Re: FW: Shoot the Dog and Wack the Mole!

[Ebony <gillS1@zianet.com>]

Hey Guys,

More stuff on the Darwin Awards:

	Should be in the running for honorable mention for the Darwin Award. At
least for the poor dog.
	The following is an account of how stupid certain members of the human
race can be. This is straight from an insurance claim file.
	Guy buys brand new Grand Cherokee for 30 some thousand dollars and has
400+ dollar monthly payments.  He and a friend go duck hunting and of
course all the lakes are frozen.
	They 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.
	Naturally, their Black Lab used for retrieving, especially things
thrown by the owner, 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, now happy, heads back to 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 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, 30 some thousand dollar, 400+
monthly payment  Grand Cherokee 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.
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