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>ABSOLUTELY A TRUE STORY HEARD ON A WISCONSIN RADIO STATION REPORTING ON THE
>INCIDENT.
>
> A guy buys a brand new Lincoln Navigator truck for $42,500 (with monthly
>payments of $560.00).
>
> He and a friend go duck hunting in mid-winter; and of course all of the
>lakes are frozen. These two guys go out on a lake with their GUNS, a DOG,
>and of course the new NAVIGATOR.
>
> They drive the Navigator out onto the frozen lake and get ready to place
>the decoys. They decide they want to make a natural looking water area for
>the ducks, 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,
>theGUNS, and the DOG...??? Let's talk about the dog: A highly trained
>BlackLab 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
>the 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 birdshot, 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 c! ourse terrified, thinking 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 truck
>touches the dogs rear end, he yelps, drops the dynamite under the truck and
>takes off after his master.
>
> Then """"""" BOOOOOOOOOOM """""""!!!! 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.
