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Offline Gabby

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Duck hunting?
« on: July 18, 2011, 08:38:08 pm »
I haven't a clue if it's true or not, but it is funny.
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UNBELIEVABLE!!

ABSOLUTELY A TRUE STORY HEARD ON A WISCONSIN RADIO STATION

REPORTING ON THE INCIDENT.

A guy buys a new Lincoln Navigator for $42,500.00 with monthly payments of $560.00.
 
He and a friend go duck hunting in upper Wisconsin .
It's mid-winter.............and of course all of the lakes are frozen.
 
These two guys go out on the ice with their GUNS, a DOG, and of course the new NAVIGATOR.
They decide they want to make a natural looking open water area for the ducks to focus on, 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.

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 dog's rear end...................he yelps, drops the dynamite under the truck and takes off after his master.

Then KA 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. And he still had yet to make
the first of those $560.00 a month payments.

The dog is okay....doing fine.

And to think you thought all Rednecks lived in the South.......

 
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Re: Duck hunting?
« Reply #1 on: July 19, 2011, 08:41:03 am »
LOL  ::)  ::)  ::)
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Re: Duck hunting?
« Reply #2 on: July 19, 2011, 11:57:26 am »
Born and raised in Wisconsin, now living in Minnesota, I totally believe that this could be true. Lol, I'm actually thinking the two guys could be relatives, lol (wait, that's not so funny)
I actually really appreciate the thought of ice fishing. Today it is 95 with an 80% relative humidity. More tropical then the tropics.

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Re: Duck hunting?
« Reply #3 on: July 19, 2011, 08:34:38 pm »
Southern tip of Cuba is tropical, but it has one advantage. Ocean breezes. Spent a year and a half there in the sixties. The dreaded GITMO!
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Re: Duck hunting?
« Reply #4 on: July 19, 2011, 08:40:18 pm »
I'm with you mrsn, I've lived in Wi most of my life and I believe that could be any one of my neighbors ;)
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Re: Duck hunting?
« Reply #5 on: July 21, 2011, 10:18:12 am »
Gabby:
Funny story, thanks.

Your instinct about its lack of truthfulness is accurate. I checked Snopes and this story has been around for many years with several variations dating back to a story written around 1900.

Snopes posted a variation that circulated widely on the internet around 1990.

That version is very similar to the one you posted, but in it the dog was named.
His name was "Napolean", and unfortunatly Napolean was killed by the explosion. His headstone read:







"Here lies

Napolean     -----    Blown Apart"



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Re: Duck hunting?
« Reply #6 on: July 21, 2011, 10:25:16 pm »
oooohhhhhhhhhhhhhhh, that is good!!
I love the smell of saw dust in the morning.

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Re: Duck hunting?
« Reply #7 on: July 22, 2011, 01:38:30 am »
Just don't trust Snopes on everything!

I'm not surprised it's been around for a while, but I put on here for entertainment so it doesn't matter.
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