View Full Version : why idiots shouldn't ice fish!
I can't help myself, this always amazes me. I'm fishing yesterday at a spot on Lake Oahe (famous for pressure ridges that stay open) watching these guys trying to recover their pickup and fish shack from the lake. They tried to drive accross a pressure ridge the day before and didn't make it. This happens at least once or twice every year. I can't help but wonder if these guys consider it a challenge to cross pressure ridges or if they think that pressure ridges are evolving each year to become stronger and will someday support a vehicle. Or maybe they think we are all idiots because we walk or ride atv's when they go driving by.
Don__SD
01-28-2002, 07:17 PM
That's what makes the USA so great, even idots are entitled to be idiots. One to many Buds(wisers), saying ah come on you can do it.
Rickk
01-28-2002, 07:32 PM
Famous last words of some of these guys is something like
"HEY EVERYBODY,...WATCH THIS!"
THUMPER
01-28-2002, 08:45 PM
There is a saying here in Ontario...What do you get when you mix male testosterone,alcohol and ice..........drownings. We see it every year and it is so sad. All preventable and in the prime of life. Many people do not realize the dangers out on the ice. Stay safe out there guys.
4EYESONLY
01-28-2002, 10:19 PM
This is probably the same group of people who park a bunch of fully rigged trailers , trucks and campers side by side on Big Detroit Lakes in Minnesota with 12-14 inches of ice and wonder why they went through.
Tom B
01-29-2002, 02:16 AM
This past Sunday on Mille Lacs, party dumped their snowmobile in open water at a pressure ridge. The folks that got it out of the water were just bringing it to the landing when some more guys on 4-wheelers went through at the same spot. Plus the DNR had put out a bunch of "thin ice" signs near the spot.
Tom B
Forest Gump
01-29-2002, 06:33 AM
stupid is as stupid does is what Mama always told me
Pitts
01-29-2002, 07:50 AM
Tom Ya just have to go faster over that open water at the pressure ridges on Mill Lacs. You can even jump them if the slab of ice that is pushed up is laying just right :)
Pitts
WCoyote
01-29-2002, 11:13 AM
Ventura may be right about we Iowans. We have record temperatures in January and it seems that there is another report every other day of someone going through the ice.
How smart is a guy when on fifth 55 degree day in a row he walks a 100 yards over ice with water up to his ankles, in some cases by signs screaming "Danger-Thin ice" and starts drilling holes.
wea
gettum
01-29-2002, 11:23 AM
Too bad idiots don't know they are idiots.
gettum
If ya make it idiot proof....they come up with a better idiot....
As the other saying goes,"No brain,no headache."
Amdahl
01-29-2002, 06:31 PM
Maybe if we hit 'em in the wallet hard enough they will think...Guy went through the ice on Koronis in Central MN. 70 feet! Costing him over three grand a day until he figures how to get it out. OUCH.
Be careful out there guys!
Amdahl
THUMPER
01-29-2002, 07:23 PM
The most stupid thing I ever saw was a snowmachine surfing open water of about 100 yards a few years ago. The temperature was in around 5F. He would run across it and then turn around and do it again. This is an adder to why idiots should not fish.
Pitts
01-30-2002, 06:21 AM
I have also seen this on the news and they didn't make it across with 2 people and one of them died. They were young and daredevils.
They should leave water skipping to the professionals who can ride on water for a very long time (I think the record is around 60 miles) They have support when they lose plane and sink.
Driving on less than 12" should never be attempted and walking on less than 4" is foolish.
Pitts
Backwater Eddy
01-30-2002, 06:47 AM
Just look for garbage and waisted fish on the ice, then you found a ice fishing idiot!
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Backwater Eddy ~ ~ ~><sUMo> ~ ><>
sdmike
01-30-2002, 09:40 AM
The good thing with some of these people is that they leave the Gene Pool and don't get an opportunity to continue propagation of their genes. Stupid things like this is often called the Darwin Awards and if it involves a death, its a good thing "One less mutant in the gene pool"
See ya
sdmike
Skillz
01-30-2002, 05:16 PM
I used to live on lake Koronis... He is lucky because he water he went though gets plenty deep--- 120+ft. I heard it was Ron Sahara's broher...from "Minnesota Bound". If this is the case, I don't think $$$ is a problem. I do know the DNR there, and I suggest he get his truck out asap! He is a nice guy, but doesn't put up with a bunch of wealthy @ss hole$ leaving their trucks in the water until spring.
skz