Will insurance cover this one??

[Gray Ghost]

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The previous link didn't work, use this link and then select 24L.pdf

ftp://www.laconiadailysun.com/Laconiapdf/2008/1/

[SIKSUKR]

Is there a winter captain bonehead award?It would have to go to this guy.

MIKE PANDELENA speaks with Gilford Police officers after having narrowly escaped from his 2007 Eddy Bower Edition Ford Explore as broke through the ice and sunk to the bottom of Lake Winnipesaukee. Pandelena said he drove the 400 foot distance onto the ice in order to check whether or not it was safe for fishing.
What?

[hilltopper]

Originally Posted by Gray Ghost

Try again

The previous link didn't work, use this link and then select 24L.pdf

ftp://www.laconiadailysun.com/Laconiapdf/2008/1/

Apparently you need a password to view this site?

[Skip]

Here you go....

[christo1]

This may be a dumb question but where did all the damage come from?

[wifi]

Actually, I think Mr Pandelena should have a float switch, that automatically lowers the windows once the water level reaches a certain point... No more close calls

[riverat]

Pictures say it all!

[DRH]

Originally Posted by riverat

Pictures say it all!

Excellent photos, Riverat!

[Grant]

Outstanding photos -- and the article explains the extensive damage. Towing it from the sinking point (thin ice) to the raising point (thicker ice) no doubt required dragging the vehicle over a BUNCH of rocks (anyone who has dove Winnipesaukee can attest to the, uh, presence of said rocks...). I suppose we can all agree on the upside -- no one was injured or killed, and the vehicle was retrieved relatively quickly.

Be careful out there, folks.

And...why not walk?

[Grant]

Originally Posted by christo1

This may be a dumb question but where did all the damage come from?

Could be a combination of factors -- going through the ice, landing on rocks on the bottom, being lifted from those rocks, being hauled out of the ice...regardless, it certainly took a beating!

[This'nThat]

Originally Posted by christo1

This may be a dumb question but where did all the damage come from?

The Winnipesaukee sea monster? Little fishes with attitudes (and tiny sledgehammers)? Water pressure at the deep Winnipesaukee depths? Hail during the thunder-snow? Just some options.

[Grant]

I don't see any lift bags. How was it brought to the surface? How deep there?

[fatlazyless]

Mass. man's SUV fished out of Big Lake

By Adam Drapcho
The Laconia Daily Sun

GILFORD - It took Gulbicki and Bertocchi towing companies two days to extricate a 2007 Ford Explorer from Saunders Bay, but they did so late yesterday afternoon. The SUV broke through the ice Monday afternoon, at about 1:15 p.m. It's owner, Michael Pandelina, of Andover, Mass., had driven the 4,700-lb vehicle onto the ice, he said Monday, to check the ice condition in preparation of a fishing trip he planned for the coming weekend.

He said he heard the ice cracking and stopped, and then the front end of the vehicle began to sink. Pandelina narrowly escaped through the driver's side window before his vehicle completely submerged, sinking some 35 feet before reaching the lake bottom.

Charles Gulbicki, of Gulbicki Towing, said the ice was about two-inches thick where Pandelina's vehicle went through, and so it was unsafe for the recovery crew to attempt to pull it up there. After a diver attached a cable to the Explorer, workers for the wrecker company used chain saws to cut a path in the ice to shore, where a tow truck with a winch dragged the vehicle about 250 feet.

Once closer to shore, beams were positioned under the Explorer, and it was dragged up the planks and onto the ice, then up onto the truck's bed. By the end of he journey, every body panel of the vehicle was crumpled and most windows were smashed.

Gulbicki said it was a two-day-long effort to remove the vehicle, and he was quite relieved when the truck was finally secured on his tow truck.

If Pandelina had not arrainged to have his vehicle removed from the waters of Lake Winnipesaukee, he could be facing a fine of $500 per day that he left it there under the state's water protection laws.

Laconia Daily Sun
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Got to wonder how this incident gets reported on his insurance, how many points, and what it does to his future Massachusetts insurance bills?
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Just thought of this one...hey Buddy Boy...iffin a woman passenger in the backseat didn't make it out, he could be running for the US Senate from Massachusetts! .....budda-bing!...ugh...shame on me!

Before all you "Live Free or Die-ers" start bangn' on Senator Ted Kennedy (age 37 at the time) for his July 18, 1969 midnight drive off of Chappaquidik Bridge on Martha's Vinyard, resulting in the drowning death of Mary Jo Kopechne, age 28....did you all know that NEW HAMPSHIRE has a similar skeleton rattln' around in its' historical closet.

H Styles Bridges, 1898-1961, NH Governor and US Senator, and most powerfull senator for NH in the 20th century. It has long been rumored that he was involved in the 1936, hit & run death of 36 year old Della Call, when she was struck and killed by a large black vehicle that hit her after dark, by the side of the road, and then took off. He went on serve in the US Senate until 1961, and served as the minority leader. He was also involved in blackmailing a Wyoming US Senator who later committed suicide. (source wikipedia)

So, NH is not exactly an all boy scouts and Senator John E Sununu, nice-guys-come-in-first, type of a place, either!

[wifi]

Originally Posted by fatlazyless

....what it does to his future Massachusetts insurance bills?

and will Mass require an intelligence test to get insurance ?

[secondcurve]

Now that Mike knows the ice isn't safe, how will he get his fishing gear out there this weekend?