Could be a Minnesota thing. The lose a few every year who drive their snowmobiles into open water and occasionally head-on into each other, the latter with a half mile or more of frozen lake in all directions in which to take evasive action. About a year ago some potential arrestee near Moorhead, MN was being chased by police. He abandoned his car and dashed across what proved to be the not really frozen Buffalo River and disappeared about half way to the other side.

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