True story.

[Dennis McGuckin]

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

A 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 $62,500.00 (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 out 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 were 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 birdshot, 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. The newspaper headline from the Saskatoon Star-Phoenix..



AND THEY MAKE FUN OF PEOPLE FROM NEWFOUNDLAND?

[Lewis McColl]

Thanks Dennis best laugh I have had all day

[Keith at Tregenna]

Lol.

K.

[Doc Vernon]

You got me in Stiches Den
Good one mate!
Cheers

[Des Taff Jenkins]

Hi Den.
I hope they gave the dog a medal, and a new home.
Des

[cappy]

well den you certainly win the coconut with that .....lol lol cappy

[happy daze john in oz]

It goes to show dogs have a lot more sense, and do not like hot tings on their bum.

[vic mcclymont]

Brilliant Den.
Vic

[Harry Nicholson]

It's a great yarn, but could be a version of one that's been rolling around for ages: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/je...alf-the-price/

I enjoyed it, even so.

[happy daze john in oz]

Now Den, had that been poor old Paddy it would have made sense.