Desná ski resort. Was it this lift?
Who in the hell steals an entire chair? Hard core Czech dudes, that’s who…
According to the Prague Daily Monitor, an entire ski lift has been stolen in the Northern Bohemian town of Desná in the Czech Republic on May 7th, 2012. Yeah, the whole damn thing…
The steel support structures, three posts, a pulley, and a 1.0 kilometer long cable were taken.
Desná looks nice. Hope they try to steal this thing.
The stolen lift must be smallerish as it was only netted to worth 200,000 crowns or $10,236.64 USD.
We’re pretty sure that the police are somewhat amused by this, but they are also investigating the theft thoroughly. They’re trying to figure out if the thieves are gonna use the lift somewhere else or if they’re gonna just dismantle it and sell the parts.
This theft carries a sentence of up to 5 years in prison.
Worth it tho. Imagine having your own, private, free ski lift. We applaud this action! …no, no we don’t.
Desná, Czech Republic is on the big red “A”
play with Desná map.
hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha
ahhhh, now we know the real plan to connect Squaw and Alpine…
+1
David Lesh tours eastern Europe.
CR is not eastern Europe…asshole
ok Cuervo
politically it was behind the iron curtain, so yeah, it’s generally considered part of eastern europe.
It´s central Europe, look, nice right in the middle, the Iron Curtain did not changed the geography knowhuamsayin´?
well yes it is.
CZ (not CR) may not be completely to the east of austria which would leave it on the border to eastern europe. but central and western europe already counts it to the «eastern block»
I’m European, I guess I should know
Geographicly the CENTRAL POINT of Europe is in the middle of Poland so nope. Czech Republic is not Eastern europe. The region is called Central east. as in Central first, than east part of it.
yes geographically it is central, but politically it is considered Eastern Europe
central point of Europe is in Ukraine. Im from Czech Republic, for me it doesnt metter if you call it middle or east Europe, the main thing is that we not Russians. If you will call someone from Czech as Russian it will be big fail.. Politically we are democratic, but coruption is on high level so people dont really trust to politics here… You can find many many historical relics in CZ (CR) and its deffinetly worth it to visit us.
CR IS COSTA RICA.
Go back to school and major in geography
CR means Ceska republika, which is the name of the country in czech language. CZ is international country code
CR stands for Ceska Republika, which means Czech Republic.
I guess you’re the one without the major in geography now… see what I did there?
Well, there is several “central points” of Europe and few of them is in Czech republic so it’s definitely in Central Europe.
I’m Czech, I guess I should know
If Czech Republic is in eastern Europe my country – Romania- is in Asia…
CR = Confirmed Retard
Everyone knows that Paris is the center of Europe
That’s why is it so easy to switch sides, it’s right in the middle.
Ten grand must go a long way in the Czech Republic because you couldn’t pay me 20 to steal even the smallest lift I’ve been on. Those bastards are crazy.
i would do it for 15
It looks wicked in my back yard…..
im picturing oceans 11, but everyones a drunk czech guy and they use cranes and bulldozers
I think no one is seeing the underlying issue that even if you do get caught it’s only 5 years in prison…
Thank you Skiinpow420! That was my take-away. Crazy.
Top 5 stories published on here yet…
only 10k for a ski lift? hmmmm…
Sounds like an inside job fersure!!! How do you do this without somebody watchin?
And I thought I had big balls…damn
Ski lift, Czech.
I can almost guarantee they stole it to scrap the metal..Scrap prices are incredibly high for what it is (scraps of metal). Just last summer in Tennessee or Kentucky a bunch of rednecks stole a fucking bridge…They went and took the entire thing apart with torches etc and were planning to scrap it for something like $20,000. Seems cheap for a bridge but people are willing to do anything just to not have to work.
You call tearing apart an entire bridge “not working”????
I would say if someone is willing to work hard like that he expects also a good pay but most companies are so god damn cheap that it is paying much better to take a bridge or lift if you are doing tough labour
stealing a ski lift or bridge sounds like a lot of work to me.
I’m betting it was those GD GYPSIES!
exactly. as usually
The latest reports from the Police say that they believe to have a recorded conversation from the suspects cell phone. In this conversation two adults can be heard talking about the lift, how much they like it, and deliberating about it’s value. Though it isn’t till the very end of the conversation that the main suspect made his intentions very clear, by his last words being “CZTO”. an acronym for what the police believes is “CZECH THIS OUT” !
HA! This is what I heard too. A guy at a ski resort told me the same story!!!
