Duck Hunting With Dynamite

True Story from Michigan, USA 

Guy buys a brand new Jeep Grand Cherokee for $30,000+, and 
has $400.00+ in monthly payments.  He's pretty proud of this 
rig, and gets a hold of his friend to do some male bonding 
with the new ride. 

They go duck hunting and of course all the lakes are frozen. 
These two brainiacs go to the lake with their guns, the dog, 
the beer and, of course, the new vehicle. 

They drive out onto the ice. Now, they want to make some 
kind of a natural landing area to attract ducks - something 
the decoys will float on. 

Remember, it's all ice, and in order to make a hole large 
enough to interest a flock of ducks and a hole big enough to 
entice ducks to land, they needed to use a little more than 
an ice hole drill.....Soooo, out of the back of the brand - new 
Jeep Grand Cherokee comes a stick of dynamite with 
a short 40-second fuse! 

Now, to their credit, these two rocket scientists DID take 
into consideration that if they placed the stick of dynamite 
on the ice at a location far from where they (and the new 
Grand Cherokee) would be waiting and ran back quickly, they 
would risk slipping on the ice as they ran from the imminent 
explosion and could possibly go up in smoke with the resulting 
blast. After a little deliberation, they come up with lighting 
and THROWING the dynamite, which is what they end up doing. 

Remember a couple of paragraphs back when I mentioned the 
vehicle, the beer, the guns AND THE DOG?????  Yes, the dog. 
The driver's pet 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, reaching the 
stick of dynamite with the burning 40-second fuse about the 
time it hits the ice - all to the woe of the two idiots who 
are now yelling, stomping, waving arms and wondering what 
the heck to do now..... 

The dog is happy and now heads back toward the "hunters" 
with the stick of dynamite. I think we all can picture the 
ever increasing concern on the part of the brain trust, as 
the loyal Labrador retriever approaches. The Bozos now are 
REALLY waving their arms - yelling even louder and generally 
feeling kinda panicked..... 

Finally, one of the guys decides to think - something that 
neither had done before this moment, grabs a shotgun and 
shoots the dog. This sounds better than it really is, 
because the shotgun was loaded with #8 duckshot and hardly 
effective enough to stop a black Lab. 

The dog DID stop for a moment, slightly confused, but then 
continued on. Another shot, and this time the dog - still 
standing, became REALLY confused & of course scared. 

Thinking that these two Nobel Prize Winners have gone 
TOTALLY INSANE, the pooch takes off to find cover with a now 
extremely short fuse still burning on the stick of dynamite. 
The cover the dog finds?  Underneath the brand-new Grand 
Cherokee worth 30-some thousand dollars and the $400.00+ 
monthly payment vehicle that is sitting nearby on the lake ice. 

BOOM!!--Dog dies, vehicle sinks to bottom of lake, and these 
two "Co-Leaders of the Known Universe" are left standing 
there with this 'I can't EVEN believe this happened to me' 
look on their faces. 

Later, the owner of the vehicle calls his insurance company 
and is promptly informed that sinking a vehicle in a lake by 
illegal use of explosives is NOT covered on his policy...He 
had yet to make his first car payment.