Driver Refuses To Pay A

[emmie]

toll, why on earth would you risk it

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/driving-on-thin-ice--motorist-risks-life-by-crossing-1km-wide-frozen-river-in-their-car-121607139.html

[emmie]

talk about derring do

[Buenchico]

If you know that the ice is reasonably thick, there's very little risk involved. After all, we used to have 'frost fairs' on the Thames where an elephant was led across the ice (in 1814) and people even made fires on the ice to cook food for their customers.

[spudqueen]

I remember how mortified I felt when on holiday in North Wales, when I was in my teens, and we'd just crossed the toll bridge, near Barmouth I think it was, and the guy made a gesture with his hand to say 'come forward' and my Dad stuck his foot down and sped past him. We were all screaming at him to stop. He said he thought the man meant for him to just carry on his way, but he would have meant for my Dad to stop and pay the toll! Needless to say we didn't use that bridge for the rest of the holiday!

[jno]

Chris, if the river only froze at the weekend, I don't know how you could be sure how thick the ice is. But maybe Mongolians have a sixth sense about these things.

[LazyGun]

I certainly would not risk it :) Foolhardy behaviour it seems to me.

It used to scare me when I was a kid,walking out and braving the ice on our village pond, even when we had some souls mad enough to skate on it! ;)

[emmie]

its hardly the local pond, i wouldn't have done this, but then again i would have paid the toll,

[youngmafbog]

Ultimate in meanness. Is he Northern?

[emmie]

Mongolian i think, is that North enough?

[EDDIE51]

This is Inner Mongolia the temperature is going to be about 30 deg below zero, that ice is going to be 6 ft thick at least, well able to support the weight of the car.

[emmie]

the car looks like a Dinky toy on the ice.