A guy buys a brand new Jeep Grand Cherokee for $30,000. And has $400+ monthly
payments. He and a friend go duck hunting and, of course, all the lakes are frozen. These 2
guys go to the lake with he guns, the dog the beer and 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. Out of the back of the New Grand Cherokee comes a
stick of dynamite with a short, 40 second fuse. Now these two rocket scientists do take
into consideration that they should place the dynamite at a location far from where they are
standing (and the new Grand Cherokee), mainly 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 decide to light this 40 second fuse and throw the dynamite.
Remember a couple of paragraphs back, when I mentioned the vehicle, the beer, the guns
and the dog? Yes, 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 2 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 duck shot, hardly big enough to stop a Black Lab. The dog stops
for a moment, slightly confused, but continues coming. Another shot and this time the dog,
still standing, becomes really confused and of course terrified, thinking these 2 Nobel Prize
winners have gone insane. The dog takes off to find cover, (with the now really short fuse
burning on the stick of dynamite) and gets under the brand new Cherokee... dog and
Cherokee are blown to bits and sink to the bottom of the lake in a very large hole, leaving
the 2 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 use of explosives is illegal and is
not covered. And he still has to make those $400+ a month payments!! And you thought
your day did not go well! I'd have laughed harder, if I didn't feel so bad for the dog. |
