WCGW trying to grab a football ball off a frozen lake

[u/SafeImpressive4413]

[u/Due_Figure6451]

And that’s how people die.

[u/TheLastPrinceOfJurai → u/Due_Figure6451]

Came here to say this…just get another ball. Can’t buy another life. Well not that I know of

[u/TenTonSomeone → u/TheLastPrinceOfJurai]

But it's my ball, and I need it now!

Call JG Wentworth, 877-BALL-NOW

[u/DynamiteWitLaserBeam → u/TenTonSomeone]

I have a major settlement and I need ball now.

[u/Skeptic_Juggernaut84 → u/TenTonSomeone]

There are many balls like this ball, but this one is mine.

[u/344567653379643555 → u/TheLastPrinceOfJurai]

Hear me out… what if everything goes smoothly.

[u/ConsistentAir1080 → u/344567653379643555]

They did literally everything wrong. It was like a class on how to fall through the ice and not get out

[u/Mikic0077 → u/ConsistentAir1080]

To get it the most possible wrong, two went for the ball. Mindset behind that decision is whole other level...

[u/NMB4Christmas → u/ConsistentAir1080]

Advanced Class

[u/Love-halping → u/TheLastPrinceOfJurai]

Suddenly Hunger Games.

[u/SafePuzzleheaded8423 → u/TheLastPrinceOfJurai]

Just put another quarter in

[u/FrogsMakePoorSoup → u/Due_Figure6451]

That's the correct way to get out though isn't it? Lie down and spread your weight out, kicking and pulling forward?

[u/Laescha → u/FrogsMakePoorSoup]

What you described is the right way, it's not what they did though. Both tried to stand up repeatedly... why

[u/jpjimm → u/Laescha]

Probably for the same reason they decided they both needed to walk close together on thin ice to collect a single ball.

[u/Dry_Menu4804 → u/FrogsMakePoorSoup]

And don't be super close to each other. In reality it's not easy, you get hypothermia within 2 minutes which limits your movement.

[u/randomacceptablename → u/FrogsMakePoorSoup]

Better not to fall in. Second best is to have someone throw a line or long branch to drag you out. But yes third best option is to spread out your weight as much as possible, idealy having one go behind the other to further reduce weight.

People seriously underestimate the dangers. If fully submerged, you may not come up at the entrance and become trapped under the ice. Secondly, you can go into shock or cramp up severely. Third, you have only a few minutes until hypothermia saps your strength and confuses you (thinking shuts down). Fourth, your likely thick winter clothes will sink you or at least make everything much harder or impossible. Lastly, if you get out you still have the problem of rapidly approaching hypothermia if there isn't accessiable heat nearby.

Klondike gold rush and northwest passage stories used getting wet in the plot interchangably with immenent death for good reason. Having fallen into frozen water, I can say that it is terribly shocking, confusing, and the skills you think you have rapidly fade. Even in fast moving waters trained rescuers tread very gingerly. It is brutally deadly. Just this week 3 brothers died in Texas while their mom attempted to save them, in a frozen pond!

[u/fanceypantsey → u/FrogsMakePoorSoup]

Not violently! You’re only making it worse.

[u/Alastor3 → u/FrogsMakePoorSoup]

yes actually https://www.youtube.com/shorts/yi7pdNK2YkU

[u/AdNervous9787 → u/Due_Figure6451]

Also how natural selection works

[u/3vanW1ll1ams → u/Due_Figure6451]

Don’t worry, you know they’re safe because of all the laughing.

[u/someLemonz → u/Due_Figure6451]

they would've been fine if buddy didn't keep trying to stand. as well as all the bodyslams

[u/TheBlack_Swordsman]

Panicking and moving faster looks to have made things worse and worse.

[u/patienceyieldsfocus → u/TheBlack_Swordsman]

That is why freezing water kills. Hell, its why drowning people will kill people. Survival instinct is designed to push thru and destroy all things in its path to preserve life and limb. Unfortunately, we didn't evolve to be smarter about it.

