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to wonder what on earth this woman is doing?

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itsmeolord · 07/01/2010 08:06

look here photo of lady on lake with pram She is pushing her pram on a frozen lake, nobody actually knows how thick the ice is, "it's thought to be 6 inches thick".
Ice doesn't freeze in an even formation, she hits a thin spot she or the pram containing small child is going in.
BBC news had a vid feed of a child playing on a frozen lake lake last night as well, at the end of the news programme thet'd obviously had complaints because they announced we shouldn't worry about the child, the "pond" was a very shallow puddle....

Don't walk on frozen ponds/lakes, it's not bloody well safe you idiots.

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cat64 · 07/01/2010 11:01

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MmeLindt · 07/01/2010 11:16

Whats the point?

Um, it is fun to slide on the ice. Bet all her friends were skating.

Folk have been walking on the Lake for years

GhoulsAreLoud · 07/01/2010 11:18

Is it fun? Doesn't look like it to me.

Horses for courses I guess.

ChristianaTheTwelfth · 07/01/2010 11:19

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GhoulsAreLoud · 07/01/2010 11:20

So how do you slide on the ice with a pram then? Isn't it quite hard to get any momentum going?

Doing it without the pram, I can understand. But that?

StewieGriffinsMom · 07/01/2010 11:23

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lambanana · 07/01/2010 11:32

Well I wouldnt do it but it does look pretty thick as it is almost white. If she is alocal she will have a better idea but still not a great thing to do IME .

shootfromthehip · 07/01/2010 11:42

I live near that lake and they are going to have the Curling on it at the weekend. Apparently (and I say that because the area I live in is terrible for gossip) the army has been out to risk access it and check the thickness to make sure that it's safe.

Still don't fancy wandering on it though but will go and watch the other nutters locals doing it

AgentProvocateur · 07/01/2010 12:06

shootfromthehip, is it going to be on Saturday or early next week? I'd love to go, but I'm at work during the week. It would be wonderful if it was on at the weekend.

shootfromthehip · 07/01/2010 12:14

Apparently Saturday. one of my friends was down there yesterday and said that they were going to be putting up lights etc. Don't know where you would get confirmation about it though- we're going to turn up and hope for the best I think. If I get any more gossip news then I'll update you here. Are you local to LofM? We're a bit north!

AgentProvocateur · 07/01/2010 12:18

We're a bit south, but only about half an hour's drive. One of my friends is a curler, so if I hear any news from him, I'll update here too.

I have no interest in curling, but I'm strangely excited by the thought of going to a Bonspeill!

shootfromthehip · 07/01/2010 12:20

Me too! Don't know if it'll happen again anytime soon so may as well have a jolly down and see and take photos to prove to the kids (who will no doubt hate me at some point) that we did indeed do cool things with them

Maybe see you there!

ChristianaTheTwelfth · 07/01/2010 14:08

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shootfromthehip · 07/01/2010 14:19

Christiana- have googled for ruther info and the Dundee and Loch Leven venues have too much snow so will not be suitable. If it's going to happen then it will be Lake of Monteith.

more info

Doesn't look like it will be the weekend after all though AP- decision will be made tomorrow.

ChristianaTheTwelfth · 07/01/2010 20:21

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shootfromthehip · 08/01/2010 14:59

No curling on Lake of Menteith- apparently all Health and Safety concerns cannot be resolved so they won't be holding it. Boo.

AgentProvocateur · 09/01/2010 12:29

Well, perhaps no official bonspeil...

Georgimama · 09/01/2010 12:33

I expect those three men who went through the ice on that lake (2 of whom died) in Leicestershire yesterday had "local knowledge" and thought it was perfectly safe too.

I'm going to stick with my initial response of "moron" thanks.

carocaro · 09/01/2010 16:57

Just flipped when DS and DS1 got home as he had taken a pic of DS on a frozen lake, only a couple of metre's or so in the lake, but still FFS did he know how frozen it was?

Why is it necessary to stand on a fucking bit of ice.

Total dick, am furious.

shootfromthehip · 11/01/2010 09:49

Did anyone go then? We went yesterday and I have never seen anything like it. 'Twas amazing. We walked right out to the abbey and wandered about there.

Oh and we are not 'morons': if it's good enough for the army at 7" thick then that's good enough for me (and half of Glasgow and the surrounding area). That said, I would not be wandering about a frozen lake unless I had serious proof of the thickness. And I would not have been the first one on either!

cory · 11/01/2010 09:58

Surely this post is just another instance of how people are not trained to judge natural phenomena and safety these days, thinking any ice has to be unsafe without being able to give measurements, how long it had been frozen, temperatures etc.

Just back from Sweden where we skated on a local lake and walked on the sea ice because we knew it was safe, because we were taught that kind of thing in primary school. Ds went through a patch of dogdy sea ice, as it so happens, but we let him as we knew it was only a few inches deep and he couldn't possibly come to any harm.

Youngsters in this country are just taught that anything to do with nature- swimming in the sea, jumping from rocks, walking on ice- is dangerous and irresponsible, which is precisely why they do it and get into trouble. In other countries they are taught how to do it safely.

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