01-10-2013, 09:02 PM
While I was fishing at Mantua yesterday, I was surprised by the sounds of a group of boisterous teenage boys walking onto the ice. They were in typical highschool clothes (shorts and thin jackets) and were accompanied by two adult men. Had to be some kind of field trip, but to what purpose I cannot even guess.
Anyway, the whole group of them proceeded to wander about, kicking in previously drilled holes (one of them stuck his whole arm down one) and engaging in horseplay of one kind or another.
The sight of some of them jumping vigorously up and down while as many as 15 others crowded in made me wonder how many I was about to watch drown. The math wheels in my head told me that 18 young men clustered together had to weigh 3,000 pounds - minimum.
So I guess that tells us Mantua ice is safe, huh?
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Anyway, the whole group of them proceeded to wander about, kicking in previously drilled holes (one of them stuck his whole arm down one) and engaging in horseplay of one kind or another.
The sight of some of them jumping vigorously up and down while as many as 15 others crowded in made me wonder how many I was about to watch drown. The math wheels in my head told me that 18 young men clustered together had to weigh 3,000 pounds - minimum.
So I guess that tells us Mantua ice is safe, huh?
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