Jacob Schmidt and Russell Omann were trying to reach a fish house last Thursday night when their truck broke through the ice about 200 feet off shore. Omann climbed out through the passenger window and Schmidt got out through the rear window of the cab.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Not sure what this fascination Minnesotans have with driving on ice as the temperatures soar into the 40s.\u00a0 Maybe it’s overconfidence – the misplaced hubris of a people that considers itself winter people (even though, compared to North Dakotans, they may as well be from Nebraska or some such).<\/p>\n
Or maybe it’s that Minnesotans have a streak of “Let’s take a stupid chance”, a gene that bids them to tailgate on glare ice, or snowmobile at 80mph through unfamiliar woods, or vote for a pro wrestler.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
What do you get when you take Minnesota drivers – the types who tailgate at 60 mph on glare ice while telling their friend via cell phone “I’m a good driver”) – with ice? Wet, cold, very lucky idiots: Jacob Schmidt and Russell Omann were trying to reach a fish house last Thursday night when […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-midwest"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=309"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}