Mysterious Crack Forms Across Upper Michigan

Not just the UP, but the whole state of Michigan. We're finally leaving those sconnies behind!

Global Warming.

Sounds like the giant growth on Wisconsin's back is finally falling off.

Either that or Canada is trying for some modern day land grab. If so, I'm moving to the U.P., I loved living in Canada.

if it falls off maybe the mitten can catch it

I'm sure that someone will eventually blame HAARP...

I can only assume that since the U.S. used to be covered by ocean, that Cthulhu is waking

Wisconsin should have never declared "Plumber" as the state job.

Invasion by the Duergar-Drow Alliance from the Underdark.

They see the United States as weak. Our national government is divided and lacks the long-term stability provided by a hereditary monarch. Our military is waging two wars on the other side of the planet. We have no formal state religion and our priests can't even work minor healings. What little religious authority they have is squandered on oppressing anyone with a talent for arcana or psionics. It's a far cry from the matriarchal theocracy by the Drow priestess of Lloth, that's for sure.

Their dark legions probably plan to emerge from their hidden tunnels and split the continental US in two from north to south through our relatively unguarded and thinly populated farm-belt states. Once they've seized our agricultural base, we'll have to surrender or starve.

The Upper Peninsula, millions of years ago, broke off from Michigan proper. In order to prevent its ecosystem from collapsing, it was hurriedly grafted onto Wisconsin to prevent an ecological disaster. Unfortunately, now, Wisconsin is rejecting the transplant.

Jupiter grew tired of the earth blocking its sun and giving it a spotty tan, so it lashed out and whipped us with its unwound rings to let us know where we stand in this system. Take that Michigan.

sounds like the earth is evolving. This is another event that makes the world go round.

Yo' mama sat down

(Sorry.. had to)

I blame Wisconsin, it's clear that the U.P is lactose intolerant.

The upper Michigan Mole people have grown tired of the Wisconsin toxic cheese and beer runoff and crated these ditches. The next generation of Mole childeren will be saved from dibilitating cheeseyheaditis by the creation of these drainage ditches. A second unspected benifit of this is the dreaded two wheeled Milwaukee ground roublers (HD) can not travers the ditches into upper Michigan there by releving many of the Mole familys of Harleydavefinitis. A dibilating condition where the rumble of the mechanical wonders cause entire mole familys to loose control of their bowels. Sever cases result in death due to larger familys drowning in their dens do to loss of control and sub par plumbing due to the fact that they live in upper Michigan where, they are seperated from the Lower Michigan trolls, known for their four wheeled ground rumblers, and their knowledge of plumbing by nearly five mile of water.

Chuck Norris was jogging. Approximately 200 yards, in fact.

It's the obesity epidemic which has spread to Canada, and there is not enough weight distribution in the middle so it's putting a lot of stress on both ends of the plate which is the planet Earth.

Clearly it's the work of them terrorizers.

Or terrists.

The Taos Hum is responsible.

The comments were so funny, I forgot what I was going to say... short term memory stuff...

The U.P. is returning to its original state as an island. In 2012 it will apply for favored nation status. But in 2013 both Canada and the US will begin WW3 over the small island.

PancakeMan wins a the internets!! :D

I think I saw this in a SyFy movie a few months back where a crack formed in the Earth. A maverick scientist/surfer played by Jeremy London (with the aid of his grizzled mentor played by John Rhys Davies, who falls into the crack while trying to save Timmy, the dumbass little boy who wandered too close to the crack trying to retrieve his baseball - signed by Nomah, sorry, Nomar Garciaparra)must fuse the crack and stop the Earth from splitting in two. Silly Earth!
He does so by importing ice from Antarctica and freezing the crack shut through the cold stopping the cellular splitting going on in the soil. Hooray!

^ Isn't that how Brewster wanted to spend his money in Brewster's Millions? By towing an iceberg?

Sounds like something from the popular Kids book "The Alchemyst: The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel" by Michael Scott! If not, how about this being related to the massive pumping of oil happening in N. Dakota. The oil field is under a lake, water is heavy, things shift... and the up is just lucky!

The U.P. is clearly getting ready to return to the mothership. Over the next fifty years, it will fully separate from Wisconsin. Once that is achieved, it will start to levitate, and then take off into the sky with everything on it.

Longitude of Holes, Seaway Rip Zone, Pole Shift, Planet X. Internets I love you!

None of you are funny.

Except this guy:

“I was sitting in my recliner and the recliner started to vibrate,” said Heider. “And it’s not electric.”

At least we can compete with the grand canyons now.

“I was sitting in my recliner and the recliner started to vibrate,” said Heider. “And it’s not electric.”
Since it's a U-per, it is probably steam powered.

the upper peninsula does not want to be associated with wisconsin anymore....we broke free from the horrible lower peninsula already, so now we will break free from horrible wisconsin!!!!! lol

I'm sure Pat Robertson has an explanation involving same-sex marriage.

woohoo! who wants to move to the Island of Michigan!? lol

Sarah Palin will move in next and start to claim she can see Canada from her house.

The earth's crust is beginning to give way as the hollow earth theory is completely true. Nazi's will begin invading the west through the Wisconsin-Michigan border because those two states have many ethic Germans living there.

I have to agree that none of these are very amusing. A 200-yard crack is nowhere near the length of the border between states.

Wisconsin is just mad that MSU beat them last Saturday. They're breaking up with MI in retaliation for that loss.

So Isengard is somewhere between Wisconsin and the UP?

Does that mean Mordor is in Detroit?

Democrats will blame George W. Again.

aww, come on people it's obviously Crab people...

or Yellowstone's hotspot is moving and is making a new volcano...

Crab people, Crab people.

Don't worry, those cracks will get erased from history when The Doctor flies the Pandorica into the exploding Tardis. It's all good.

The earth is actually a giant phoenix egg and it is slowly hatching.