Duck Hunting in Michigan

16 August 2012, 13:01

Duckhunting in Michigan
Do you have relatives in Michigan?
This from a radio program, a TRUE report of a happening in MICHIGAN:
A guy buys a brand new Jeep Grand Cherokee for $30,000 and has $400+ monthly payments.
He and a friend go duck hunting and, of course, all the lakes are frozen. These 2 guys go to the
lake with the guns, the dog, the beer and 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. Wandering if the ducks 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 2 rocket scientists do take into consideration that they should place the dynamite at a
location far from where they are standing (and the new Grand Cherokee), mainly 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 2 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 duck shot, hardly big enough to stop a Black Lab.
The dog stops for a moment, slightly confused, but continues coming. Another shot 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, (with the now really
short fuse burning on the stick of dynamite) and gets 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 2 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 use of explosives is illegal and is
not covered, so he still has to make those $400+ monthly payments.
And you thought your day was not going well!