DID YOU HEAR ABOUT THE TWO DUCK HUNTERS FROM PRINCE ALBERT, SASKATCHWAN? A TRUE STORY HEARD ON A SASKATOON RADIO STATION REPORTING ON THE INCIDENT.
A guy buys a new Lincoln Navigator from Merlin Motors in
Saskatoon for $42,500.00 (with monthly payments of $560.00). He and a friend go
duck hunting at Tobin Lake in mid-October; and of course the lake is
frozen.
These two guys go on the 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 light 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""""""""""KAAAAA...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... In case you are wondering...The dog is okay...
And what is the moral of this story:
I STILL DON"T HAVE ENOUGH AMMO!!!!
