6 vehicles plunge through Lake St. Clair ice

[Faygo Kid]

Source: Detroit Free Press

Emergency crews and tow truck drivers had pulled five vehicles from the frigid waters of Lake St. Clair by 5:45 p.m. Saturday and were working on a sixth.

Bill Yost, Ira Township assistant fire chief, said the first call about a vehicle that had broken though the ice was at 3:18 p.m. More calls came in rapid succession.

Read more: http://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/2016/01/30/cars-lake-st-clair-ice/79584618/

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Ah yes, every Detroiter and Michigander awaits this every year, as the doofuses strike yet again. Any bets against them being Trump or Cruz voters? Didn't think so.

[navarth]

1. Yeah, we have our own Darwin awards.

[MrScorpio]

2. Morons…

The winter hasn't been close enough at all for this sort of nonsense. Hell, it was 43 degrees out there today. We've only had one decent snowfall all winter and that was completely melted in less than a week.

I live a stone's throw from the lake and I wouldn't go out there at all.

[Elmer S. E. Dump]

3. The same class of moron lives in Wisconsin in large numbers

I won't even walk on a lake in these wild up and down temps, let alone drive a automobile out on it! These people are too dumb to fish (or whatever the hell they thought they were doing out there).

[safeinOhio]

4. Reading the article and looking at the photos,

they only drove a little way off the beach and were just extending the parking lot. I don't think any of the cars or trucks sunk or anything like that. Just up to the top of the their wheels. The fish were bitting.

[left-of-center2012]

5. "Maniacs" drive on frozen lakes

When I lived in Maine there were news stories of people driving on frozen lakes. They thought it fun to skid around. Each year a few would crash through the ice and die.
One coworker of mine often drove on the frozen lakes, taking her young children with her.
I asked if she didn’t worry about the ice breaking under her car, and she said no.
Said she always walked out first to make sure the ice was solid.
She weighed about 150 pounds. Felt solid enough for her, so a car load of folks should be OK.

[hedgehog]

6. Buffalo does it better - how about ice fisherman rescued off of

floes of ice on Lake Erie - just above the Niagara River?

[ileus]

7. Those ice fishing guys are hardcore.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

8. I don't know how they can enjoy fishing and driving on ice ...

[llmart]

9. Yeah, they're also the kind of people who.......

are anti-government, anti-tax, but when they need to be rescued (every freakin' year there's at least one of these incidents) they have no problem with the taxpayers footing the bill for the Coast Guard or whoever to come save their stupid butts.

[rurallib]

10. In Minnesota it's a huge fine if a vehicle ends up in the lake

My kids live near a major lake in Minnesota. I believe they told me there is a $10,000 fine if your car ends up in the water plus rescue and tow fees.
They get really mad about the environmental damage

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[Earth_First]

11. As well there should be...

They should call it 'The Stupid Tax'

[valerief]

12. How stupid does a person have to be to...oh, never mind.

I'll never understand the minds of morons.

[vkkv]

13. See link, queue Bob Seger "Like A Rock" _____________________________ __ n/t

[NurseJackie]

14. Looks like an EXPENSIVE operation to retrieve the vehicles. Who pays for that??

Do the drivers just shrug and say "oops" and "thanks for helping, guys!" ... or does the city/county send them a bill?