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 $860.00).
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 for the ducks
to focus on, something for the decoys to float in.
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 birdshot, hardly big enough to stop a Black Lab. The dog
stops for a moment, slightly confused, and 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 truck touches the dog's rear end; he
yelps, drops the dynamite under the truck and takes off after his
master.
Then " "" "" "" "" BOOOOOOOOOOOOM "" "" "" "" ! ! !
The truck is destroyed 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 $860.00 a month payments.
The dog is okay . . .doing fine.
And you thought Rednecks only live in the South...