Only in Wisconsin . . . .

Credit: WSAU

From today’s Janesville Gazette:

By ASSOCIATED PRESS   Tuesday, February 7, 2012 – 6:37 a.m.

LITTLE SUAMICO—Seven men and a boy were rescued by airboat after they became stranded by a huge crack in the ice of Green Bay that kept them from reaching shore. While the eight were brought back to land, two other ice fishermen declined rescue and decided to stay and fish.