A couple days ago I was watching the news on Czech tv (i am part Czech.) from the video that they showed, it looked like the chair lift was hella old. BUT in Czech republic people do crazy shit (someone once stole a power line tower, one of those huge ones) and they get shitloads of money from selling it as scrap metal.
Good info. thanks. Let us know if you’re able to dig up that video, we’d all love to see it.
Well, here is the whole news report, I couldn’t find the video of the lift. Fast Forward to 4:47, sorry this is in Czech, but it may give you an idea of what happened.
http://tn.nova.cz/zpravy/archiv-tn/sledujte-zive-televizni-noviny-148.html
ALSO, I found this article about the stolen chair lift, you can use Google Translate or something to translate it into English, the picture of the t-bar chairlift is NOT the chairlift that was stolen tho.
http://tn.nova.cz/zpravy/cernakronika/zlodeji-ukradli-cely-lyzarsky-vlek.html
Best part about translating that article to English:
http://cloud.awellis.me/1m0N051w0b2i0H3D0a13
Hahahhaha
HAHAHA oh my god!!!!
In post-Soviet Czech Republic, “Ski lift steals you!”
this time the lift, next time the mountain….always the same with the polish guys^^
so these guys were riding the lift and said, “hey guys, we don’t have enough money for our season pass next year, what are we gonna do?” “We gotta sell some shit, but what could we sell?” “We already sold that telephone pole for this years passes.” “Guys, hear me out here, this is gonna sound like a lot of work but let me finish, aren’t you guys sick of riding this old rickity lift? I think it’s time they get a new one. Let’s help them out with that.”
Love it. Really brought me back to those dysfunctional days the in the Czech Republic. No place like it.
Naaaaaaaa ZZZZZZdraví
Don’t use “tho” when you mean “though”, retard.
is not a 1°April Joke ?
Nope totally true. Was there but now it isn’t.
Fuck you, maybe we are stealing ski lifts, maybe we are drungs etc. etc, but at least we are not fat ugly americans spending most time eating and conquering the world feeling like a boses.
Whats wrong with feeling like a “Boss”? You say it like its a bad thing???
BIG FUCKING BOSSSSSS!
suck my tally wanker your commie Bastard!
BOSS!!!!
http://youtu.be/WhKrLYhXIDg
WUT!!? THERE WAS A LIFT STOLEN IN THE CZECH REPUBLIC, YOU GUYS BETTER REPOST THIS, I DIDN’T HEAR ABOUT IT THE FIRST 40 TIMES YOU POSTED THE ARTICLE!
This somewhat sounds like an insurance scam… I mean come on the whole chair lift. Someone had to have noticed it being removed and it being worth only $10000 USD.
Fukkin gypsies….
Was it insured against theft… cause if it wasn’t i feel bad.
i think imma go put it back
Unofficial guys: this is your most popular article ever because it’s almost exclusive reporting on the American Internet. If you google “stolen ski lift” you get mainly ski-blog articles which I bet got the story here.
(for the sake of my point, let’s ignore the fact that the story is fucking awesome and no normal human could not click the link)
Moral: digging into corners like the Prague daily news or whatever is awesome for hits- way better than top 10s about god knows what. This is the kind of shit we love you for… Ski news that we wouldn’t know otherwise.
I mean, there are Czech dudes arguing about geography on this board right now… That’s a pretty big step up in audience from chimney comments or kirkwood thug life bullshit
Keep up the good work
hahaha thats just nuts! where the f**k are they hiding it!?!
The resort right next to here just announced it is putting in a new used chairlift for the 12-13 season!
this is what they are using as the lift to get to chads
Saw an entire Gondola installed at Stratton Mtn. in Vermont USA in less than 4 hours. 15 towers and the entire cable strung. But …. it was done with a skycrane helicopter and a five person ground crew. This chair was an easy haul for one night. Three /four towers easy … release tension on cable then release cable from pulleys / unbolt towers from the cement footings, timber. Hardest part of job would be dealing with the cable. Ever watch “Man on a Wire” Tight wire between the two world trade buildings. Anything can be done with the right skills, planning and timing. Somebody had a great fun evening and a memory that will last a lifetime. What a great thing to tell your grandchildren. “One time when ….. I stole a chair lift…..”
Czech republic as many other former Eastern Bloc countries are now fully westernized countries and should be considered part of the so-called “west”. Well, except that the so-called “Western Europe” wants to see all Slavs to be considered Eastern Europe forever.
Dobra Den (God day), psst does Friends of Squaw want village be disappeared for good price?
I will trade you number one prostitute for ski lift. HI FIVE!
sooo….. if they get caught are they going to lose their pass?
or just have to watch a safety video
So whose F^%cking idea was to blow the dust off this thread from a year ago.