I saw Lady Gaga jump into freezing water

Plunging into freezing water...sounds crazy right? Well I guess when you make it for a good cause you can get over 100 people to voluntarily jump into freezing water. Today was the 3rd Annual Pintler Plunge just west of Anaconda, Montana. In my 13th straight day of work I was sent out to cover the arctic aquatics. I didn't mind too much though, I have to admit it was entertaining.

Most people form teams and every individual needs to raise at least $100 to jump into the chilly water. All the money goes to the Special Olympics Montana so it is for a good cause and when I was interviewing people that's what they kept telling me when I asked them why they jumped into such cold water voluntarily. When I was standing there next to my camera waiting for it to start one man so kindly offered to videotape me while I jump in. I told him I would not be doing that. When I told him you needed to raise $100 to be able to jump he responded by saying, "I'm sure we could get enough money raised between people here now since you're from the news." I still decided to pass but way to go to everyone who was willing to brave the icy waters of Silver Lake.

Now while it's fun to see people's faces as they hit the frigid water it was even more entertaining to see some of the costumes today. The teams can dress up and have a chance to win best dressed for the best costume. A team of guys all dressed up to look like Lady Gaga. They all had long blonde hair wigs and wore ridiculous things and I say things cause it wasn't even clothes they were wearing. One guy had a bunch of balloons on him another had caution tape. One guy had just black panties and black lipstick. I asked him to talk to me on camera after he jumped in the water and he said no because he didn't want his family seeing what he had done haha.

I have to say the Lady Gaga outfits were probably the best costumes. Although, the cops who jumped had a team name of "pigs in a blanket" and wore pig noses to jump, which is funny. Another team wore duck shaped inner tubes around their waist. I think if I were ever to do a polar plunge I'd want to wear a wetsuit or something that would keep me warm.