Duck
Hunting on Ice
This
is from a radio program, a true report of an incident in
Michigan: (at least as the story is told - could be anywhere
that Ice Fishing is popular)
A guy buys a brand new Lincoln Navigator 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 the guns, the 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,
something 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 is going to take a little more effort than
an ice hole drill. So, out of the back of the new Navigator
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 are standing (and the new
Navigator), because 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.
----BOOM!----
Dog and Navigator are blown to bits and sink 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 a month
payments!!
And
you thought your day was not going well?