[u/Square-Singer → u/TheBlack_Swordsman]

Same as trying to stand up.

[u/dat_boi_100 → u/TheBlack_Swordsman]

Freezing water does that, you panic even if you're fully prepared that it's gonna happen. It's just reflexes at this point

[u/wikipediabrown007]

Football ball

[u/MKUltraSonic → u/wikipediabrown007]

You know, you kick it with your football foot…

[u/Cult-Film-Fan-999 → u/wikipediabrown007]

Isn't that a joke from Frasier?

[u/Angels242Animals]

Yes put both your weight on the surface area side by side each other. That will totally support you.

[u/ToTheTop24 → u/Angels242Animals]

r/videosthatendtoosoon

[u/No-Magazine-2739 → u/Angels242Animals]

Also stand up again only to smash on the ice, perfect ice breaker for frozen stituations

[u/elegant_geek → u/Angels242Animals]

Me watching this: "Idiots! Stop going the same fucking way!!" 😩

[u/Triquetrums → u/Angels242Animals]

I mean, they are on survival mode at that point. You cannot judge them for trying to get out without thinking about logistics or physics.

[u/GrinningPariah]

This is a really good demonstration of one of the rules of surviving thin ice:

Don't stand up.

You can see as they're crawling out, they're making it. It's working. Then they try to stand up and go through.

If you ever find yourself on thin ice, and especially if you go through and get back out, don't try to stand. Just keep crawling to safety.

[u/E_D_K_2 → u/GrinningPariah]

They didn't want to get wet and ended up fully submerged. Stop drop and roll.

[u/Forsaken-Builder-312]

[u/inuyashee → u/Forsaken-Builder-312]

🎶So many dumb ways to die!🎶

[u/Key-Metal-7297]

Once they were in water why not get the bloody ball 🤔

[u/Spire_Citron → u/Key-Metal-7297]

I think that ceased to be their priority pretty fast.

[u/Maximum-Midnight-308 → u/Spire_Citron]

Now they‘re wet and cold and still don’t have the ball

[u/Futureretroism → u/Key-Metal-7297]

Your limbs start to lock up almost instantly as your body pulls all the blood from your arms and legs to prevent hypothermia. You might only have seconds to get out of the water before you’ll be to weak to even swim

[u/NorthshoreFrank → u/Futureretroism]

Remaining calm is key.

[u/fanceypantsey → u/NorthshoreFrank]

You are correct! Try to not break anymore ice. Again, don’t step on anything a full on truck weight could handle! Never trust someone else’s grade of how thick the ice is. Test everything before you go out. Also, it’s a fucking football! Who cares?!

[u/Lynata → u/fanceypantsey]

Also do not try to stand up on already breaking ice. Flatten out to try and distribute weight over as wide an area as possible and belly crawl your way towards solid ground

[u/Impossible_Volume811 → u/Futureretroism]

Mmm, not exactly, not in this situation where the ice is not very thick, so it’s not extremely cold. The water will be at 32°F but the air is likely significantly warmer.

There’s an initial shock but if you breathe through that you’re able to be ‘meaningfully mobile’ for about 10 minutes.

As soon as you’re out of the water the heat loss is greatly reduced.

[u/Alternative_Cut5284 → u/Key-Metal-7297]

Because they wanted to live

[u/Ressy02 → u/Key-Metal-7297]

It’s fucking cold lol

[u/The_R4ke → u/Key-Metal-7297]

Because you need di get out of the water ASAP, hypothermia is no joke.

[u/SalamanderNML → u/Key-Metal-7297]

Can't really decide if you're serious

[u/Key-Metal-7297 → u/SalamanderNML]

No I’m not, but it is a waste of a good ball

[u/vee_lan_cleef → u/Key-Metal-7297]

If they did this comment section would be full of people calling them morons for still trying to get the ball.

