A story heard on US news radio:

Guy buys brand new Grand Cherokee for 30 some thousand dollars
and has 400+ dollar monthly payments. He immediately gets a hold
of his friend and they go do some male bonding. They go duck
hunting and of course all the lakes are frozen.

These 2 Atomic Brains go to the lake with the guns, the dog, the
beer 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. Remember, it’s all ice and in order to make a hole large
enough to look like something a wandering duck wants to fly down
and land on, it is going to take a little more effort than an
ice hole drill.

Out of the back of the new Grand Cherokee comes a stick of dynamite
with a short, 40 second fuse.

Now these 2 Rocket Scientists do take into consideration that
if they place the stick of dynamite on the ice at a location
far from where they are standing (and the new Grand Cherokee),
they take the risk of slipping on the ice when they run from
the burning fuse and possibly going up in smoke with the resulting
blast. So, they decide to light this 40 second fuse and throw
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. 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 gets the stick of dynamite with the burning 40
second fuse about the time it hits the ice all to the woes of
the 2 idiots yelling, stomping, waving arms and wondering what
the hell to do now.

The dog, well it is happy and heads back from where it came from
moments before, with the stick of dynamite, only to the mounting
woes of the 2 bozo’s now really waving their arms, yelling even
louder and jumping to new heights than ever before. Now one
of the guys decides to think, something that he has never done
before this moment, grabs a shotgun and shoots the dog. The shotgun
is loaded with #8 duck shot, hardly big enough to stop a Black
Lab on its appointed rounds.

Dog stops for a moment, slightly confused and continues on. Another
shot and this time the dog, still standing, becomes really confused
& of course scared, thinking these 2 Nobel Prize winners
have gone insane and takes off to find cover, with the now really
short short fuse burning on this stick of dynamite.

The cover the dogs finds? Underneath the brand new Grand Cherokee
30 some thousand dollar 400+ monthly payment vehicle sitting
on the lake ice.

BOOM !

Dog dies, and it and the brand new Grand Cherokee 30 some thousand
dollar 400+ monthly payment vehicle sink to the bottom of the
lake leaving the 2 candidates for Co-leaders of the Known Universe
standing there with this "I can’t believe this happened"
look on their faces.

Later, the owner of the vehicle calls his insurance company which
tells him that sinking a vehicle in a lake by illegal use of
explosives is not covered. He had yet to make the first of those
400+ a month payments.

I felt pretty sorry for the dog myself.

Enjoy the day!