u/quailwoman

I am a member at a ski club that had the most bizarre thing happened in March. I tried posting before but we had not hit the 14 day rule. I think we are well past that now. I hope skiing counts as a hobby because I have no where else to post. I was not there so most of this has come to me second or third hand from people who were there.

On March 9 all the members of the club received an email saying that the club was investigating an “incident” from the Ladies Day event the previous Friday.

Ladies day is an annual day at the club for women members and is loosely a fundraising event. Mostly it is an excuse for people to take the day off work and get drunk on a Friday. People ski in the morning, there is a race, a costume contest, and there are vendors selling everything from ski wear to skin care in the afternoon. There are prizes, games, and it usually ends with a pretty epic dance party with a DJ. The club is not closed for Ladies Day but it is generally known that you should not go to the event unless you have a ticket.

The day was already a bit tense because some dudes were lingering at the club and making women feel uncomfortable during the bikini ski (exactly what it sounds like - women went down the hill in bathing suits and bikinis). But otherwise the event seemed to go fine.

Until… someone killed the lights in the club house and three people showed up in serial killer masks with plastic chef’s knives and started banging on the windows. Later we found out that it was two men (members at the club that are supposedly in their 30s) and one of their sons who was only 14. They were filming on their phones presumably to get a reaction. From the photos Ive seen it was not immediately clear the knives were plastic. One of the knives had “blood” on it.

There were a couple hundred people at this event and the club house is enormous so not everyone reacted. People near the windows however, did freak out. This lead to an ‘alleged’ a confrontation in the parking lot between the drunk women and the men.

At one point when the lights were off (it was day time though so it wasnt actually that dark) a male vendor came into the club house and someone mistook him for one of the masked men and punched and or slapped him in the face (its unclear reports vary). Police were obviously called. The woman apparently has been charged but that is the last we heard about it.

Naturally rumors started to fly. People saying it was a stunt coordinated by the ladies day committee for ‘fun’, saying that one of the men was actually an employee/member of the club, wild stuff.

The club was investigating but of course was being tight lipped. So people do what people do best…they turned to facebook. The club has a facebook group where people mostly post looking for lost things, offering services, sometimes commenting on the snow conditions. The facebook group is members only and you have to prove you are a member to join (think proving your badge number and them cross referencing). In someone’s infinite wisdom the admin’s allow you to post anonymously and obviously the group became a blood bath. There is too much to report but the basic tenants of the posts are:

- How could we possibly let these folks get away with showing up with knives pretending they were going to hurt people?

- What is the club doing about this?

- Why do we have no transparency on what is happening and who these guys are?

- Why do we think women are delicate little flowers who cannot handle three men with weapons? WHERE IS YOUR SENSE OF WOMEN’S EMPOWERMENT?

- This is a witch hunt and it must end!!

- Everyone is too sensitive these days!!

- Various accusations of are you even a member (insert do you even go here meme) and I have been a member longer than you have been ALIVE!

A petition was started (and went no where) demanding accountability from the club.

Two weeks ago we got a message from the president saying the matter had been investigated and “resolved” and we were asked not to gossip about it. Which is a bit rich IMO. This kicked off another round of facebook posts about transparency and responses of no one can take a joke anymore.

Assorted Photos.