http://www.truthorfiction.com/rumors/d/dynamitedog.htm

You could tell this was an urban legend, when the story starts off saying
"this is a true report". ; )


"N.L. Eckert" wrote in message
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This is from a radio program, a true report of an incident in Michigan:
A guy buys a brand new Lincoln Navigator SUV for $42,500 and has $560
monthly payments. He and a friend go duck hunting in the winter, and of
course all the lakes are frozen over. 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, something 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 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 loc ation far from where they are standing (and the new Navigator),
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 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 the dog. The shotgun is loaded
with #8 buckshot, hardly big enough to stop a Black Lab. The dog stops
for a moment, slightly confused, but continues on. Another shot and this
time t he 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. 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 Navigator is blown to bits and sinks to the bottom
of the lake in a very large hole, leaving the two 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 illegal
use of explosives is NOT COVERED. He still has yet to make the first of
those $560..00 a month payments!!!
And you thought your day was not going well!