Wandering 'beast' of a bog wreaks havoc on Minnesota lake

A floating bog - the size of three football fields - broke off from shoreline late last week and started wandering on North Long Lake in the Brainerd area. kare11.tv/2gKip3d

[@SirFloofy001]

"put it back where it belongs" my friend its a floating bog, this is the natural lifecycle of bogs and their main way of spreading throughout a region. They aren't usually this big no but 'where it belongs' is wherever it floats. Thats the danger of living near bogs, sometimes they decide to visit.

[@gregorybrown8756]

That's probably some pretty sound advice,,,,, untill it destroys your own property.

[@chouseification]

@@gregorybrown8756 nobody cares about your dock...

[@jimsonjohnson3761]

Yea until it blocks a waterway or bridge. People live in the world. Bogs don't run it we do. So the bog will be moved by us.

[@bojcio]

@@jimsonjohnson3761 Boy do we not run the world at all. We are completely at the mercy of nature and it reminds us of that fact all the time with tornadoes, floods, quakes, famines, droughts, volcanoes, landslides... floating bogs etc etc. It kicks our ass all the time. We are ants.

[@72marshflower15]

I’d build a floating house in the middle of it and just go where it goes..

[@TGWazoo1]

Has MSNBC blamed this on global warming yet?

[@DD-sw1dd]

Sure they will find some way to blame it on cow farts

[@eligebrown8998]

Move the bog to where you want it and anchore it down. Theres a town in Alaska and its became a tradition to move it around with boats.

[@user-vd5vv1kj2h]

not only in alaska

[@justinbyers5168]

Buckeye lake Ohio has its own bog similar to this one. It literally has its own habitat with birds that can’t be found anywhere else. Take care of it!! If it needs moved you’ll need about 20 boats. 15 to move it and 5 to glide it where you want it.

[@boblordylordyhowie]

Could work out how big it was, how many London Buses is it?

[@bruceschneider4928]

3 football pitches.

[@Chris-sf7ug]

"Susan get the bog anchoring permits out we got a live one!"

[@jk5805]

No comments ? Well ...

[@stztrt9288]

reminds me of my stepmother

[@eddiebrown1741]

It would be cool if they would give the landmass value in a metric that makes sense saying 3 acres is easier than saying 3 football fields or 30 basketball courts. why are newscasters so silly? How many school busses big is the floating lake bog?

[@levii4146]

Because average news watchers are too dumb to know how big an acre really is. They want to use something that is relatable and "easier" convey to the brainrot viewers

[@benjaminrobinson9140]

why dont they anchor it?

[@mastervz4806]

Would be sick to build a football field on it.

[@Treebirdz]

Had to look it up when they mentioned it on friends at the table.

[@armageddonready4071]

Get it where you want before water levels drop

[@valdawilson1169]

Came here from Just The Gist

[@ella_reyne1]

Sammmme

[@snoozeflu]

What the heck is a bog

[@moondogmcblackfoot]

“It’s a wild beast.”

[@dakmycat3688]

It’s a Beast. But In reality it’s just Nature 😙

[@itsmilan4069]

0:29 anything but actual measurements 🤣 damn

[@Jeff250lbc]

Anything but the metric system.

[@Eighty8Fitter]

Get about 100 boats with some high horsepower to push it back into place

[@arklinmike]

Kind of reminds me of "Creepshow: The Raft". At least it's just the docks that were lost....😉

[@benfranklin3963]

Part of the environment they will just have to get use to.

[@Eighty8Fitter]

Get about 100 boats to push it back

[@jeromethemechanic6871]

Bog beats boats.

[@delhog6161]

Funny really I had a similar problem this morning after I used the bog in my bathroom I tried sinking a floater and that wouldn’t budge either 😮

[@scottlarue5304]

Bogs form by lakes that fill in with peat and sphagnum moss. This isn’t really that special.

[@belamoure]

Bomb it as a merri practice for junior bombers teams.

[@mattywho8485]

Yeah... "prayers" that'll help.

[@stormyboy129]

I want to ride that beast

[@roiq5263]

I want to build a house on it.

[@adlanuzairamerhafizi4995]

Wow

[@robertcornelius3514]

This story came out when Americans were happy. Now they cry for help.

[@onewheelisbetterthan2]

Americans and the way they measure stuff is kinda a joke right.

[@samuelbedsole5089]

Forgive us for putting things into a perspective we can all visualize.

[@raysteel6317]

The very first climate change bog.

[@tedsmith6137]

What is wrong with Americans that they cannot understand what "700 feet by 200 feet" means, so that have to convert it into football fields, tanker cars, 747's, elephants, swimming pools, ad nauseum?

[@chouseification]

blame Boyd Huppert... for some reason, they kept him on staff all these years, despite every single story he does being truly horrid. He has ZERO presence whatsoever, and sounds like he needs to blow his nose before each take - which he never does. Every one of his clips includes reduction of common measurements into "about this big" conversions for absolute dummies... like Boyd himself, since he insists on doing it all the time.

[@samuelbedsole5089]

We're visual learners who like to put things into perspective. You say that like it's a bad thing.

[@ShawnaCosmica]

​@@samuelbedsole5089Exactly, it's to help visualize the size. I think it's more smart to put it into perspective this way as just saying 700x200 isn't going to give the same.

[@gregorybrown8756]

What the hell would a community need a permit for something like this? Maybe the directors of the same department who has to issue the permit should be required to pay for the damages caused by the bog. Having to have a permit to deal with something like this is ridiculous

[@ev6558]

Your type are the first ones loudly complaining when someone unqualified botches the job.

[@gregorybrown8756]

A permit is no assurance of a successful operation. You, obviously are a believer in "were from the government and were here to help"

[@ev6558]

@@gregorybrown8756 Having a permit system is better than no permit system. You obviously are a believer in "feelings before facts" as evidenced by your grammar.

[@gregorybrown8756]

@@ev6558 just a believer in personal freedoms before government. You don't need a permit to protect your property or family.

[@MrGringoman80]

@@ev6558 No sir people like us have simply seen to many qualified people botch the job to believe that permits are generally anything more than a way to collect money without raising taxes.