Subject: Duck Hunters in Wisconsin


ABSOLUTELY 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 mid-winter; and of course all of the lakes are frozen. These two guys go on a lake with their GUNS, a DOG, and of course the New NAVIGATOR.


They decide they want to make a natural looking water area for the ducks, 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 lite 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 stalks of 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 takes 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 dogs 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. He still had yet to make the first of those $560.00 a month payments. The dog is okay.


Newspaper item from Wisconsin...


AND THEY MAKE FUN OF PEOPLE IN THE SOUTH?!!!

The version I heard was a Jeep grand cherokee about 8 years ago.

Here's the page on Snopes.com debunking it.

http://www.snopes.com/critters/cruelty/dynamite.asp

Besides -- who the hell shoots ducks with #8 shot?

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Originally posted by Ben589:
Besides -- who the hell shoots ducks with #8 shot?

The same idiots who drive out on a frozen lake, throw something they do ot want back without restaining their retriever.

Hog Killer

My Dad said this was around in the 1950s too.

I always wondered how these people just happened to have a stick of dynamite in their truck when they were going duck hunting.

My exhaust pipe doesn't get red hot. The catalytic converter is hot under the heat shield but if anything in a new car is getting red hot they have a serious problem.

One stick of dynamite will not "blow the truck to bits". Don't ask me how I know this, I just do.

(Let's just say it involves a two teenage boys, a 7,000 acre ranch full of ground squirrel holes, some 40 year old unstable dynamite and a 72 Chevy 4WD 1/2 ton truck.)

Fjold. Details. We need details. Tell us the rest of the story.
Paul B.

i heard basically the same story except it involved some guys fishing and a shark kept taking their caught fish before they could reel them in. they stuck some sort of explosive in some bait and threw it at the shark, who grabbed it and swam under the boat. big boom...sunk the boat, ect, ect. seems this one has been around awhile. it's a good story though

Don't forget the two guys trying to get rid of a cat with dynamite and blew up their house/cabin when it ran back inside.

Hog Killer

Heard same story about two texas boys
tying a stick of dynomite to a jack rabbit
and a new truck 20 yrs ago

What, you guys don't carry TNT when you duck hunt? What if you want to go fishing?

We got the same story here in Iceland, but the dog is an Irish setter.
This story pops up every 5 years or so

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Originally posted by 375hnh:
What, you guys don't carry TNT when you duck hunt? What if you want to go fishing?

DuPont fishing lures work all of the time.

Hog Killer

Well guy's, I hate to burst your balloon but a very similar story to that was penned by an Aussie auther called Henry Lawson many years ago. He was born in 1867 and died in 1922. It is a short story called "The Loaded Dog". Here is a link to it.
http://whitewolf.newcastle.edu.au/words/authors/L/Lawso...mates/loadeddog.html
It was actually part of a series of stories about a bloke called Joe Wilson and his mates.
Pete

quote:

Originally posted by Fjold:
One stick of dynamite will not "blow the truck to bits". Don't ask me how I know this, I just do.

(Let's just say it involves a two teenage boys, a 7,000 acre ranch full of ground squirrel holes, some 40 year old unstable dynamite and a 72 Chevy 4WD 1/2 ton truck.)

That's a hit'n'run. You owe us the whole story now.