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Bad story out of Brownwood. Either there is a lot more to it, or the cops there are way over reacting. Just from whats in the article though, this appears to have just been a normal winter sports accident.
https://www.brownwoodnews.com/2026/01/26/arrest-made-for-aggravated-assault-causing-serious-bodily-injury-after-sledding-accident-at-gordon-wood-stadium/
https://www.brownwoodnews.com/2026/01/26/arrest-made-for-aggravated-assault-causing-serious-bodily-injury-after-sledding-accident-at-gordon-wood-stadium/
Didn't she die?
But the article doesn't say that.
Maybe witnesses heard her and others screaming stop or slow down.
But the article doesn't say that.
Maybe witnesses heard her and others screaming stop or slow down.
“You can resolve to live your life with integrity. Let your credo be this: Let the lie come into the world, let it even triumph. But not through me.”
- Alexander Solzhenitsyn
- Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Way overreacting.
I meant pictures of the kids riding their sleds etc. I live on the Ark/Mo border by Mountain Home and got 12"+ and have plenty of my own snow to look at. I don't have kids so wanted to see them having fun!! 
TAMU Wildlife and Fisheries Science
Saw yesterday that in Frisco Texas two teenage girls were riding a towed sled in the snow and a 16 year old boy was pulling them with a Jeep.
The girls slid into a tree and one died and the other is in critical condition.
The girls slid into a tree and one died and the other is in critical condition.
TAMU Wildlife and Fisheries Science
Gunny456 said:
Saw yesterday that in Frisco Texas two teenage girls were riding a towed sled in the snow and a 16 year old boy was pulling them with a Jeep.
The girls slid into a tree and one died and the other is in critical condition.
Horrible to hear. Life can be so tragic at times. Parents shouldn't have to bury their children.
“You can resolve to live your life with integrity. Let your credo be this: Let the lie come into the world, let it even triumph. But not through me.”
- Alexander Solzhenitsyn
- Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Doing that kind of thing is pretty minor compared to what went on in Brownwood when I was growing up. Oh, what it was like to be young and stupid.
JFABNRGR said:Gunny456 said:
Saw yesterday that in Frisco Texas two teenage girls were riding a towed sled in the snow and a 16 year old boy was pulling them with a Jeep.
The girls slid into a tree and one died and the other is in critical condition.
Horrible to hear. Life can be so tragic at times. Parents shouldn't have to bury their children.
3 little boys under 10, all brothers, drowned in a icy pond in Bonham. Guessing they broke through unexpectedly.
I can't even imagine
This storm has been pretty tragic for kids having fun in N. Texas. 4 dead and one in critical condition.
The Brownwood situation likely has a lot more to the story that hasn't been revealed yet.
The Frisco case is the 16 year old girl, fatally hit a tree
Three young boys in Bonham drowning
OK City had a fatal sledding accident too. Female dropped the rope and another motorist ran her over. Alcohol involved by sled puller and the other motorist.
Also saw one in Houston area - side by side rollover, passenger fatally injured. He was a teacher/coach. His good friend was driving and has been charged with intoxication manslaughter or similar.
Also read about an elderly feller that died in a pond. Not sure if drowning or froze to death
Very tragic few days
I checked in with my 93 yr old grandfather to see what his hard head is up to. He said he tried to go the back way to check the mail so he could stay in the grass but the gate latch was frozen and that means the mailbox would be frozen so he called off the mission. Otherwise he's only been feeding birds on the patio
The Frisco case is the 16 year old girl, fatally hit a tree
Three young boys in Bonham drowning
OK City had a fatal sledding accident too. Female dropped the rope and another motorist ran her over. Alcohol involved by sled puller and the other motorist.
Also saw one in Houston area - side by side rollover, passenger fatally injured. He was a teacher/coach. His good friend was driving and has been charged with intoxication manslaughter or similar.
Also read about an elderly feller that died in a pond. Not sure if drowning or froze to death
Very tragic few days
I checked in with my 93 yr old grandfather to see what his hard head is up to. He said he tried to go the back way to check the mail so he could stay in the grass but the gate latch was frozen and that means the mailbox would be frozen so he called off the mission. Otherwise he's only been feeding birds on the patio
We didn't mix vehicles in with our snow day fun. Seems like a needless risk. Especially where there are also trees.
