A guy buys a brand new Lincoln Navigator 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 the guns, the 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 is going to take a little more
effort than an ice hole drill.

So, out of the back of the new Navigator 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), 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.

----BOOM!---- Dog and Navigator are blown to bits and sink 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 has yet to make his the first of
those $560 a month payments!

I heard this story a couple of years ago, but it was with a brand new Jeep Grand Cherokee Limited. They were under consideration for being the first recipients of a Darwin Award while still alive.

There's no shortage of stupidity out there...