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 grabs 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.
