Reminds me of a story that I heard on Paul Harvey about 25 years ago. A
rancher in Wyoming had caught a Coyote in a live trap one day. He was
so upset about coyotes going after his sheep that he and a buddy got the
coyote out of the trap, tied a couple of sticks of dynamite to it, lit
the fuse and let it go. The confused coyote immediately went and hid
under the rancher's brand new pickup truck - which got destroyed in the
explosion a few seconds later. I'm sure that his insurance company
wasn't too happy with him either!
Kevin Brown
FP TR6
Michael King wrote:
>Thought everyone would get a kick out of this one...just remember this one
>when you have a bright idea next time. Funny how the dog ends up being the
>smart one. Proof that you should think before you talk...
>
>MK
>
>----------
>
>
>Two hunters from Michigan--(true story)
>This is from a radio program, a true report of an incident in
>Michigan: A guy buys a brand new Lincoln Navigator 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 the guns, the dog,
>and of course the new vehicle. They drive out onto the lake
>ice, unload the guns, decoys, dog, etc., and get ready. Now,
>they want to make some kind of a natural landing area for
>the ducks and something for their 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 is 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 location 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 by all the shouting & waving, keeps
>coming. One of the guys grabs the shotgun and shoots the
>dog. The shotgun is loaded with # 8 birdshot, great for
>ducks, but 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 the nearest cover, which happens
>to be under the brand new Navigator.
>----BOOM!---- Dog and Navigator are blown to bits and sink 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 had yet
>to make the first of those $560 a month payments!
>
>And you thought you had bad days.
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