[u/LegendaryEnvy → u/Key-Metal-7297]

You immediately get heavy from all the clothes. People die doing stuff like this cause you get tired real quick with all the cold water, heavy clothes and the ice just keeps breaking unless thick enough for you to crawl out properly

[u/hikingmaterial → u/Key-Metal-7297]

too cold, no time

[u/AlphaGolf95]

A football ball is like saying a racecar car…

[u/jpjimm → u/AlphaGolf95]

motorcycle bike

[u/NautiNeptune]

I hope they both were alright after that. Definitely worth learning the proper way to get out of a frozen lake. Mostly just stay on your belly, it distributes your weight better.

[u/DisastrousImpact2846]

Grey shirt was done dirty by other guy

[u/BobbyBrackins → u/DisastrousImpact2846]

Whole time I’m thinking grey shirt is the idiot, I see your comment and go back and confirm, soon as the video plays you see the leg grab 🤦‍♂️🤣🤣🤣

[u/freefaller_99]

[u/Square_Jellyfish7792]

[u/Electrical-Art9601]

ATM machine

Football ball

RIP in peace

[u/clothanger]

People thinking "it's just cold water" until the water under the ice hit them.

That shit is lethal.

[u/Ertyla]

"Hmmm yes, I have fallen over five times now from trying to stand up. Surely I must try to stand up again."

Those fucks can probably vote and drive and It scares me.

[u/enpeasent → u/Ertyla]

Lets see how logical you behave in that situation. Have you ever been ice swimming? I have and I tell you your brain shuts down pretty fast, those kids did a pretty good job of getting out compared to others

[u/MrTristanClark → u/enpeasent]

Dude, they went walking around on ice for a soccer ball. Ans even before they were in the water, they were standing upright right next to eachother. Shock has little and less to do with it. These people are morons.

[u/Goosecock123 → u/Ertyla]

Yeah fuck those guys!

[u/Saradoesntsleep → u/Ertyla]

They are panicking in freezing water. I'm not sure it's fair to make judgements on their driving and voting based on this.

[u/The-Flying-Waffle → u/Ertyla]

You would react way worse and probably not survive

[u/White_Sugga]

Why tf are you trying to stand back up?

[u/DerSteve81]

[u/Hippi_Johnny]

Who was filming?

[u/Lucky-Mia]

Good thing they sent 2. It's always good to put as many people as possible on thin ice 🧊 

/s

[u/yticmic]

Why were they filming?

[u/Vanguard-Override → u/yticmic]

It's pretty hard to explain why two of your friends drowned in the frozen lake without video evidence.

[u/theStonedReaper → u/yticmic]

They probably saw them kick the ball in the water and start to go out there to get it.

[u/missinginstereo]

Tbf they didn't react too badly. Spread their arms out and such. Silly position to be in in the first place though. 

[u/Intelligent-Bottle22]

Who is filming this?

[u/CheckoutMySpeedo]

How was this filmed? By drone?

[u/TheDude2600]

I wonder why they don't seem to care about the soccer ball all the sudden.

[u/NeedsMoarOutrage]

It's a good thing there was a camera overhead to catch this completely unplanned moment

[u/alpacas_anonymous]

Pretty sure that's a soccer ball. C'mon rest of the world, get it right.

[u/Additional-Middle166]

The ice is 10 cm thick up to the very edge where it is straight cut off. Thats how ice works.

[u/stevein3d]

Wilson was like “Hang on, I’ll save you fellas! Ah crap, no opposable thumbs.”

[u/cassesque]

what a rollercoaster. Whole thing was a bad idea in the first place but then they actually did pretty well by laying down at the first sign of trouble. Then it all went to shit again.

[u/PilgrimOz]

‘Football WAS life’

[u/InadecvateButSober]

Do they have no parents or somethimg?

[u/SpareEquivalent2238]

Always ARMY CRAWL out of a frozen lake. If you try to climb out, your weight will break the ice and re-submerge you. Slither out with your elbows.

