IJMC - Poor Pooch

I wonder if the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals ever got 
involved in this one...                                             -dave






 
This is a true story as told on the Lewis Floorwax Show this morning on 
103.5 FM The Fox Radio in Denver.  This guy buys a brand new Grand 
Cherokee for 30 some thousand dollars and has 400+ dollar monthly 
payments. He immediately gets ahold of his friend and they go do some 
male bonding. They go duck hunting and of course all the lakes are 
frozen. 
     
They go to the lake with the guns, the dog, the beer and of course the 
new vehicle. They drive out onto the lake ice and get ready. Now, they 
want to make a natural landing area for the ducks, something for the 
decoys to float on. Remember, it's all ice and in order to make a hole 
large enough to look like something a wandering duck wants to fly down 
and land on, it is going to take a little more effort drilling a hole in 
the ice.  Out of the back of the new Grand Cherokee comes a stick of 
dynamite with a short, 40 second fuse. 
     
Now they do take into consideration that if they place the stick of 
dynamite on the ice at a location far from where they are standing (and the 
new Grand Cherokee), they take the risk of slipping on the ice when they 
run from the burning fuse and possibly going up in smoke with the resulting 
blast. So, they decide to light this 40 second fuse and throw the dynamite 
which is what they end up doing.  Remember a couple of paragraphs back 
about 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 gets the stick of dynamite with the burning 40 second fuse about 
the time it hits the ice all to the woes of the 2 idiots yelling, 
stomping, waving arms and wondering what the hell to do now. The dog is 
happy and heads back from where it came from moments before, with the 
stick of dynamite. They are now really waving their arms, yelling even 
louder and jumping higher than before. One of the guys decides to think, 
something that he has never done before this moment, grabs a shotgun and 
shoots the dog. The shotgun is loaded with #8 duck shot, hardly big 
enough to stop a Black Lab on its appointed rounds. Dog stops for a 
moment, slightly confused and continues on. 
     
Another shot and this time the dog, still standing, becomes really confused 
of course scared, thinking they have gone insane, takes off to find cover, 
with the now really short short fuse still burning on the stick of 
dynamite. The cover the dog finds? Underneath the brand new Grand 
Cherokee-the 30 some thousand dollar and 400+ monthly payment 
vehicle-sitting on the ice. 
     
[ BOOM ] 
     
Dog dies and takes the brand new 30 some thousand dollar 400+ 
monthly payment Grand Cherokee vehicle to the bottom of the lake leaving 
the 2 guys standing there with this "I can't believe this happened" look 
on their faces.  Later, the owner of the vehicle calls his insurance 
company which tells him that sinking a vehicle in a lake by illegal use 
of explosives is not covered. He had yet to make the first of those 400+ 
a month payments.