Long story from the radio...but VERY funny!!!!!!

Ben 93 325is · #1 (**permalink**) 01-29-2002, 02:33 PM

Two hunters from Michigan--(true story) This is from a
> > radio program, a true report of an incident in Michigan:
> >
> > A guy buys a brand new Lincoln Navigator 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
> > the guns, the 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 is
> > going to take a little more effort than an ice
> > hole drill.
> >
> > So, out of the back of the new Navigator 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 are
> > standing
> > (and the new Navigator), because 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. ----BOOM!---- Dog and Navigator are blown
> > to bits and sink 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 a month
> > payments!
> > And you thought your day was not going well?