Boston first responders converged on Jamaica Pond this morning after the discovery of a seemingly abandoned bicycle on the shore with footprints leading onto the ice - but none coming back.
But police soon found the bike owner safe and sound - and dry - on the other side of the pond. Capt. John Greland at E-13 reported around 10:45:
Located person who owns the bike, she is OK, said left bike and walked across the pond and didn’t come back. Located the person by an ID number on bike. Units clearing out.
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Yikes
By erik g
Fri, 01/12/2018 - 10:54am
That explains the helicopters this morning. Hope everybody is all right.
Dear everyone: when it is 50 degrees for two straight days, it is not a good idea to go out on the ice. Hell, even after it's been -4 degrees for a week, it's still not a good idea to go out on the ice solo.
Nice
By bosguy22
Fri, 01/12/2018 - 10:57am
Way to victim blame!
Cynical joke, or just stupid?
By Jeff F
Fri, 01/12/2018 - 11:15am
I'm guessing the first, but not so sure about your upvoters.
Victim of what?
By Beanzzz
Fri, 01/12/2018 - 12:37pm
How is this person a victim?
Who is the victim?
By Lisa
Fri, 01/12/2018 - 3:39pm
Who is the victim?
I'm going to go out on a rope here
By Waquiot
Fri, 01/12/2018 - 2:17pm
I somewhat disagree with your assumption, in that it takes longer for water temperature to change than it does air temperature.
It is the same way on the other side. Two days of a sudden deep freeze does not make it safe to walk on an icy pond. A week would do it. Two weeks definitely. On the other end of the equation, a few days of temps 10C above freezing would not necessarily mean the ice is unsafe.
Of course, better to be safe than sorry, so in the case of Jamaica Pond, I wouldn't feel too safe walking across even in the coldest of weather, but a shallower location like the lagoon in the Public Garden I would do today.
Original post updated
By adamg
Fri, 01/12/2018 - 11:41am
The ice held.
Wow
By FootPad
Fri, 01/12/2018 - 12:01pm
That seems like a very self-absorbed, irresponsible, and clue-less person. Imagine if a responder was injured somehow investigating these tracks to nowhere.
They're pretty careful
By Gary C
Fri, 01/12/2018 - 12:06pm
Yes someone could have been injured, but they typically have the right equipment for these rescues. (Did you see that video last week of authorities rescuing a goose that got stuck in the ice?)
No, but
By FootPad
Fri, 01/12/2018 - 12:10pm
No, but I did see (maybe 1.5 - 2 weeks ago) a firetruck stopped by the parking area behind the pond; firefighters were watching someone (who didn't appear to be a firefighter) walking across the ice towards them.
Firefighters do routine
By tofu
Fri, 01/12/2018 - 2:24pm
Firefighters do routine rescue training on local ponds.
No. Just no
By Scauma
Fri, 01/12/2018 - 1:06pm
This young lady did nothing wrong, she didn't ask for the cavalry to come looking for her. Of course it's great they did because 'you never know' but the young lady in question didn't go out looking to cause a raucous.
Correct,
By whyaduck
Fri, 01/12/2018 - 2:20pm
but what she did was nevertheless odd.
By your logic...
By anon
Fri, 01/12/2018 - 2:27pm
... she’s simply inconsiderate. Got it.
Not 100% sure about that
By Bob Leponge
Fri, 01/12/2018 - 2:59pm
I believe the owners of the pond in question (i.e., we), have forbidden people from walking on the ice.
She dumped the bike. That's littering.
By CopleyScott17
Fri, 01/12/2018 - 3:53pm
And shady.
Amen
By Bugs Bunny
Fri, 01/12/2018 - 1:24pm
Similar to the Worcester Cold Storage Fire in 1999. Those homeless people that started the fire should've told the firemen that no one needed to be rescued in the building.
Important note
By SwirlyGrrl
Sat, 01/13/2018 - 12:35am
The people who accidentally started the cold storage fire were legally intellectually disabled and terrified.
There was also no possible way for them to know that "no one needed to be rescued", as it was a very large building with a complicated layout and a magnet for people such as themselves (and they were intellectually disabled). The FD would not have assumed that it was empty.
How so? The only thing they
By tofu
Fri, 01/12/2018 - 2:26pm
How so? The only thing they did was leave a bike looking abandoned and implying that someone didn't come back from the ice. Very knee-jerky of you.
Glad the cyclist is fine, but
By anon
Fri, 01/12/2018 - 12:58pm
Glad the cyclist is fine, but of course disappointed that people put their lives at risk because of one person's foolish and thoughtless actions. I hope the cyclist has learned something from this.
Dear child ...
By anon
Fri, 01/12/2018 - 2:23pm
That was when I was carrying you.
Lolz at the knee-jerk
By tofu
Fri, 01/12/2018 - 2:23pm
Lolz at the knee-jerk reactions here. Water freezes. It's been cold enough for that. People have been playing hockey, fishing, and skating on Spy Pond on Arlington for two weeks now. Yes, be careful and be ready to fall through.
The bike owner has a sense...
By Lee
Fri, 01/12/2018 - 4:54pm
... of curiosity and adventure and maybe early spring fever. Other people assumed doom and gloom. It’s not like she put out an illegal space saver and went off hiking in her flip flops up Mount Washington.
I don’t get it.
By Sally
Sat, 01/13/2018 - 2:45pm
If she walked across the pond, weren’t there footprints AFTER said hole in the ice? How did they disappear? Scratching my head here.
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