Of Dogs and Dynamite !!!

[Canada Bob]

                                          Have you heard about the two duck hunters from Prince Albert ?

       

                                                                ABSOLUTELY TRUE STORY

                        HEARD ON A SASKATOON  RADIO STATION  REPORTING ON  THE INCIDENT.

     

A guy buys a new Lincoln Navigator from Merlin Motors in Saskatoon for $42,500.00 (with monthly payments of $560.00).   

He picks up his friend to go duck hunting at Tobin Lake, of course the lake is frozen. 

       

They go on the lake with their GUNS, a DOG, and of course the New NAVIGATOR, don't get ahead of me yet...

       

They decide they want to make a natural looking  water area  for the ducks, 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  40 second-fuse.

Now our two Rocket Scientists, afraid they might  slip on the ice while trying to run away after lighting the fuse (becoming toast), 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 I mentioned the NAVIGATOR, the GUNS, &  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 being cheered on by his master, keeps coming.

       

One hunter panics, grabs the shotgun and shoots at the dog !

       

The shotgun is loaded with #8 bird shot, hardly big enough to stop an 80 lb 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, thinking these two geniuses have gone insane !

       

So, the dog takes off to find cover... under the brand new Navigator.

       

The men continue to scream as they run.

In the midst of all this confusion, the red hot exhaust pipe on the truck touches the dogs rear end,

he yelps, drops the dynamite under the truck and takes off after his master.     

       

Then""""""""""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.       

       

The guy had yet to make the first of those $560.00 a month payments...

       

As for the dog, well except for now being gun shy and a touch deaf he's OK.

       

Canada Bob.

[+Gringo]

That is pure class. They'll be the talk of the clubs and bars for years to come.  :015: :015: :015:

[Scotty]

Unfortunately an urban myth ....

[Dmacca]

:015:  nice one C-Bob we assume the dog also had a sore arse.

[+Gringo]

Unfortunately an urban myth ....

Aaaaw, booger! Still funny though.  :015: :009:

[Kingsmills]

A rural myth surely ?

[tm4tj]

A mythtake even :017:

[Johnboy]

I can believe that story.....

During the long hot summer of 2006, I was walking my highly trained black lab around the perimeter of Fraser Park, whilst some chaps were playing cricket.... Someone managed to hit a half decent shot through the boundary which I expertly fielded before tossing it towards one of their fielders.... Unfortunately highly trained black lab, showing a remarkable turn of speed for an old dog, took off and managed to get to the ball and sink his teeth into it, just before the fielder guy reached it....  The ball had only picked up a few teeth-marks but strangely, these cricketing guys just didn't see the funny side of it...... :024:

[Dmacca]

Johnboy a certain Duncan Fletcher might be looking for a dog like yours.

[+Gringo]

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