Just got this in the mail. Kind of has parallels to the Enron fiasco and Bush in my mind. : )
Subject: Bad Day
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? |