I lived on a hill and we went down that hill in every way imaginable and created quite a few. When there's frozen streets and kids, they will eventually meet up with cars
Sledding behind a car must be a not from where it snows thing. Thats just suicidal.
Bayou City said:
Sledding behind a car must be a not from where it snows thing. Thats just suicidal.
That was pretty much an every time it snowed thing for me growing up. On old car hoods, sleds etc. But I grew up in an area with absolutely no hills to sled.
Eliminatus said:JFABNRGR said:Gunny456 said:
Saw yesterday that in Frisco Texas two teenage girls were riding a towed sled in the snow and a 16 year old boy was pulling them with a Jeep.
The girls slid into a tree and one died and the other is in critical condition.
Horrible to hear. Life can be so tragic at times. Parents shouldn't have to bury their children.
3 little boys under 10, all brothers, drowned in a icy pond in Bonham. Guessing they broke through unexpectedly.
I can't even imagine
Where were the parents? Were they unsupervised? I would never just let my young kids play in these weather conditions unsupervised.
Did that at the ranch down in South Texas growing up. Hood off a 56 Chevy truck. No snow. We did wear a helmet because stickers really hurt in your scalp.
Yeah, simple math kids don't understand.
Say you are driving and pulling some kids on a sled on a 50' rope. I'll make some crude approximations here but if you turn a 50' circle the vehicle radius 25' your vehicle travels almost 80' around a 180 degree turn.
The sled on the 50 foot rope, which for ease of calculation is trailing the vehicle straight back from the centerline, so is traveling around the circumference of a circle of radius about 50 feet due to the offset of it being in line with the vehicle centerline vis straight out, best case, if the vehicle is doing 20mph, the sled is doing 40mph over about 160' arc. Hit a tree, or parked vehicle, it is gamevover.
You can do it in an open field maybe. Down a suburban street is extremely dangerous.
Say you are driving and pulling some kids on a sled on a 50' rope. I'll make some crude approximations here but if you turn a 50' circle the vehicle radius 25' your vehicle travels almost 80' around a 180 degree turn.
The sled on the 50 foot rope, which for ease of calculation is trailing the vehicle straight back from the centerline, so is traveling around the circumference of a circle of radius about 50 feet due to the offset of it being in line with the vehicle centerline vis straight out, best case, if the vehicle is doing 20mph, the sled is doing 40mph over about 160' arc. Hit a tree, or parked vehicle, it is gamevover.
You can do it in an open field maybe. Down a suburban street is extremely dangerous.
Anybody who's ever either witnessed or been the one on tube out behind the boat knows that your calculations seem kind. I'd swear I might be doing 80+ out on that tube.
I believe the mom had to be rescued and was trying to save them.
Thunderstruck xx said:Eliminatus said:JFABNRGR said:Gunny456 said:
Saw yesterday that in Frisco Texas two teenage girls were riding a towed sled in the snow and a 16 year old boy was pulling them with a Jeep.
The girls slid into a tree and one died and the other is in critical condition.
Horrible to hear. Life can be so tragic at times. Parents shouldn't have to bury their children.
3 little boys under 10, all brothers, drowned in a icy pond in Bonham. Guessing they broke through unexpectedly.
I can't even imagine
Where were the parents? Were they unsupervised? I would never just let my young kids play in these weather conditions unsupervised.
The kids were told not to go near the pond but the youngest was 6 I think. So he should have been supervised anyhow. The youngest fell in and then the two older boys tried to save him. The mom was alerted by the older sister and she ran and jumped in. She would have drown too if a bystander didn't pull her out. Just awful.
Doc Hayworth said:
Doing that kind of thing is pretty minor compared to what went on in Brownwood when I was growing up. Oh, what it was like to be young and stupid.
Back when I was in about the 3rd grade or so, this would have been around 1982 or 83, it came hell of a snow storm that shut everything down and we all went out to Thrill Hill, out by the country club. People kamakazi'ing off of that thing. Zero safety equipment was used. Gen X did things differently.
Eliminatus said:JFABNRGR said:Gunny456 said:
Saw yesterday that in Frisco Texas two teenage girls were riding a towed sled in the snow and a 16 year old boy was pulling them with a Jeep.
The girls slid into a tree and one died and the other is in critical condition.
Horrible to hear. Life can be so tragic at times. Parents shouldn't have to bury their children.
