"Magnestick" invention to stop children falling out of ski chairlifts

[mercury]

Was just reading nice relaxing "Mountain Report" about Meribel ski resort in the summer time when I noticed this:

Mottaret’s lift company is equipping two chairlifts, the Combes and Arolles, with a new Magnestick system which will allow children to travel on these lifts in greater safety (children in ski lessons will be given a special magnetic bib which will ‘stick’ them to the back of the chairlift)

Well, excuse me but does anybody else think this safety business has gone a bit far??! Poor little French kiddiewinkles! Treating them like bags of cement. Do the children usually leap out of their seats towards the ground far below?

[Jezza]

Do the children usually leap out of their seats towards the ground far below?

Um... I did once, off a chairlift in Bulgaria. It was further than it looked 

But yes. Load of bollocks.

[bobb]

I could have done with that system in Colorado years ago! The chair lift was so antiquated and rose almost vertically at alarming speed. I was thrown out at a fair height after battling to stay on for a few seconds. Fortunately there was several feet of snow below 

[Pingu]

I should think more pissed English adults fall out of chairlifts in Meribel than children.

[Cunobelin]

What a superb idea.... and so many uses!

No more "grounding" of children, just stick them to the fridge!

[saturn]

Presumably the polarity reverses at just the right moment at the top to shove the  kid successfully onto the piste