An elderly man with a shotgun allegedly scared a snowboarder by threatening to target him if he ever appeared on his private property adjacent to a Utah ski resort again.
“Do it again and you will have holes! I have every right to protect my private property,” allegedly threatened the owner of a neighboring property at a ski slope by pushing the snowboarder, in a video that went viral published Sunday and reported by Fox 13.
With his friends, Loren Richardson was enjoying the fresh powder by filming himself going downhill on his snowboard at the moment when he crossed the path of the elderly man, who was probably waiting for skiers to pass with a shotgun, near from the west lift of Brighton Ski Resort.
“Last descent with the guys. (…) What we didn’t know is that it could have been my last descent for life,” denounced the snowboarder on Instagram, in a video which had reached more than 53,500 views on Wednesday.
However, there was nothing to identify the path, which led directly to the Airbnb rented by the group for its direct access to the slopes, like that of a private property, said the snowboarder, apologizing to the owner in the video.
For his part, Brighton Mayor Dan Knopp said he was trying to calm things down by working with the police and area owners to prevent a repeat of the situation.
“They don’t have any trespassing signs, we get that. But what is not acceptable is to stand there with a gun and threaten people,” he reportedly told the American media.
But the skateboarder, still shaken by the encounter, cannot understand how this type of behavior can be tolerated, while neighbors would have reported in the comments of the video that they were used to seeing him with his weapon on the edge of the road. track.
“How can someone live in a resort and have a snowboarder come by and shoot them? “It’s like living on a golf course and not expecting golf balls to arrive at your house,” he lamented, according to Fox 13.
It is unclear whether the skateboarder plans to file a complaint against the man for the incident.
