Dangers of Ice Fishing
Tuesday, February 23, 2010 at 12:00AM
El Guapo in ice fishing

  1. Thin ice
  2. Hypothermia
  3. Running out of booze
  4. Shot in the head

An 18-year-old Minnesota man was ice fishing for the first time when he heard some small-caliber rifle firing on the lake shore. This kind of occurrence is not uncommon in Minnesota. He went back to tending his line and pulled in his first walleye. Moments later he was lying face down on the ice with blood coming out of his head.

(Via: Get Outdoors)

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