Don't know if this is true or not but I got it on email

Dani

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DID YOU HEAR ABOUT THE TWO DUCK HUNTERS FROM PRINCE ALBERT?

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 and a friend go duck hunting at Tobin Lake
in mid-October; and
of course the lake is frozen.

These two guys go on a lake with their GUNS, a DOG,
and of course the New NAVIGATOR.

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 short 40 second-fuse. Now our two Rocket Scientists,
afraid they might slip on the ice while trying to run away after
lighting the fuse (and becoming toast, along with the Navigator), 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 when I mentioned
the NAVIGATOR, 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 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 cheered on
by his master, keeps coming. One hunter panics, grabs the shotgun and
shoots the dog. !

The shotgun is loaded with #8 bird shot, hardly big enough to
stop a 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, thinks these two
geniuses have gone insane. The dog takes off to find cover, under the
brand new Navigator.

The men continue to scream as they run. 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. He still had yet to make the first of
those $560.00 a month payments...

In case you are wondering...The dog is okay...

Newspaper item from the Saskatoon
Star-Phoenix..


AND THEY MAKE FUN OF PEOPLE IN NEWFOUNDLAND
?
 
I've never heard that variation...definately been updated and now it takes place in Canada. I wonder if something like that really did happen one time and the other stories are just variations.
 
Ha! You had a MS DOS computer in '96. That's child abuse!!

I like this variation much better because the dog is OK.

Hitch
 
I agree Hitch, but the guy did try to shoot it with "bird shot". Why did he have 8's anyway...I thought they were going duck hunting. I've actually heard this story told by guys that put local names of lakes and places into it and truly believe it. Maybe in Bizarro World it happens everyday?
 
Go to www.snopes.com they debunk the story. Besides, duck hunter's don't use #8 bird shot, and a highly trained retriever doesn't make a retireve until sent...and they don't exactly haul ass on ice either. 40 seconds might be too short for a dog to cover 50 yards there, 50 yards back...it would be slippin and slidin all over the place. Then again, people who buy vehicles that expensive that have no utility value whatsoever need to have that happen to them.hehehe

Hunter
 
AND...they control guns viciously in Canada..but not dynomite?? I always take the explosives out of my back seat before going to Canada.
 
Dani,


If you go to short stories by Jack London and read "Moon Face" I think you will see the simularity.

This comes aroud every couple of years.
 
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