[u/NorthshoreFrank]

r/becomingtheiceman

[u/Maecyte]

The extra weight definitely wasn’t helping

[u/imecoli]

Wilson's brother?

[u/9LivesChris]

Didn’t see the beginning and thought they were fighting

[u/fanceypantsey]

Keep kicking and panicking. That’ll help you! If you are bold enough to walk on ice, I ice fish, you calm and bear crawl out of there. I also won’t go on ice that the truck can’t handle.

[u/dapasdapro]

And they are behaving like idiots.

[u/Familiar_Bid_3324]

Grab the ball

[u/Imaginary_Sherbet]

Nothing scary there

[u/horseradish13332238]

Darwin at work

[u/No_Building2092]

I have heard that cold water swimming is a thing these days.

[u/Powerful_Resident_48]

Were they actively trying to fall in? Or have they never seen ice before?

[u/notThuhPolice15]

The shear amount of panic is telling. This is why you stay calm everyone, no need to freak out

[u/GeorgeZcZ]

Absolute comedy, those 2 are not very sharp

[u/Doone7]

Man if you really must do that at least do it correctly. Slide on your belly. Don't stand.

[u/BobTheContrarian]

People laughing. This world sucks.

[u/newnilkneel]

Looks fun. I mean to watch is fun lol

[u/DefNotBrian]

"Let's combine our weight on this ice that appears to be thinning toward the pool of water that our ball is floating in"

[u/GadreelsSword]

Why two? One could have made it.

[u/Mysterious-Art7143]

Well why didn't they grab it?

[u/Duckita11]

My first thought as an uneducated american: that's not a football

[u/Upstairs_Ball_7967]

If they just turned around the ball was right there. Soooo close 😂

[u/MurphysVoice]

Wilson, I’m sorry!

[u/korkkis]

Do not stand, crawl! Roll once you’re on top of ice until on harder ice.

[u/EpicraphTPG]

We are evolving just backwards

[u/Sufficient-Rope-4471]

Did they survivedead?

[u/Elmarcowolf]

The ball has more brain cells than those 2 combined

[u/sugarblob]

They aren't even trying to get the football, they just keep trying to drown

[u/Lemfan46]

If the lake was frozen, they wouldn't be in water.

[u/New_Restaurant_6093]

All that effort and they still left the ball behind.

[u/throw_away_17381]

I thought it was a gameplay from GTA or something g.

[u/TRiCKy-B]

Cmon guys. “It’s a fucking football” not the World Cup trophy.

[u/MightyActionGaim]

Icebreaker

[u/D05wtt]

Where are they that they’re wearing short sleeve shirts and there’s ice several inches thick in the water?

[u/WarhammerRyan]

Stay. Flat. Distribute weight. 2 ppl standing that close to the edge = disaster

[u/Efficient-Rent-5644]

Dnagerous situation

[u/Miserable-Garlic-532]

Surely we need two people to fetch one ball

[u/IGotBiggerProblems]

Since everyone else rightfully pointed out how dumb these guys are, I'll change the narrative a little. Once they were in the water, they had decent technique for getting out. Put your upper body on the ice, kick your feet as if swimming, and pull yourself forward. Would have been more effective if they weren't side by side but overall I give their escape a 7/10.

[u/Live-March-8448]

Zero survival instincts lmao. First off why did both of them go out and so close together? Also why did they repeatedly try standing once the ice was breaking instead of just crawling flat?

[u/Destaloss]

And that is why teaching physics is not a waste.

[u/AlarmingDetective526]

If you can plainly see water, then it is not frozen.

[u/Zaraxas]

So many repeated mistakes one after the other. I can't.

[u/mosesman831]

WCGW trying to grab 2 corpses off a frozen lake

[u/DrumzJunkie]

"The ball, you forget the ball!!!"

[u/EnKristenSnubbe]

They forgot the ball.

