The Names of the Michiganders are omitted, but you have to wonder 
about the gene pool in that state... DUCK HUNTING WITH DYNAMITE
  
True Story from Michigan, USA
  
Guy buys a brand new Jeep Grand Cherokee for $30,000+, and has
$400.00+ interest 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 
brainiacs go to the lake with their guns, the dog, the beer and, of course, the new
vehicle. They drive out onto the ice. Now, they want to make some kind
of 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.....Soooo, 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 lighting and
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. The Bozos now are REALLY waving
their arms - yelling even louder and generally feeling kind'a panicked.....
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 & of course scared.
Thinking that these two Nobel Prize Winners have gone TOTALLY INSANE, 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 and 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 Known Universe" are left standing there with this 'I can't EVEN 
believe this happened to me' look on their faces. Later, the owner of the vehicle
calls his insurance company and is promptly 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.

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