WI makes national news again

[SkinBasket]

A 500-pound man stuck in the St. Croix River in Wisconsin after a tubing accident was rescued Tuesday morning, 12 hours after he fell into the water.
The 39-year-old, whose identity hasn’t been released, was recovering in an area hospital after a nearly 12-hour rescue effort by the Coast Guard and sheriffs.
The man wound up lodged in a rocky, shallow patch of the St. Croix, in Grantsburg, Wis., after his tube apparently deflated during an expedition, according to local TV and newspaper reports.
While he was trying to get out of the water and walk along the shore, he apparently suffered chest pains and a possible heart attack and fell into the river, the local media reported.
The river conditions and the man’s weight complicated the effort to get him out.





I'm sure a story like this won't reinforce certain stereotypes about the people in this part of the country...

[oregonpackfan]

In my younger years in that part of the state, I and friends used to go tubing on the Apple River. That was usually a pretty good time.

One time, the current was a bit swift due to a heavy rain the night before. My date was just lying in her tube with her legs in the water. One of her legs hit a submerged log and she ended up with a leg fracture.

Needless to say, that put a real damper on the trip.

[Joemailman]

Hard to find a good inner tube these days.

[the_idle_threat]

[Freak Out]

A 500 pounder would need a very large tube!

[retailguy]

A 500 pounder would need a very large tube!

tractor tube?

[digitaldean]

That's what happens when you pile too many Twinkies on you when you're tubing!

[Harlan Huckleby]

I hope the fat man gets another tube and goes back out again.

A 500 pounder getting some sun and activity is a beautiful thing.

[Joemailman]

Easy for you to say. You're not one of the emergency workers who had to try to get him out of the river.

[Harlan Huckleby]

Easy for you to say. You're not one of the emergency workers who had to try to get him out of the river.

well, maybe some engineering issues. technicalities.

[GBRulz]

Uh, sir? Your partner? She's a he

Gannett Wisconsin Newspapers

FOND DU LAC -- Two men received disorderly conduct citations early Wednesday morning after police caught them engaged in a sex act outside a downtown business.


The recipient of the sex act thought the man with him was a woman and officers “did not have the heart” to tell him otherwise, said Major Kevin Lemke of the Fond du Lac Police Department.

An officer patrolling downtown around 2:15 a.m. saw the men engaged in a sexual act in the doorway of a business on Main Street north of Sheboygan Street, Lemke said.

The man told officers other men had shown interest that night in the man who officers said often “poses as a woman” and has feminine features, Lemke said.

“The victim did not know the guy was a man,” Lemke said. “Nonetheless, that is an improper place to be doing that kind of act, regardless of gender.”

Filed by The Reporter of Fond du Lac

[packinpatland]

We're all 'visiting' in Oct., don't be telling us this stuff!

[oregonpackfan]

We're all 'visiting' in Oct., don't be telling us this stuff!

That's right, PPL! Cross Fond du Lac off of our guided tour.

[GBRulz]

And some freaks from outside of Wausau.........

Don't tease your hair with a pellet gun

Don't invite cops in while rolling a joint, either

Gannett Wisconsin Newspapers


FENWOOD – A 19-year-old Marshfield woman was shot in the forehead with a pellet gun on Thursday evening by a man who thought the gun was unloaded, authorities said this morning.


The woman went to Saint Joseph’s Hospital in Marshfield, where a pellet was found under her skin, Marathon County sheriff’s Lt. Dale Wisnewski said. The pellet did not penetrate the skull.

The man, Michael Coleman, 21, of Stratford, told police that he was trying to blow her hair with a blast of air from the gun at about 6:30 p.m. at Coleman’s home at 1936 Big Rapids Road, Wisnewski said.

When deputies arrived at his home, Coleman told them to come inside. Deputies found him rolling a marijuana cigarette, Wisnewski said.

Coleman was arrested and referred to the Marathon County district attorney’s office on tentative charges of recklessly endangering safety and possession of marijuana.

[KYPack]

I see Marshfield hasn't changed much over the years.