2 brothers die falling through ice on lake

[mrstimlovejoy]

this has happened near to my house.4 men were apparently standing on the ice scattering ashes when 3 fell through 2 have died and the other is critical.
what a tragic thing to happen just goes to show how dangerous the ice is

Yes its tragic, just heard this on my local news ..I live in the same town

How awful, but you also have to say how stupid. Why on earth would grown men be daft enough to stand on ice?
I feel for their poor family.

How sad why choose that place to scatter ashes though.

Our local radio (germany) said that the official advice is that ice should be 15 cm thick before its safe.
Not sure how you measure the thickness though.

lilyloo watermead park where it happened is a really nice nature reserve so probably was a spot that the person who died visited.very popular with dog walkers

Oh my god sorry I meant

just been on the news, they weren't scattering ashes, they were feeding the ducks.
How stupid.

really tinsel not seen the news tonight just what i read in the local paper.

This is near us,I used to live in the same town.Those lakes are very deep-they were old gravel pits and very dangerous.I can't believe anyone would think it was a good idea to go out on ice like that.

Oh goodness poor family

Aunt lost 6 of her grown up children in a car crash,devastated her.

God blessXX

Did anyone see a photo in the sun today of a woman and her dd about 10 walking right by a sign saying 'danger thin ice'

Photos in the Metro as well of boys jumping on the ice and trying to crack it with a stick - caption saying they were at it for 45 minutes. Made me wonder what the photographer was doing watching children doing something so dangerous for 45 minutes and just taking pictures rather than stopping them

how

poor family

i so agree though, how stupid of these people to be out on a frozen lake!! DH and i took DD to the park earlier today and a woman was messing about on the lake with her small child right by a cracked part!! they were running/skating around and you could see the loose ice shuddering when they were near it!! all i could think was it would be a local 'tragedy' story going something like 'young mum loses child in accident on ice/child found alone on ice mum found later drowned in freak accident' i am baffled sometimes by the sheer stupidity of people!

i did see that picture in the star today of the woman walking with her small child in a pram across a frozen lake too i cant imagine the reasoning behind that at all

They were visiting the UK and obviously sadly unaware that ice gets thinner as you approach open water.

missus I thought that was fucking hilarious. "Trying to break the ice for 45 minutes" - ummm, maybe it's just not going to break.

It does make me laugh the way people get their knickers in a twist about such things.

"Biggest freeze evah" vs. "oooh don't step on the slippy puddle"

Oh I also read that they were here for a funeral so scattering ashes in open water would be in keeping with their cultural traditions.