[deleted] t1_j8ngcng wrote on February 15, 2023 at 4:33 PM

Reply to comment by TheMobyDicks in Hey Vermonters, stay off the f*cking ice. by zombienutz1

Channel is almost never safe to walk on. It's moving water.

TheMobyDicks t1_j8rola0 wrote on February 16, 2023 at 1:57 PM

Yeah. Grew up there. Never saw anybody on the channel. But the lake was like a city for ice fisherman. This is a long time ago when winters were a lot colder and longer. Way before the digital age and everybody was into ice fishing.

[deleted] t1_j8rwv3d wrote on February 16, 2023 at 2:58 PM

I would blast top speed up the channel on a snowmobile when I was young and dumb.

TheMobyDicks t1_j8rysua wrote on February 16, 2023 at 3:11 PM

That's bad ass.

When I was a kid - in the early 80s - some drunks were smashing shantys with their truck in the middle of the night and they killed a guy sleeping in one.

What I did a couple times - admittedly completely asshole move and deserved for the fisherman to beat the shit outta me - was borrow my brother's Big Red Three-Wheeler (yeah, I'm that old) and ride down a line of tip-ups snapping them like twigs while doors busted open on shantys and some angry ass Vermonter would come flying out howling at me. I know it's bad but I'm laughing right now at it because that memory is so damn vivid. Good times.

Of course, as an adult, I got my jeep stolen in DC, so, y'know...karma.