True story??

[Griff guy]

I got this e-mailed to me a while back.

Anybody ever see this before?

TRUE STORY OF TWO HUNTERS IN MINNISOTA

>

> This is from a radio program, a true report of an

> incident in Minnesota:

> A guy buys a brand new Lincoln Navigator truck for

> $42,500 and has $560 monthly payments.

> He and a friend go duck hunting in winter, and of

> course all the lakes are frozen.

> These two guys go out on the lake with their guns, a

> dog, and of course 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, for the decoys to float on.

> In order to make a hole large enough to look like

> something a wandering duck would fly down and land on

> it's going to take a little more effort than an ice

> hole drill.

> So, out of the back of the new Navigator truck comes a

> stick of dynamite with a short 40 second fuse.

> Now, these two rocket Scientists do take into

> consideration that they want to place the stick of

> dynamite on the ice at a location far from where

> they, (and the new Navigator truck), are standing.

> 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 light the 40 second fuse and throw the dynamite.

>

> Remember a couple of paragraphs back when I mentioned

> the vehicle, 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 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 two 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 at the dog. The shotgun is loaded with #8 birdshot, hardly big

> enough to stop a Black Lab. The dog stops for a

> moment, slightly confused, but continues on.

> Another shot and this time the dog, still standing,

> becomes really confused and of course terrified,

> thinking these two geniuses have gone insane.

> The dog takes off to find cover, under the brand new

> Navigator truck.

> The men continue to yell as they run.

> The exhaust pipe on the truck is still hot, so the dog

> yelps and drops the dynamite under the truck, and

> takes off after his master.

> Then --BOOM-- the truck is blown to bits and sinks to

> the bottom of the lake in a very large hole, leaving

> the two (Contact US Regarding This Word) 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 illegal

> use of explosives is not COVERED.

> He still had yet to make the first of those $560.00 a

> month payments!!!

> And you thought your day was not going well.

>

[LABS4ME]

That's been going around for at least 4 years... I say it's B.S.! Very funny, but B.S.

Good Luck!

Ken

[iland99]

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

Even without that link the story can't be true. Duck hunting when the ice is so thick you can drive on it?? Using #8 shot on ducks??

[Little Joe]

Agreed. The version I got (many years ago) said the hunters were from Michigan!

[koWALLEYEski]

I heard that ATLEAST 3 years ago. I dont see it being true.

[FOOT]

As you all say THIS AIN'T NO TRUE STORY. I might be a little older then most of you cause I first heard this story over 25 years ago. I didn't believe it then when it was told about a new pickup and I'm not believing it now.