Frozen lake chaos

[Shewie]

A few minutes of chaos on a frozen lake in California ...

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/wor...rescue-descends-into-chaos-in-California.html

 

[John Fenna]

It would be comic if it was not so close to tragic!

 

[Imagedude]

Should've been carrying their ice spikes

 

[Elen Sentier]

How unutterably and b[FONT=&quot]elievably [/FONT] stupid !!! It really is tragic that folk are so ignorant. And don't you just love all the ones who walk away to save themselves?

 

[mentalnurse]

Should've been carrying their ice spikes

like the ice spike. I take it u carry them around ur neck just in case. Where do u get them from?

 

[abominable_scouse_monster]

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[Imagedude]

like the ice spike. I take it u carry them around ur neck just in case. Where do u get them from?

Got mine from Finland

http://www.scandinavianoutdoorstore.com/en/talviretkeily/retkiluistelu/jaanaskalit/

 

[bilmo-p5]

Didn't Wayland make a pair in his prep for his Arctic trip earlier this year?

 

[Jared]

Top marks for the people stating the obvious shouting "Grab it"

 

[Niels]

That just upsets me I'm actually getting cold watching that.

 

[santaman2000]

like the ice spike. I take it u carry them around ur neck just in case. Where do u get them from?

You can make them with a bit of broom handle and a nail.

 

[santaman2000]

Should've been carrying their ice spikes....

And the would be rescuers should have been smart enough to lay down to spread out teir weight. But they were in California.

 

[crosslandkelly]

Eejit's:yikes:

 

[forestwalker]

Not idiots, but they just did not understand ice, and had -- AFAICT -- zero rescue experience of any kind. That is, they were a crowd of regular people from somewhere where ice is a rare occurance.