Have you heard about the two duck hunters from Wisconsin? Absolutely a true story heard on a Wisconsin radio station reporting on the incident.
A guy buys a new Lincoln Navigator for $42,500.00
(with monthly payments of $560.00).
He and a friend go duck hunting in upper Wisconsin.
It's mid-winter;and of course all of the lakes are
frozen. These two guys go out on the ice with their
GUNS, a DOG, and of course the new NAVIGATOR. They
decide they want to make a natural looking open
water area for the ducks to focus on, something for
the decoys to float on.
Now making a hole in the ice large enough to invite
a passing duck, is going to take a little more
power than the average drill auger can produce.
So, out of the back of the new Navigator comes a
stick of dynamite with a short 40 second fuse. Now
our two Rocket Scientists, afraid they might slip
on the ice while trying to run away after lighting
the fuse (and becoming toast, along with the
Navigator), decide on the following course of
action: they light the 40 second fuse; then, with a
mighty thrust, they throw the stick of dynamite as
far away as possible.
Remember a couple of paragraphs back when I
mentioned the NAVIGATOR, 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
across the ice at a high rate of speed and grabs
the stick of dynamite, with the burning 40 second
fuse, just as it hits the ice.
The two men swallow, blink, start waving their
arms and, with veins in their necks swelling to
resemble stalks of rhubarb, scream and holler at
the dog to stop. The dog, now apparently cheered
on by his master, keeps coming.
One hunter panics, grabs the shotgun and shoots
the dog. The shotgun is loaded with #8 bird shot,
hardly big enough to stop a Black Lab. The dog
stops for a moment, slightly confused, then
continues on. Another shot, and this time the dog,
still standing, becomes really confused and of
course terrified, thinks these two geniuses have
gone insane. The dog takes off to find cover,
UNDER the brand new Navigator.
The men continue to scream as they run. The red
hot exhaust pipe on the Navigator touches the
dog's rear end, he yelps, drops the dynamite under
the Navigator and takes off after his master.
Then BOOOOOOOOOOOOM!!!
The truck is blown to bits and sinks to the
bottom of the lake, leaving the two idiots
standing there with "I can't believe this just
happened" looks on their faces.
The insurance company says that sinking a vehicle
in a lake by illegal use of explosives is NOT
COVERED by the policy. And he still had yet to
make the first of those $560.00 a month payments.
The dog is okay, doing fine.