4 former New Trier HS students presumed dead in Wisconsin canoe accident

[mahatmakanejeeves]

Print: Canoe accident claims 4 pals from North Shore.

When I was that age, there were times when this would have seemed like a good idea to me too. I don't know how I ever survived being 21.

Hat tip, the Newseum, where an article about this was on one of the front pages on display.

4 former New Trier students presumed dead in Wisconsin canoe accident

By Duaa Eldeib, Robert McCoppin and Susan Berger
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January 4, 2016, 8:32 PM

Christopher McQuillen had been home in Winnetka over the holidays when he told his father he was going to Wisconsin with some friends. ... The exchange was so routine that McQuillen's father, Joe, said he didn't remember the last things he and his son said to each other.

But Sunday, the elder McQuillen said, he received a call from a relative of his son's friend "explaining that he was lost, and they weren't sure what that meant."

McQuillen soon learned his 21-year-old son had disappeared after taking a canoe out on an icy lake in southern Wisconsin about 2:30 a.m. Sunday.

"He was just gone. He kind of slipped through our fingers like water," McQuillen said by phone Monday. "But he knew he was loved."

[Scuba]

1. Very sad. Gotta wonder why one would go winter canoeing at 2:30 in the morning.

Odds are alcohol was involved.

[dembotoz]

2. tragic but still.....dumb flatlanders

[murielm99]

3. RIP

I am sorry for the families.

I sympathize. I don't know how I survived those years, either. I did some DUMB things.