The Aspen Chairlift Thrower to be Released from Psychiatric Hospital Back in 2016, Thomas Proesel was charged with throwing a snowboarder 25-feet off a chairlift at Aspen Highlands, CO. Proesel pleaded insanity so that he wasn’t charged as guilty, and was later diagnosed with schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders. Proesel suffers from severe symptoms of paranoia and delusions that people are trying to hurt him, and he was committed after […] Industry News SnowBrains | October 14, 2019 0 Comments