it. There may have been a good reason for that but we don’t know.
If you don’t take your phone you’re assuming that everyone involved will do their job correctly 100% of the time and that just isn’t realistic, as evidenced by the fact that we are talking about this situation right now. Maybe getting stuck on a ski hill overnight is a risk you’re willing to take in order to avoid potentially damaging your phone but I think that’s a bad bet. I’ll take my phone and call for help when needed. Getting stuck on a gondola is not the only situation in which having your phone with you could be useful.
Somehow the whole world managed to keep spinning before cellphones existed. It may have helped in this situation, but that’s simply using the benefit of hindsight to make ‘the right call’ long after the fact.
And if she hadn’t gotten stuck in the gondola this never would have happened.
I already said this shouldn’t have happened but that’s not exactly the point, is it? The point is that she had a device that was capable of solving this problem but she chose not to bring it. There may have been a good reason for that but we don’t know.
If you don’t take your phone you’re assuming that everyone involved will do their job correctly 100% of the time and that just isn’t realistic, as evidenced by the fact that we are talking about this situation right now. Maybe getting stuck on a ski hill overnight is a risk you’re willing to take in order to avoid potentially damaging your phone but I think that’s a bad bet. I’ll take my phone and call for help when needed. Getting stuck on a gondola is not the only situation in which having your phone with you could be useful.
Somehow the whole world managed to keep spinning before cellphones existed. It may have helped in this situation, but that’s simply using the benefit of hindsight to make ‘the right call’ long after the fact.