Will Internet T-Shirt Help This Dude? (No.)

One of the odder snowboard stories we've heard this season surfaced at the Hopvine last night when a friend of ours asked, Did I ever tell you how I dislocated my shoulder?

No, we said, you mentioned you dislocated it but the Vicodin had you topic surfing.

The story goes like this: E. (actual initial) is up at Whistler snowboarding and has an uneventful wipe-out, sliding on his butt to just slightly out of bounds, where he comes to a stop. Whew, he thinks, and then the snow gives way and he falls between some logs that are covering a trickle of a stream -- probably on the way one of the logs whacked his shoulder and dislocated it. So he's stuck with his board at snow level and his head in icy run-off, and can only feebly waggle one arm in the hopes someone will see.

No one does -- except for someone passing by on a chairlift overhead. The good chairlift Samaritan yells, "YO! THIS DUDE NEEDS HELP!" And so help arrives.

Back in Seattle, E. told the story of his adventure to a friend of his, and that is why thisdudeneedshelp.com now exists, and will sell you a t-shirt that says "This Dude Needs Help!" (There is an asterisked disclaimer that "The t-shirt will not actually help this dude.")

Make of this what you will.