It takes brains to do this

[Guest guest]

This is from a radio program, a true report of anincident in Michigan:A guy buys a brand new Lincoln Navigator for $42,500and has $560 monthly payments. He and a friend go duckhunting in winter, and of course all the lakes arefrozen. The two guys go out on the lake with theirguns, a dog, and of course the new vehicle. Theydrive out onto the lake ice and get ready. Now, theywant to make some kind of a natural landing area forthe ducks, something for the decoys to float on. Inorder to make a hole large enough to look likesomething a wandering duck would fly down and land on, it is going to take a little more effort than an icehole drill. So, out of the back of the new Navigatorcomes a stick of dynamite with a short, 40-secondfuse.Now these two Rocket Scientists do take intoconsideration that they want to place the stick ofdynamite on the ice at a location far from where theyare standing and from the new Navigator, because theydon't want to take the risk of slipping on the icewhen they run from the burning fuse and possibly goup in smoke with the resulting blast. They light the40-second fuse and throw the dynamite. Remember acouple of paragraphs back when I mentioned thevehicle, the guns and the dog?Let's talk about the dog: A highly trained Black Labused for RETRIEVING. Especially things thrown bythe owner. You guessed it, the dog takes off at ahigh rate of doggy speed on the ice and captures thestick of dynamite with the burning 40-second fuseabout 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 guysgrabs the shotgun and shoots the dog. The shotgun isloaded with # 8 buckshot, hardly big enough to stop aBlack Lab. The dog stops for a moment, slightlyconfused, but continues on. Another shot and thistime the dog. still standing, becomes really confusedand of course terrified, thinking these two geniuseshave gone insane.The dog takes off to find cover, under the brand newNavigator. The men continue to yell as they run. Theexhaust pipe on the truck is still hot, so the dogyelps and drops the dynamite under the truck, andtakes off after his master. Then -BOOM- the truck isblown to bits and sinks to the bottom of the lake in avery large hole, leaving the two idiots standing therewith this "I can't believe this happened" look ontheir faces.The insurance company says that sinking a vehicle in alake by illegal use of explosives is not covered. Hestill had yet to make the first of those $580 a monthSUV payments.And you thought your day was not going well?