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Jan 9, 2009 4:18 pm US/Mountain

Vail Suspends Employee For Ski Lift Bottom Photos

Section: Skiing Video Clips

Ski Report: Trails & Conditions

VAIL, Colo. (AP) ―

Click to enlarge 1 of 2: Marty Odom of Vail shared this photo with CBS4.
Marty Odom
Click to enlarge 2 of 2: Odom also took this photo.
Marty Odom

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A photographer who snapped pictures of a man dangling upside down during a mishap on a ski lift at Vail, his bottom exposed, has been suspended from his job of taking souvenir photos.

Photos of the unidentified man who was rescued from the lift on Jan. 1 caused a sensation on Web sites.

Chief Financial Officer Dick Roy Friday of SharpShooter Imaging says photographer Marty Odom used company equipment to snap the photos and breached company policy by releasing the images.

Odom, in a blog post, has said he was not working and shot the pictures with his own camera.

Odom did not return a message left by The Associated Press.