CARY, N.C. -- A Wake County teen got more than he was asking for when he fell through a pond in Cary and had to be rescued Thursday.

"Me and my friend were just walking on the ice and I guess it was too brittle. It cracked and I fell in," said Cameron Hens.

Hens went into the ice at a pond on Merry Hill Drive off Kildaire Farm Road on Thursday morning, and he says he almost didn't make it out...

"I tried to climb onto the ice but it kept on breaking," says Hens. "After the first couple times it broke I just started breaking it to try and get to the shore."

And Hens isn't the only one who is walking on the ice. Neighbors say they've been warning off children all day. 

"We still saw some kids out there trying to fool around so we had to run out and tell them, a kid just got pulled out of this pond and it was too close," says Jamal Michele, who helped rescue the teen.

In order to walk on ice, the ice needs to be 6 inches deep. North Carolina has not seen cold enough temperatures to make that happen.