PhillyKev 0 #1 December 5, 2003 Sent to me as a true story. Don't know about that, but humorous. Two hunters from Wisconsin -- (true story) This is from a radio program, a true report of an incident in Wisconsin: A guy buys a brand new Lincoln Navigator truck 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 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 truck 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, (and the new Navigator truck), are standing. They don't want to take the risk of slipping on the ice when they run from the burning fuseand 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 the 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 truck. 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 truck 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 had yet to make the first of those $560.00 a month payments!!! And you thought your day was not going well --- Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
n2skdvn 0 #2 December 5, 2003 false snopes!!!!if my calculations are correct SLINKY + ESCULATOR = EVERLASTING FUN my site Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
RevJim 0 #3 December 5, 2003 Yep, all true, except that they were from Illinois, and traveled to hunt in Wisconsin, out of season. Us REAL cheeseheads know the only time you use tnt is during summer fishing runs on the flowages. It's your life, live it! Karma RB#684 "Corcho", ASK#60, Muff#3520, NCB#398, NHDZ#4, C-33989, DG#1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Chute 0 #4 December 5, 2003 I too think it is FALSE. I use that site to bust a lot of military he said / she said bull sh!tBottomless Beers and Blue Skies! * Brother_Brian * D.S.W.F.S.B. #2 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
PhillyKev 0 #5 December 5, 2003 I believe I said I doubt it's true...but it's still a funny story. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
steve1 5 #6 December 5, 2003 It's a great story. I heard it a couple years ago. I too have wondered about whether or not it really happened. It sure could have. My lab will automatically fetch anything thrown....Steve1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
kelel01 1 #7 December 5, 2003 I'm really glad that it's not true . . . I was getting really upset for the poor dog. My eyes are still all welled up. So, good. Kelly Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Kennedy 0 #8 December 5, 2003 The dog was ok in the story, so fictional or not, no lab was hurt.witty subliminal message Guard your honor, let your reputation fall where it will, and outlast the bastards. 1* Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
WFFC 1 #9 December 5, 2003 QuoteYep, all true, except that they were from Illinois, and traveled to hunt in Wisconsin, out of season. They were actually transplants and when they couldn't pass the IIT (Illinois Intelligence Test) they were deported back to their land of cheese. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
indyz 1 #10 December 5, 2003 Last winter some kids were driving around my neighborhood and noticed that the boat ramps to the lake were open. The park district does this so that the snowmobilers can get on the lake without ripping up the parks and so that ice fishermen can put their shanties on the ice. Well, these kids decided that they were going to cruise the lake in their Explorer. Did I mention it was getting towards spring and the ice wasn't especially solid? No, I guess I didn't. Anyway, the dumbasses apparently stopped about 100 yards off shore and the wheels when through the ice. While the kids were panicking the car sunk further. They eventually climbed out of the windows after getting a good soaking. The car ended up completely submerged with the roof a few feet under the surface and a truck sized hole in the ice to mark it's location. The soaked and freezing kids wandered ashore, found a phone, and called their dad to pick them up. They told their dad what happened. The dad then called the police and REPORTED IT STOLEN. I shit you not. So, back to the big hole in the ice. The vehicle was clearly visible to anybody standing at the edge of the hole and looking into the water. It wasn't long before somebody found it and called the police. The fire department responded, put divers in the water, and quickly figured out what had happened. The truck was recovered three days after it sunk by using a tow truck to drag it under the ice along the lake bed to the shore. The Explorer was a total loss. The dad ended up being fined $1000 per day for creating an environmental hazard, the cost of bringing the divers out, and the cost of hiring a tow company to do the recovery. There was talk of him being charged with filing a false police report, but I don't know if anything ever became of it. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
PhillyKev 0 #11 December 5, 2003 How'd they know it wasn't stolen and put there? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
freeflyguy 0 #12 December 5, 2003 Alien FIB's, no doubt ---------------------------- bzzzz Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
indyz 1 #13 December 5, 2003 The police somehow ended up talking to the guy whose phone they used. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
KawiZX900 0 #14 December 5, 2003 how much do you think the people at SNopes get paid? that'd be a fun job... as far as this one gos I thought you could kinda see bullshit a mile away.... It was a good story though.. Accelerate hard to get them looking, then slam on the fronts and rollright beside the car, hanging the back wheel at eye level for a few seconds. Guaranteed reaction- Dave Sonsky Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
RevJim 0 #15 December 5, 2003 QuoteQuoteYep, all true, except that they were from Illinois, and traveled to hunt in Wisconsin, out of season. They were actually transplants and when they couldn't pass the IIT (Illinois Intelligence Test) they were deported back to their land of cheese. Aaah, so they were from California? It's your life, live it! Karma RB#684 "Corcho", ASK#60, Muff#3520, NCB#398, NHDZ#4, C-33989, DG#1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
n2skdvn 0 #16 December 5, 2003 I get so much e-mail of that stuff from friends that i started sending links back to them from snopes kinda a pet peeve of mineif my calculations are correct SLINKY + ESCULATOR = EVERLASTING FUN my site Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ChasingBlueSky 0 #17 December 5, 2003 Don't forget about the tale of some bored skydivers during a winter weather hold at a certain snowed-in midwest dropzone (SDC) that has it's own pond. They wanted to see how thick the ice was and take the pickup truck for a ride on the ice. Well, it worked once....the next three times, um....it didn't Thank god for heavy duty tow straps! If I am not mistaken, a certain Sunshine was in the truck at the time._________________________________________ you can burn the land and boil the sea, but you can't take the sky from me.... I WILL fly again..... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