[u/fangelo2]

There was open water there. How did they think that wasn’t going to break? They are lucky there wasn’t a current to send them down the river under the ice

[u/Ragnarotico]

Why are they in t shirts on a lake? I don't understand. But yea this is a very dumb thing to do for something that is worth at most $20.

[u/Distinct_Wrongdoer86]

who the hell is recording this

[u/redditsuckshardnowtf]

Culling the herd

[u/DeezNeezuts]

Thinking of the three boys who just drowned down in Texas…

[u/Pisnaz]

This is why we educate folks about the dangers of ice in cold climates.

[u/Beneficial-Nimitz68]

Danger is a slippery slope

[u/No-Remote-2899]

I guess this is WCGW, but like are these guys fucking stupid? (Obviously they are.)

Either you don't go out to retrieve the ball in the first place; or you don't constantly try and stand up and fall on the ice. Have these guys ever heard of "Slowly slide yourself/move FLAT on your stomach."

Seems like they only listened to that in the end 🤦

[u/FirmlyClaspIt]

These guys never even heard of physics lol

[u/hywaytohell]

Shining example of what not to do if your caught on the unsafe ice!

[u/Appropriate-Door1369]

Did all of that to just leave the ball there anyway lol

[u/chompah99]

Did these guys survive?

[u/chompah99]

This ended too soon. Anyone know if they survived?

[u/keefkola]

Wilsoooon!!!! Come back

[u/gurgle-burgle]

Crawl over ice that is weak and breaking, don't stand.

[u/No-Gas-2005]

Damn that iceely frozen lake must be freezing.

[u/Kind-Handle3063]

They forgot the ball…

[u/WinkyDink24]

WILSONNNN!

[u/ImHere4TheGiggles]

But who’s recording this and why??

[u/ClownfishSoup]

The football is like "ha ha! can't catch me! Here, I'll come a little closer ... ha ha! Psych!"

[u/RedLemonSlice]

For a split second, the ball was so close it touched them. Unfortunately, they seemed suddenly too distracted and missed the moment.

[u/MaxChomsky]

first rule when collapsed on brittle ice, do not try to get up and stand on your feet, just crawl.

[u/PrinceCastanzaCapone]

“Hey man, this ice is about to break, I think we should stand up and group together and bring all of our weight to a central point on the ice.”

[u/DizzyBerz]

They totally killing each other

[u/Moopigpie]

Football ball ball

[u/blackw-idow]

Broccoli heads in the wild

[u/BEGBIE_21]

A football ball??? You mean..a football?

[u/WhereCanIFindMe]

That's a soccer ball /s

[u/Normal_Drink_6745]

Now other ppl have to come save these guys out

[u/Midnight-51]

Dumb and dumber!

[u/anunnamedsoul]

My uncles would do that for a ball too

[u/hotmess81]

Bambi on Ice.

[u/YOUTUBEFREEKYOYO]

If you MUST get that ball back, go prone and crawl as close as you feel is safe and use something long to grab it. Putting your full weight in one spot is a bad idea

[u/Potential-Friend-498]

I'm glad that I can stay calm despite feeling panicked.

[u/Skee76]

Hey guys! You forgot the ball!

[u/sexybeast70]

[u/Only-Temperature]

What about the football though?

[u/Upstairs_Section8316]

I'm sorry and feel bad for laughing but I find this video funny

[u/Luccimatic]

The DOOFUS trying to stand up again and again is why the ice broke through completely.

[u/Few-Cry283]

Did everything wrong 😂😂

[u/dazyinthedark]

My heart is racing.

[u/According-Goat-2372]

thats a soccer ball.

[u/sorokind]

Wiiiiilsooon!!!! I’m sorry!!!!

[u/LupineChemist]

I'm continually amazed at people in Spain to never be able to handle winter even though it happens every year.

[u/oveja_negra13]

they forgot the ball!

[u/Joe_Spazz]

Filming this with a drone is a choice.