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This is from a radio program, a true report of an incident in Wisconsin:
A guy buys a brand new Lincoln Navigator truck for $42,500 and has $560
monthly payments. He and a friend go duck hunting in the winter, and of
course all the lakes are frozen. These two guys go out on the lake with
their guns, a dog, and, of course,the new vehicle. They drive out onto the
lake ice and get ready. Now, they want to make some kind of natural landing
area for the ducks and for the decoys to float on. In order to make a hole
large enough to look like something a wandering duck would fly down and land
on, it's going to take a little more effort than an ice hole drill. So, out
of the back of the new Navigator truck comes a stick of dynamite with a
short, 40 second fuse. Now, these two "rocket scientists" DO take into
consideration that they want to place the stick of dynamite on the ice at a
location far from where they (and the new Navigator truck) are standing.
They don't want to take the risk of slipping on the ice when they run from
the burning fuse and possibly go up in smoke with the resulting blast. They
light the 40 second fuse and throw the dynamite. Remember a couple of
paragraphs back when I mentioned: the vehicle, the guns and the dog?
Let's talk about the dog: A highly trained Black Lab used for RETRIEVING,
especially things thrown by the owner. You guessed it. The dog takes off at
a high rate of "doggy speed" on to the ice and captures the stick of
dynamite with the burning 40 second fuse just about the time it hits the
ice.
The two men yell, scream, wave their arms and wonder what to do now. The
dog, cheered on, keeps coming! One of the guys grabs the shotgun and shoots
at the dog. The shotgun is loaded with #8 buckshot - hardly big enough to
stop a Black Lab. The dog stops for a moment, slightly confused, but
continues on.
Another shot and this time the dog, still standing, becomes really confused
and, of course, terrified and thinking these two geniuses have gone insane,
takes off to find cover . . . under the brand new Navigator truck. The men
continue to yell as they run. The exhaust pipe on the truck is still hot, so
the dog yelps and drops the dynamite under the truck and takes off after his
master.
Then . . . BOOM! The truck is blown to bits and sinks to the bottom of the
lake in a very large hole . . . leaving the two idiots standing there with a
classic "I can't believe this happened" look on their faces. The insurance
company says that sinking a vehicle in a lake by illegal use of explosives
is not covered. The owner still had yet to make the first of those $560
payments.
And you thought your day wasn't going well!!!
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