Dan O'Conor has jumped into Lake Michigan every day for nearly a year ...

[mahatmakanejeeves]

Dan O’Conor has jumped into Lake Michigan every day for nearly a year, from the gloriously warm summertime to the punishingly frigid Chicago winter and back again. "I just wanted to block it all out, the pandemic and everything," he said.

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[James48]

1. Why???

[Aristus]

2. Because it's there.

And because people doing odd things in the middle of a pandemic is a tradition going back centuries.

[bahboo]

3. dayum, even on a warm day, that lake is COLD....

[Kaleva]

5. Textbook testicle abuse. Unfortunately, Illinois has no law against it.

[Wounded Bear]

4. Hey, when I yelled at you to go jump in a lake, I wasn't being literal...