As a resident of Bend and a loyal skier at your mountain (I was a season pass holder from 1999-2006 and I still ski primarily at Mt. Bachelor), I find the promotion of animal cruelty in your 2008 pond skimming “championship” video clip to be outrageous (not to mention insipid given the lack of creativity of the participant you chose to highlight). The idea that your corporation, which has recently and publicly suffered from poor mountain management and an indifference to the local ski community, would feature a snowboarder (inanely dressed as “Borat”) tossing a chicken from a briefcase into an icy skimming pond after carrying the chicken in the case during the run is not only offensive, but stupid.
Powder Corp. (sic) recently felt the need to shake things up at Mt. Bachelor by changing members of management – well the new crew is off to a really fine start. Perhaps a charge by the district attorney’s office of attempted animal abuse in the second degree (or conspiracy on the part of an entity that seems to be exploiting this incident on its website) would seal the fate of this brilliant team of leaders and public relations “specialists” as well.
I have really disliked seeing a previously cool mountain become worse and worse in every way over the past 5 years. Apparently, we can expect the downward spiral to continue if Mt. Bachelor allows this type of ridiculous and cruel behavior to go unfettered on its mountain, and on its website.
Oh, by the way, the Oregon Humane Society has been notified.
Robert Doyle, Bend
This article appears in Jun 5-11, 2008.
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you think thats bad check out peta’s sit of chickens thrown into boiling water so KFC can cook them fresh. so whats for lunch.
Get a life. That stunt was hilarious and the best part of the pond skimming contest. Anyone who was there will agree and that’s why Mt B. put included footage in the video – which has since been removed. Thanks to retards like you.
And for crying out loud it was a chicken. Who cares about a chicken. Half of us had chicken for dinner last night!
Anything Mt. Flatular does they do without forsight – there really are a bunch of morons up there running the show. I think it would be AWESOME to sic PETA on them. Give them more publicity – both PETA and Flatular. Moronistic behavior breeds morons.
Yes, as a lawyer I’m well aware of the statute. And as I said, I mentioned attempt and conspiracy, not the actual commission. So actual injury is not required, only intent and/or knowledge of the potential result respectively. Legal BS aside, the point wasn’t to involve the law (the Deschutes DA’s office is the last place I would expect justice to be carried out). Just ’cause you eat chicken doesn’t mean Mt. Bachelor should glorify this stupidity. And quite frankly, I’m tired of bad humor and any lack of creativity in this town. Borat? Come on.