And you thought your day was bad...

[Silver Hilton]

Two hunters from Wisconsin -- (true story)

This is from a radio program, a true report of an incident in Wisconsin:

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, 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'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 ---

[Pitch Pocket]

Sorry Silver Hilton, that story is not true. Another urban legend. Read about it here:

Dynamite Dog Legend

[Silver Hilton]

There I go, spinning things again.

Sorry about the "This is REALLY REALLY true" stuff. I just cut and pasted it in, cuz I thought it was funny. Didn't catch that part...

[lost_sailor]

The "highly trained" dog would stop on command.

[Thumper]

Well, it's a great story anyhow. If the dog survived, he would likely have ended up gunshy. :tongue:

[Albacore Tuna Captain]

Real or not, I thought the story was a gut spliter!

[id. painter]

True insurance claim...." I was burned by the exhaust pipe of a garbage truck,,, while sun -bathing at the beach." Sounds just about as likely. Hi Ho . id. p.

[crabbait]

As a dedicated lab owner I find nothing remotely amusing about this story. I do, however, have a good idea where the next stick should have gone.

[DanS]

You like labs, crabbait?? Huh......I never would have guessed......... :grin:

[justcastn]

I agree with you crabbait... :smile: