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Bret

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My mom thought I'd like this - figured I'd see what the forum thinks?

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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 are standing (and the new Navigator truck), 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, 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 under 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 even the first of those $560.00 a month payments!!!

And you thought your day was not going well....

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Are you sure that's true?

Sounds pretty familiar to another story I heard somewhere, with a few things changed around.
 
Bret, if it makes you feel better - from what I've seen of the good folks of Michigan I wouldn't be in the least bit surprised that the story has some truth to it, even though we know it's just folklore.

Point in case... Before Christmas the Detroit Free Press reported, with a photo, the story of the hapless ice fishermen who drove their fairly new, shiny SUV out onto the ice to see if the ice was thick enough to fish on. Needless to say it wasn't. Luckily for them, they were only in about 3 of 4ft of water so they were able to get to shore and call for help. A wrecker pulled the vehicle out.

And either last winter or the winter before, two snowmobilers were killed during a game of "chicken" which involved them driving at each other, at speed, to see who would lose his nerve first and swerve out of the way. Neither of them chickened out. Each snowmobile was estimated at a speed of between 50 and 70mph by witnesses. That's a head on impact of 100 - 140mph.

Lastly, I received this cute little video this week. Goes to prove that any dog will "retreive"!
You might want to "right-click" and download it first, it's about 750K.

Pepe!

RG
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As a guy named Rodney once said (paraphrased a bit) "Can't we just enjoy the joke without dissecting it?"
 
Sure the story was far-fetched. Truth is I never really thought it was but I did get a good chuckle out of it so I decided to share. The SUV blowing up was over the top.
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RG Great video. I sent a copy to a friend who owns one of those little dogs.
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<blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><hr>Originally posted by racing girl:
Bret, if it makes you feel better - from what I've seen of the good folks of Michigan I wouldn't be in the least bit surprised that the story has some truth to it,...<hr></blockquote>

What's this?!?!?! Breaking bad on Michiganders?

I may have lived in Indiana for the past 8 years, but I know where my loyalties lie. We true Michiganders know winter and how to handle it. I'm guessing that the people in your story were either visiting from Ohio, or the story was really from Wisconsin and they got the location wrong.

"Si Quaeris Peninsulam Amoenam Circumspice
 
<blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><hr>Originally posted by lawguy:

What's this?!?!?! Breaking bad on Michiganders?
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Heck no, but being on the "outside", ie not from Michigan, and not even from America, I'm often in the wonderful position to be able to stand back from a situation and take a good long look at it, not assessing it as a local might. Let's just say that my opinions about what happened are often "different" than that of my friends or colleagues.

And no, the folks who drove their SUV onto the ice were from Michigan, but I have a feeling that the snowmobilers were Canadian, but I couldn't quite remember. Their accident did take place in MI though!

Oh, and before I forget... You're probably going to tell me that the "Do not overtake when opposing traffic is present" road signs are not for the benefit of the locals. Yeah, right!
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Maybe I should tell you about my good Michigan friend, Leah, who when looking at some photos of England asked "You have grass in England??"
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You know, if you like it so much you could always move back here....
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RG
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<blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><hr>Originally posted by racing girl:
...Oh, and before I forget... You're probably going to tell me that the "Do not overtake when opposing traffic is present" road signs are not for the benefit of the locals. Yeah, right!
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You know, if you like it so much you could always move back here....
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RG
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I laughed out loud when I read your comment about the sign. I saw one of those for the first time near Traverse City when I was on my honeymoon years ago. I thought it so odd, I took a picture.

And don't think I haven't considered moving back. However, right now, I can only practice in Indiana and am happy with my firm. I am, however, planning on taking the Michigan Bar Exam next year.

Y'know, I guess we do have our share of odd ducks (so to speak)...I mean there is the entire UP.
 
...and I hate to break this to you, but practice never makes perfect in those contexts. It hopefully makes "better", but certainly not perfect.
 
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