3 little boys under 10, all brothers, drowned in a icy pond in Bonham. Guessing they broke through unexpectedly.
I can't even imagine
Horrible.
Gonna have to show this to my kids and wife chatting about the dangers again. We have a pond and creek in back iced over but were hitting temps in the 40-60s way above normal here.
“You can resolve to live your life with integrity. Let your credo be this: Let the lie come into the world, let it even triumph. But not through me.”
- Alexander Solzhenitsyn
- Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Grew up in the Big Country near Abilene and we used to sled down a big steep hill on a par 3 at the golf course. Just past the tee box at the bottom of the hill was a lake, so we had to brake or bail. Of course, sledding became boring so we decided to try to "surf" down on the Radio Flyer. Not much success but lots of fun tumbling down the hill.
When we became old enough to drive, the grocery store parking lot was where we did our drifting and donuts. Never did the tow thing but lots of my buddies did.
The amount of dumb sheet I did as a kid and teenager...
When we became old enough to drive, the grocery store parking lot was where we did our drifting and donuts. Never did the tow thing but lots of my buddies did.
The amount of dumb sheet I did as a kid and teenager...
No snow down south, but we did have miles of concrete banked irrigation canals. We would tube and surf in the canals behind a car or truck using a ski rope. Fun as can be, dangerous as hell as there was debris and the canals had concrete banks. Amazing none of us were terribly injured or worse. We would get up to around 25-30mph.
I do know there was a bad accident in the 90s and the irrigation districts started putting up heavy duty locked gates and when the canal riders would see the activity they started calling the sheriff's and cops.
Terrible tragedy for those kids and children in NTX, heartbreaking.
I do know there was a bad accident in the 90s and the irrigation districts started putting up heavy duty locked gates and when the canal riders would see the activity they started calling the sheriff's and cops.
Terrible tragedy for those kids and children in NTX, heartbreaking.
I grew up back in the day when Mom would say, be back for supper. We knew our boundaries, but honestly, we were just kids.
I just can't comprehend the loss of three kids. And I can see where these kids reacted the way they did, and it turned out tragically.
May their Mom and Dad know the Peace that passes all understanding.
How very, very, terrible.
I just can't comprehend the loss of three kids. And I can see where these kids reacted the way they did, and it turned out tragically.
May their Mom and Dad know the Peace that passes all understanding.
How very, very, terrible.
I'm in safety at a chemical plant. When you look at confined space fatalities, it is almost always multiple fatalities. The person that goes down and then the people that react instinctively and try to save them.
RCR06 said:
I'm in safety at a chemical plant. When you look at confined space fatalities, it is almost always multiple fatalities. The person that goes down and then the people that react instinctively and try to save them.
Yep. Every time.
GentrysMillTX10 said:
https://www.brownwoodnews.com/2026/01/28/brownwood-fire-police-personnel-rescue-man-who-had-fallen-through-ice-into-pond/?fbclid=IwZnRzaAPnJlRleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZAo2NjI4NTY4Mzc5AAEe5omkvQTcJiCbeTbeaEcpxPBJkCcp3zExqDWOZBf76pMFKIF8nYs5gXlNfKM_aem_L4wZKWx61q_eTUGMdHNMXg
I understand the three boys in Bonham that drowned had recently moved from Brownwood. That makes three stories in this thread that tie to Brownwood.
Yep
You're from Brownwood. Don't deny it.
You're from Brownwood. Don't deny it.
GentrysMillTX10 said:
Yep
You're from Brownwood. Don't deny it.
BHS Class of 91 here. Moved out after my sophmore year of HS though to go to the east coast. Fair amount of family still there.
I'm not from Brown county…but did move to Early, Tx back in June. I identify as Early and not Brownwood. Big difference
GentrysMillTX10 said:
I'm not from Brown county…but did move to Early, Tx back in June. I identify as Early and not Brownwood. Big difference
No sir. You can deny it if you want, but Early is still Brownwood! Sort of like how Conroe and Katy are in denial about actually being Houston...
O.G. said:GentrysMillTX10 said:
I'm not from Brown county…but did move to Early, Tx back in June. I identify as Early and not Brownwood. Big difference
No sir. You can deny it if you want, but Early is still Brownwood! Sort of like how Conroe and Katy are in denial about actually being Houston...
To be fair, both are only about 15 minutes from downtown. /Tine Board cross-over
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