This time of year is always a dangerous time for young people who love to take chances - especially who live out in the country or in the suburbs of a city like Knotty Pine. The great shady river flows swiftly by the city, and it seldom - if ever - freezes over. It's too swift and powerful to allow ice to form, except along the edges. The river does carry huge chunks of ice downstream however, and the people have long expressed the desire to have the river fenced off where young people could get into trouble with these ice flows, and that's what today's story is about...