Attention: TDR Forum Junkies This from a radio program, a true report of a happening in Michigan:
>
> A guy buys a brand new Jeep Grand Cherokee for $38,000 and has $600+
> monthly
> payments. He and a friend go duck hunting and of course all the lakes
> are
> frozen. These two guys go to the lake with the guns, the dog, the beer
> 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 Grand
> Cherokee
> comes a stick of dynamite with a short, 40-second fuse.
>
> Now these two Rocket Scientists do take into consideration that if they
> place the stick of dynamite on the ice at a location
> far from where they are standing (and the new Grand Cherokee), 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 two men yell, scream, wave 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 on. Another
> shott and this time the dog, still standing, becomes really confused and,
> of
> course, terrified thinking these two Nobel Prize winners have gone
> insane.
>
> The dog takes off to find cover ... under the brand new
> Cherokee. ----BOOM!----
>
> Dog and Cherokee 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 had yet to make the first of those$600+ a
> month payments!
>
> A guy buys a brand new Jeep Grand Cherokee for $38,000 and has $600+
> monthly
> payments. He and a friend go duck hunting and of course all the lakes
> are
> frozen. These two guys go to the lake with the guns, the dog, the beer
> 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 Grand
> Cherokee
> comes a stick of dynamite with a short, 40-second fuse.
>
> Now these two Rocket Scientists do take into consideration that if they
> place the stick of dynamite on the ice at a location
> far from where they are standing (and the new Grand Cherokee), 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 two men yell, scream, wave 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 on. Another
> shott and this time the dog, still standing, becomes really confused and,
> of
> course, terrified thinking these two Nobel Prize winners have gone
> insane.
>
> The dog takes off to find cover ... under the brand new
> Cherokee. ----BOOM!----
>
> Dog and Cherokee 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 had yet to make the first of those$600+ a
> month payments!
