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Title: Golfer Falls Into Frozen Over Lake
Source:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4TxahKAqlg
URL Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4TxahKAqlg
Published: Dec 19, 2016
Author: WATCHLIFE
Post Date: 2016-12-22 13:22:19 by goldilucky
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Views: 1639
Comments: 6
My comment: When I see people playing and driving on the ice over a lake I just shake my head in disbelief. It's so Darwinian that no explanation is needed.
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#1. To: goldilucky (#0)
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When I lived in Minnesota on Coon Lake, in the winter ice fishermen would drive their trucks and cars out on the ice to their fishing shanties. It's pretty safe as long as the ice is thick enough. This is on White Bear lake, but you get the idea. You can see in the video you posted that the ice is not nearly thick enough to support a guy swinging a golf club. I guess he didn't want to take the penalty for hitting into a water hazard. Well you do have a point about the ice being thick enough. That makes me also think about those scientists doing their research and development on the ice in Antarctica. Although the ice may be thick enough to golf on, it can still separate like shelves of glaciers causing you to be separated from the rest of your group. Even then, I'd still say it's just not that safe.
I remember the Jack London story about a newcomer in the Yukon territory who decides to hike to a mining camp. He thinks he is well prepared and even has a dog to go along with him. He feels safe walking along the ice because of how cold it is. However, there were always pockets of thin ice. He breaks through one and gets soaked, and now knows he can only survive by making a fire to dry out his clothes. He has matches with him, but can't strike them because his hands are so frozen. He thinks of using his knife to cut the dog open to warm his hands on the dog's entrails. However the dog senses his desperation and runs away. He quietly freezes to death.
The dog was smarter than he was. Si vis pacem, para bellum Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God. There can be no divided allegiance here. Any man who says he is an American, but something else also, isn't an American at all. We have room for but one flag, the American flag... We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language... and we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a loyalty to the American people."Theodore Roosevelt-1907. I am concerned for the security of our great nation; not so much because of any threat from without, but because of the insidious forces working from within." -- General Douglas MacArthur
Now I don't remember the Jack London story but your story makes me cringe. I just cannot understand the stupidity of some people. I see people driving on the icy lake not far from me and I just know it will be a matter of time before there is a fatality there.
You might find this interesting. Secrecy and Mysteries Challenge the Official History of AntarcticaWhen I see people playing and driving on the ice over a lake I just shake my head in disbelief. It's so Darwinian that no explanation is needed.
“Truth is treason in the empire of lies.” - Ron Paul
Those who most loudly denounce Fake News are typically those most aggressively disseminating it.
#2. To: Deckard (#1)
#3. To: goldilucky (#0)
My comment: When I see people playing and driving on the ice over a lake I just shake my head in disbelief. It's so Darwinian that no explanation is needed.
#4. To: no gnu taxes (#3)
" the dog senses his desperation and runs away. He quietly freezes to death. "
#5. To: no gnu taxes (#3)
#6. To: goldilucky (#2)
That makes me also think about those scientists doing their research and development on the ice in Antarctica.
“Truth is treason in the empire of lies.” - Ron Paul
Those who most loudly denounce Fake News are typically those most aggressively disseminating it.
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