It may be cold tonight here in Wisconsin...

[Archae]

But I don't think it's cold enough for this! :rofl:

TV News Truck Breaks Through Ice

Even though the temperatures have fallen, the ice on many bodies of water is not thick enough to support vehicles.

A crew for a local television station drove its news truck onto a channel to Big Muskeo Lake Sunday and broke through the ice. Crews for WDJT-TV in Milwaukee were reportedly shooting a story about thin ice when the truck fell through. The driver reportedly mistook the channel for a road when the accident happened.

The truck was approximately 150 yards off the boat launch, according to a release issued by the City of Muskego Police Department.

http://www.themilwaukeechannel.com/news/10865643/detail.html#

[KitchenWitch]

1. I am laughing my ass off at that!

:rofl:

The blessed irony in that is just stupendous!

[Archae]

3. I actually feel sorry for that driver...

He is going to be the butt of so many jokes around the office for months.

"Hey Charlie, want some ice water?" :-)

[KitchenWitch]

4. Yeah, sucks to be him!

My gut aches from the laughter though.

[Deja Q]

22. And not in a good way!

:o
:wow:


Laughing here too, best article ever. Tragic, but great! Breaking news was never so funny!
:yoiks:

[Goblinmonger]

2. I hope their irony meters were well tuned

so that they could get a laugh about this. What kind of a jizzbag drives a heavy van on the ice to do a story about the ice being too thin. Get a brain, moran.

[JVS]

7. Someone who thought the clearing was a road

[Archae]

5. On it's way to KO!

Just sent the story to Keith Olbermann.

[Poiuyt]

6. There are always several vehicles a year that go through the ice here in Wisconsin

Though not with such irony. I wonder how WDJT-TV is going to be reporting this story?

[donheld]

8. That is just too funny

:rofl:

[dolo amber]

9. The TMJ4 morning crew were lauging their asses off over that

:D

[Archae]

10. NO doubt!

I can't wait until 5pm when the channel 12 news comes on, I hope they mention this story again.

[KitchenWitch]

11. This story made it as an aside in our local morning news!

:hi:

On edit: All the way in SoCal, no less. It probably bumped some cheesy story about a local D-list celebrity!

:rofl:

[Archae]

12. And I bet THEY were laughing their asses off too!

Now all we need is Keith Olbermann putting this on his "Oddball" segment, and that dumb driver will end up going into hiding somewhere. :rofl:

[dysfunctional press]

13. so- they bump a cheesy story...

for a story about cheeseheads?

[KitchenWitch]

15. apparently!

[Archae]

14. There's video at the link now.

The funniest part was at the end of the video, where Channel 58 didn't return a phone call. :rofl:

[billyskank]

16. I'm saying nothing

:7

[KitchenWitch]

17. But you are laughing your arse off!

;)

[billyskank]

18. Could you hear me?

:D

[KitchenWitch]

21. Why yes I could!

:D

[Bjornsdotter]

19. Natural Selection

....happens every year, usually not with news trucks. Seriously sucks for those guys.

Lots of snowmobiles here go through the ice, those puppies sink quick.

Cheers

[Deja Q]

20. Oops... but talk about breaking news!!

:rofl: