36 Cars Fall Through Icy Lake at Wisconsin Fishing Tournament(NewsCore) - Fishermen competing in an ice fishing event in Wisconsin got a shock over the weekend when 36 of their cars plunged through the ice and into Lake Winnebago, officials said Sunday.
"We had some cars that got wet," a dispatcher with the Winnebago County Sheriff's Department told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.
"We had cars parked on the ice like it was a parking lot. Usually they do park out on the ice. That's not unusual. It's just that they parked too close together. It was too much for the ice conditions this year."
The ice was roughly one-foot thick where the cars broke through on Saturday. Authorities had warned competitors about the dangers of parking on the lake.
Luckily for their owners, the water was not too deep where the cars went through the ice and they were able to be towed out, the newspaper reported.
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