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Amy Duffy

Glasgow City Council warn residents not to skate on Queen's Park pond after comedian's viral video

Glasgow City Council have issued a warning for residents not to skate on Queen's Park pond after a comedian's video went viral.

Glasgow comedian Paul Black, who is well-known across the city for his viral videos, shared a TikTok video about the sharp drop in temperatures causing the pond to begin to freeze over, and went on a rant about skaters who had taken to the pond in previous years.

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In the video Paul rants about visitors to the southside pond, particularly "middle-class families who will soon descend on the pond" and even "have their own ice skates", which he says he first noticed in 2020 when the pond froze over and the pond became "like some sort of Charles Dickens novel" with the amount of skaters.

GCC quickly took to Twitter, sharing Paul's video and warning: "As much as it's tempting, do not skate, attempt to cross, walk or play on ponds, or any frozen bodies of water. No matter how solid it might look, you have no idea how unstable it actually is.

"With extremely cold weather forecast, please stay safe and stay off the ice."

Just last year a 12-year-old boy fell through the ice on the pond, although he was thankfully uninjured.

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