Duck Hunt - True Story From Michigan, USA

Guy buys a brand new Jeep Grand Cherokee for $30,000+, and has $400.00+ in
monthly payments.  He's pretty proud of this rig, and gets a hold of his
friend to do some male bonding with the new ride.  They go duck hunting and
of course all the lakes are frozen.

These two bright boys go to the lake with their guns, the dog, the beer and,
of course, the new vehicle. They drive out on to the ice.  They want to
create a natural landing area to attract ducks - something the decoys will
float on.

Remember it's all ice, and in order to make a hole large enough to interest
a flock of ducks and a hole big enough to entice ducks to land, they needed
to use a little more than an ice hole drill...Sooo, out of the back of the
brand-new Jeep Grand Cherokee comes a stick of dynamite with a short 40
second fuse.

Now, to their credit, these two rocket scientists DID take into
consideration that if they placed the stick of dynamite on the ice at a
location far from where they (and the new Grand Cherokee) would be waiting
and ran back quickly, they would risk slipping on the ice as they ran from
the imminent explosion and could possibly go up in smoke with the resulting
blast.  After a little deliberation, they come up with something less than a
great idea of THROWING the dynamite, which is what they end up doing.

Remember a couple of paragraphs back when I mentioned the vehicle, the beer,
the guns AND THE DOG????? Yes, the dog.  The driver's pet 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,
reaching the stick of dynamite with the burning 40 second fuse about the
time it hits the ice - all to the woe of the two idiots who are now yelling,
stomping, waving arms and wondering what the heck to do.

Now... The dog is happy and now heads back toward the "hunters" with the
stick of dynamite.

I think we all can picture the ever-increasing concern on the part of the
brain trust, as the loyal Labrador retriever approaches.

Finally, one of the guys decides to think - something that neither had done
before this moment, grabs a shotgun and shoots the dog.  This sounds better
than it really is, because the shotgun was loaded with #8 duckshot and
hardly effective enough to stop a black Lab.

The dog DID stop for a moment, slightly confused, but then continued on.
Another shot, and this time the dog - still standing, became REALLY confused
and of course scared.  The pooch takes off to find cover with a now
extremely short fuse still burning on the stick of dynamite.  The cover the
dog finds?

Underneath the brand new Grand Cherokee worth 30-some thousand dollars, the
$400.00+ monthly payment vehicle that is sitting nearby on the lake ice
BOOM!  Dog dies, vehicle sinks to bottom of lake, and these two "Co-Leaders
of the Universe" are left standing there with the well known "Oh, Shit"
look on their faces.

When the owner of the vehicle called his insurance company he was informed
that sinking a vehicle in a lake by illegal use of explosives is NOT covered
on his policy...

He had yet to make his first car payment.