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This is supposed to be a true incident, it is comical:
A guy buys a new Lincoln Navigator for $42,500.00, with $560.00 monthly payments. He and a friend go duck hunting in winter when the lakes are frozen. These two guys go out on a lake with the guns, a dog, and the new vehicle. They drive out on the lake ice and get ready. They want to make a natural landing area for the ducks, something for the decoys to float on. In order to make a hole large enough to look something a wandering duck would land on, it requires 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 40 second fuse. Now these two rocket scientists do take into consideration that they want to place the dynamite on the ice far enough from where they are, with the new Navigator, because they don't want to risk slipping on the ice when the 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. Now, remember the dog? It was a highly trained Black Lab used for retrieving. Especially things thrown by the owner. You guessed it, the dog takes off a high rate of dog speed on the ice and captures the stick of dynamite with the burning 40 second fuse about the time it hits the ice.
The men yell, scream, wave their arms and wonder what to do. The dog, believing he has been cheered on, keeps coming. One of the guys grabs a shotgun and shoots the dog but the shotgun is loaded with #8 buckshot, hardly big enough to stop a Black Lab. The dog hesitates a moment, slightly confused, but continues on. Another shot and this time, the dog, still standing, becomes really confused and terrified, thinking these two geniuses have gone insane. The dog takes off to find cover, you guessed it, 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 these two idiots standing there with disbelief on their faces. The insurance company says that sinking a vehicle in a lake by illegal use of explosives is not covered, leaving the heretofore proud owner, who had yet to make the first payment, responsible for those $560.00 a month payments. And you thought you had a bad day!