# Woman jumps into frozen lake with predictable results. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 20, 2018, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woman-jumps-into-frozen-lake-with-predictable-results/824827 "2018-11-20T00:32:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2018, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woman-jumps-into-frozen-lake-with-predictable-results/824827/1 "2018-11-20T00:32:21Z")
Yes, she’s a blonde. Bleach is toxic stuff. Kills brain cells. 😉 I’ve been around frozen lakes most of my life. It’s always been very obvious that the water isn’t moving. It even sounds different. Frozen water is dead calm and very quiet. Can anyone else imagine making this mistake? Anyway, I’m glad she didn’t seriously injure herself. She hits that ice pretty hard. Foot wrapped in gauze. But no cast. > **[ItemFix - Social Video Factory](https://www.itemfix.com/?r=ll)** > > Social Video Factory ---
**Author:** ![Stuntman\_Mike](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stuntman_mike/32/334_2.png) [@Stuntman\_Mike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stuntman_Mike)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2018, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woman-jumps-into-frozen-lake-with-predictable-results/824827/2 "2018-11-20T00:44:49Z")
Idiot deserves to be paralyzed. Hope she realizes that, and never does something so stupid again. ---
**Author:** ![K364](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/k364/32/5_2.png) [@K364](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/K364)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2018, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woman-jumps-into-frozen-lake-with-predictable-results/824827/3 "2018-11-20T01:02:35Z")
Vodka. ---
**Author:** ![boffking](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/858c86/32.png) [@boffking](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/boffking)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2018, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woman-jumps-into-frozen-lake-with-predictable-results/824827/4 "2018-11-20T01:08:20Z")
She’s lucky she didn’t break through it. ---
**Author:** ![Aspidistra](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspidistra/32/3894_2.png) [@Aspidistra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspidistra)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2018, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woman-jumps-into-frozen-lake-with-predictable-results/824827/5 "2018-11-20T01:23:52Z")
Yeah, I totally thought “predictable result” was going to be “crashes through ice, fails to make swimming motions due to shock of frozen water, sinks like stone”. Happy to be proven wrong. No surprise to find the video makers turn out to be Russians. Dudes be crazy there. ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2018, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woman-jumps-into-frozen-lake-with-predictable-results/824827/6 "2018-11-20T01:27:27Z")
She did make a few cracks in the ice. 😉 That’s some thick ice. Might be able to ice skate on it. Lakes don’t freeze that hard in my state. They ice over but it’s thin ice and easily broken. ---
**Author:** ![Napier](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ce73a5/32.png) [@Napier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Napier)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2018, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woman-jumps-into-frozen-lake-with-predictable-results/824827/7 "2018-11-20T01:27:54Z")
I can imagine making the mistake. There appears to be a hole chipped through the ice around a ladder that we catch a glimpse of. I can imagine the thought she’d break through the ice. There’s quite a range of what can seem like a good idea at the time. I doubt she deserves to be paralyzed., and certainly not for misreading the situation. Not many people deserve that. ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2018, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woman-jumps-into-frozen-lake-with-predictable-results/824827/8 "2018-11-20T01:41:48Z")
Yes, I’m glad she’s ok. Sometimes foolish actions can end very badly. This time she got off lucky. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2018, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woman-jumps-into-frozen-lake-with-predictable-results/824827/9 "2018-11-20T01:47:26Z")
Technically, she didn’t jump _into_ the lake. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![excavating\_for\_a\_mind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e8c25b/32.png) [@excavating\_for\_a\_mind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/excavating_for_a_mind)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2018, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woman-jumps-into-frozen-lake-with-predictable-results/824827/10 "2018-11-20T02:32:34Z")
I’m confused. What’s the gauze for? ---
**Author:** ![Latimera](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/latimera/32/497_2.png) [@Latimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Latimera)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2018, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woman-jumps-into-frozen-lake-with-predictable-results/824827/11 "2018-11-20T02:40:13Z")
> [@Stuntman\_Mike](#): > > Idiot deserves to be paralyzed. Hope she realizes that, and never does something so stupid again. She deserves to be paralysed? Seriously? What an awful thing to say! ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2018, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woman-jumps-into-frozen-lake-with-predictable-results/824827/12 "2018-11-20T02:45:52Z")
Man, that is a Sweet Hat! I can watch that over and over again to see those Hat! ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2018, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woman-jumps-into-frozen-lake-with-predictable-results/824827/13 "2018-11-20T02:47:03Z")
People do dumb stuff. She doesn’t deserve permanent injury. I, too hope she’s smarter for it. We all got up to stupid antics when we were younguns. ---
**Author:** ![Velocity](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/velocity/32/18006_2.png) [@Velocity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Velocity)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2018, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woman-jumps-into-frozen-lake-with-predictable-results/824827/14 "2018-11-20T03:00:51Z")
Better broken bone than drowned dead. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2018, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woman-jumps-into-frozen-lake-with-predictable-results/824827/15 "2018-11-20T03:02:05Z")
In Russia, water splash YOU! ---
**Author:** ![Aspidistra](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspidistra/32/3894_2.png) [@Aspidistra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspidistra)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2018, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woman-jumps-into-frozen-lake-with-predictable-results/824827/16 "2018-11-20T03:16:49Z")
apparently not… ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2018, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woman-jumps-into-frozen-lake-with-predictable-results/824827/17 "2018-11-20T03:36:31Z")
I gotta admit there’s a cartoonish element to a human cannonball on ice. Looney Tunes couldn’t have drawn that any better. ---
**Author:** ![Rick\_Kitchen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rick_kitchen/32/522_2.png) [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2018, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woman-jumps-into-frozen-lake-with-predictable-results/824827/18 "2018-11-20T03:45:26Z")
She’s lucky she didn’t break her kneecaps. ---
**Author:** ![Wesley\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wesley_clark/32/20581_2.png) [@Wesley\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wesley_Clark)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2018, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woman-jumps-into-frozen-lake-with-predictable-results/824827/19 "2018-11-20T03:51:17Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > She’s lucky she didn’t break her kneecaps. People are invincible in their 20s, isn’t this common knowledge? ---
**Author:** ![Velocity](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/velocity/32/18006_2.png) [@Velocity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Velocity)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2018, 4:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woman-jumps-into-frozen-lake-with-predictable-results/824827/20 "2018-11-20T04:57:49Z")
I have a GQ question: There have been many instances of warm people jumping into freezing ice-lake water and emerging seemingly unharmed. Aren’t they supposed to get cold-water shock that would kill them? [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woman-jumps-into-frozen-lake-with-predictable-results/824827.md?page=2)