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The snow turned the world into a winter wonderland, but the ice has turned it into a death-trap for some.
We have already heard of young people who have tragically lost their lives falling through ice into the icy water of ponds and lakes after having, foolishly perhaps, thought the ice was stronger than it was.
Youngsters tend to feel they are immortal and some take risks that older people would not. In most cases this is part of the growing up and learning process. In some cases, it is sheer stupidity.
Take, for example, the CCTV footage of children foolishly crossing the frozen Oxford Canal. The police report that some of them, standing on the ice, were even trying to break it by bashing it with their feet! What luck they didn’t succeed.
Just last weekend when walking the dogs, we witnessed a car being repeatedly driven at speed by youths along an ice-covered back lane while other traffic was using the same road, Driving at speed was bad enough, but the car was towing another youth sitting on a plastic sled and this was careering wildly from side to side of the road. The lad could easily have been killed or maimed if the sled had moved in front of an oncoming car, and it was a miracle this didn’t happen.
And then another couple of youths were having a great deal of fun using the same stretch of icy road as a skid-pan and were having a rare old time braking and spinning their van in circles. They were having a great deal of fun, but they were also having it in the path of oncoming traffic.
While other children and youths have been having fun in various ways in the snow, some of those that took risks have tragically paid for it with their lives. One’s heart goes out to their families and friends, but that is little comfort to them now.
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The snow turned the world into a winter wonderland, but the ice has turned it into a death-trap for some.
We have already heard of young people who have tragically lost their lives falling through ice into the icy water of ponds and lakes after having, foolishly perhaps, thought the ice was stronger than it was.
Youngsters tend to feel they are immortal and some take risks that older people would not. In most cases this is part of the growing up and learning process. In some cases, it is sheer stupidity.
Take, for example, the CCTV footage of children foolishly crossing the frozen Oxford Canal. The police report that some of them, standing on the ice, were even trying to break it by bashing it with their feet! What luck they didn’t succeed.
Just last weekend when walking the dogs, we witnessed a car being repeatedly driven at speed by youths along an ice-covered back lane while other traffic was using the same road, Driving at speed was bad enough, but the car was towing another youth sitting on a plastic sled and this was careering wildly from side to side of the road. The lad could easily have been killed or maimed if the sled had moved in front of an oncoming car, and it was a miracle this didn’t happen.
And then another couple of youths were having a great deal of fun using the same stretch of icy road as a skid-pan and were having a rare old time braking and spinning their van in circles. They were having a great deal of fun, but they were also having it in the path of oncoming traffic.
While other children and youths have been having fun in various ways in the snow, some of those that took risks have tragically paid for it with their lives. One’s heart goes out to their families and friends, but that is little comfort to them now.
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