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Two Duck Hunters

HAVE YOU HEARD ABOUT THE TWO DUCK HUNTERS FROM WISCONSIN? ABSOLUTELY A

TRUE STORY HEARD ON A WISCONSIN RADIO STATION REPORTING ON THE INCIDENT.

A guy buys a new Lincoln Navigator for $42,500.00 (with monthly payments of

$560.00).

He and a friend go duck hunting in upper Wi sconsin. It's mid-winter; and of

course all of the lakes are frozen. These two guys go out on the ice with their

GUNS, a DOG, and of course the new NAVIGATOR. They decide they want to make a

natural looking open water area for the ducks to focus on, something for the

decoys to float on.

Now making a hole in the ice large enough to invite a passing duck, is going to

take a little more power than the average drill auger can produce.

So, out of the back of the new Navigator comes a stick of dynamite with a short

40 second-fuse. Now our two Rocket Scientists, afraid they might slip on the ice

while trying to run away after lighting the fuse (and becoming toast, along with

the Navigator), decide on the following course of action: they light the 40

second fuse; then, with a mighty thrust, they throw the stick of dynamite as far

away as possible.

Remember a couple of paragraphs back when I mentioned the NAVIGATOR, 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 across

the ice at a high rate of speed and grabs the stick of dynamite, with the

burning 40-second fuse, just as it hits the ice.

The two men swallow, blink, start waving their arms and, with veins in their

necks swelling to resemble st alks o f rhubarb, scream and holler at the dog to

stop. The dog, now apparently cheered on by his master, keeps coming.

One hunter panics, grabs the shotgun and shoots the dog. The shotgun is loaded

with #8 bird shot, hardly big enough to stop a Black Lab. The dog stops for a

moment, slightly confused, then continues on. Another shot, and this time the

dog, still standing, becomes really confused and of course terrified, thinks

these two geniuses have gone insane. The dog take s off to find cover, UNDER the

brand new Navigator.

The men continue to scream as they run. The red hot exhaust pipe on the truck

touches the dog's rear end, he yelps, drops the dynamite under the truck and

takes off after his master.

Then " " " " " " " " " " BOOOOOOOOOOOOM " " " " " " " " " " " " ! ! ! !

The truck is blown to bits and sinks to the bottom of the lake, leaving the two

idiots standing there with " I can't believe this just happened " looks on their

faces.

The insurance company says that sinking a vehicle in a lake by illegal use of

explosives is NOT COVERED by the policy. And he still had yet to make the first

of those $560.00 a month payments.

The dog is okay..doing fine.