TRUE CANADIAN STORY heard on a Saskatoon Radio Station and the local newspaper, reporting on the Incident....
A guy buys a new Lincoln Navigator from Merlin Motors i n Saskatoon, so that he and a friend can go duck hunting at Tobin Lake in Winter; Of course the lake is frozen.
These two guys arrive at the lake with their GUNS, a DOG, and of course the NEW TRUCK filled with all their gear.
They decide to make a natural looking water area for the ducks, and 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 truck comes a stick of dynamite with a short 40 second-fuse. Our two brilliant HUNTERS, fearing they could slip on the ice while running, after lighting the fuse -- ;to avoid blowing themselves up -- decide on the following course of action:
They light the 40 second fuse; then, with a mighty thrust, throw the stick of dynamite as far away as possible outward to the lake.
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, grabs the stick of dynamite, with the fast burning fuse, just as it hits the ice!
The two men blink, swallow, & start waving their arms wildly, with veins in their necks popping out like stalks of red rhubarb, screaming and hollering at the dog to STOP!.
The dog, now apparently being cheered on by his master, does not stop, but decides to keeps running toward all the excitement - directly towards THEM!
The other 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.
But the dog stops for a moment, slightly confused, but keeps running.
Another shot, and this time the dog, still standing, becomes totally confused and of course terrified! Thinking these two hunters have gone insane, he tries to hide, taking cover, under the brand new Navigator.
The men are still screaming as they continue running farther away!
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.
Only seconds later ....
"""""""""""""""KAAAAA...BOOOOOOOOOOOOM""""""""""!!!!
The truck is blown to bits, along with the ice beneath it, sinking everything to the bottom of the lake.
The two idiots are left standing there, helplessly watching this in the distance with.....a look ... of ... shock 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. Instead, they are charged and fined. He still has not made even the first of those $560 monthly payments on the $42,500 vehicle!
(A very expensive lesson in duck hunting.)
In case you are wondering....The dog is okay.
- Newspaper item from the Saskatoon Star-Phoenix.
And Westerners always make fun of people in Newfoundland. Priceless!