Duck Hunting Anyone?

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 with monthly payments of $560.00.

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 area for the ducks to focus on, 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 light the fuse -- and becoming toast along with the new NAVIGATOR -- decide on the following coarse of action: they light the 40-second fuse; then with a mighty thrust they hurl 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 scream at the dog to stop. The dog cheered on by his master, keeps coming.

One hunter grabs the shot gun and shoots the dog. The #8 birdshot is hardly going to stop a Black Lab. Another shot and the dog becomes really confused and terrified, thinks these two geniuses have gone insane and takes cover under the brand new NAVIGATOR.

The men scream and run. The 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.

BOOOOOOOOOOOM

The truck is blown to bits and sinks to the bottom off the lake, leaving the two men standing there with "I can't believe this just happened" looks on their faces.

The insurance company says that a vehicle in a lake by illegal use of explosives is NOT COVERED by the policy. The owner had yet to make the first of those $560.00 monthly payments. The dog is okay. Doing fine.