Jan 14, 2009 5:53 pm US/Central
Custom-Made Ice House Stolen Off Medicine Lake
MEDICINE LAKE, Minn. (WCCO) ―
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Tyler Vandal and his dad bought the navy-colored shell and spent about $12,000 customizing the inside of it. They put in basswood and black walnut, along with bunks to sleep three people and a heater for the space.
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A labor of love for a father and son is now gone after the pair the tried to go fishing and found the ice house they built -- stolen.
Tyler Vandal and his father, Mike, were ready to go ice fishing this week. They had all their gear and they had a very special ice house to go to.
But they ran into one big problem -- someone else thought their ice house was cool and stole it right off the ice.
Now all Tyler and Mike, have left is a pile of scraps.
"You can see the chunks here. They sliced it off there," Tyler said, as he showed what's left of the lock.
The lock was on the hitch to his ice house that was stolen off Medicine Lake in Plymouth. He first realized the custom-made ice house was gone, when he came out with his buddies to fish on Tuesday afternoon.
"It's beyond me. I can't believe why someone would do something like that," said Tyler.
It wasn't just any ice house. Tyler and his dad bought the navy-colored shell and spent about $12,000 customizing the inside of it. They put in basswood and black walnut, along with bunks to sleep three people and a heater for the space.
"It was a good project for him and I to get into, and we put a lot of work into it," said Mike. "And it took a while. I probably had about a dozen hours in the wood-burning I did on this side."
Inside the house, there were drawings of fish and other things burned into the wood. All the work took three months.
"It was an experience and a lot of fun," said Tyler.
It was a chance for his father and him to spend some time together, just like they did when Tyler was younger. Now they won't be able to make more memories in their ice house this winter.
"As far as us go, on a personal level, I never felt so disappointed in people," said Mike.
"I'd love for it to be found, cause you can't replace the time, effort and energy we put into it," said Tyler.
Anyone with information on the ice house is asked to call the Hennepin County Sheriff's Department at 1-888-988-TIPS.
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