XPost: or.politics   
   From: lobby.dosser.mapson@verizon.net   
      
   Don Homuth  wrote:   
      
   > On Mon, 11 Dec 2006 17:41:52 -0800, Ockham's Razor    
   > wrote:   
   >   
   >>In article <_hnfh.3087$Et5.927@trndny07>,   
   >> Lobby Dosser  wrote:   
   >>   
   >   
   >>> Are there idiots out there as we speak?   
   >>   
   >>There are idiots everywhere.  They not uncommonly remove themselves   
   >>from the gene pool.  The only problem in cases such as this, the can   
   >>take others along with them.   
   >   
   > Two instances my old fishing buddy called to greet me with this   
   > morning from Minnyusoda.   
   >   
   > It's early in the ice fishing season there.  A couple of folks with   
   > snowmobiles wanted to get across the lake, but they had heard the ice   
   > was still too dangerous.  So -- what do they do? Please take just a   
   > moment and let this one sink in:   
   >   
   > They put inflated inner tubes around themselves Before they tried to   
   > cross.   
   >   
   > Think through the Utter Stupidity of that for only a moment.   
   >   
   > All three went through.  All three came out of their inner tubes the   
   > moment they hit the water, but only one was in 16 ft.  The other two   
   > were in less than five.  The two survived, the one didn't.   
   >   
   > The Darwin Awards committee should hear of this.   
   >   
   > The second one occurred last night, near Brainerd.  Someone with an   
   > ATV decided to try running the thin ice.  Water was about 40 ft deep.   
   >   
   > The two victims will be missed by their families, no doubt.  Society   
   > will, however, be better off without them. My understanding, however,   
   > is that one of them managed to breed successfully before demonstrating   
   > an incapacity for survival.   
   >   
   > Unfortunate, that.   
   >   
      
   In the 50s quite a bit of Lake Michigan used to freeze and folks thought   
   it fun to drive on the lake - cars in those days. Some thought it real   
   neat to drive near the edge of the ice. Sometimes floes would break off   
   with an automobile on board. It was great fun for Everyone Else   
   speculating whether or not the floe would melt or tip over before the   
   Coasties got to it.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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