Two hunters from Minnesota -- (true story)
This is from a radio program, a true report of an incident in
Minnesota:
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 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 a natural landing area for the ducks, 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 the ice and captures the
stick of dynamite with the burning 40 second fuse 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 grab the shotgun and
shoots 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, thinking these two geniuses have gone insane.
The dog 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
this "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. He still had yet to make the first of
those $560.00 a month payments!!!
And you thought your day was not going well ---
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This is from a radio program, a true report of an incident in
Minnesota:
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 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 a natural landing area for the ducks, 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 the ice and captures the
stick of dynamite with the burning 40 second fuse 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 grab the shotgun and
shoots 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, thinking these two geniuses have gone insane.
The dog 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
this "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. He still had yet to make the first of
those $560.00 a month payments!!!
And you thought your day was not going well ---
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