A man buys a brand new Jeep Grand Cherokee
for $30,000 (with $400+ monthly payments) and decides to christen his new car
with a duck-hunting trip. So with a friend, he takes his dog to the lake. But
the guys need a natural landing area for the ducks and the decoys to float on,
and the lakes are completely frozen. In order to make a hole large enough to
look “casual” enough for a wandering duck to just land on, they decide an
ice-hole drill won’t be good enough. So out comes a stick of dynamite with a
short, 40-second fuse.
The guys realize there’s a risk of slipping while they try to run away from
the lit dynamite, so instead, they decide to throw it as far as they can. But
the dog is an exceptionally trained lab, and when they throw the lit dynamite,
he runs to retrieve it. As he runs back, the two men shout and yell, waving
their arms, and the dog, cheered on, keeps running. One of the guys then decides
that a dead dog is better than their own deaths, so he grabs a gun and shoots
the dog. But the bullets meant for duck hunting aren’t enough to take down a
lab, and it only slows him down. He’s confused, but keeps running, so the man
takes another shot at the dog. Now, the dog is even more confused, and getting
scared (and the fuse on the dynamite is very short), so instead of coming toward
his owner, he decides to find cover…and does so under the Jeep. Boom! goes the
dog and the brand new car into the bottom of the lake.
The insurance company wouldn’t cover a sunken vehicle in a lake by illegal
use of explosives, and the man had yet to pay for the first of his $400+ monthly
payments.
