[GeoStL] OT, but the hunters may get a kick out of this...
- From: "GC-RGS" <gc-rgs@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "GC-maillist" <geocaching@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 8 Dec 2003 08:47:22 -0600
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.
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