Duck hunters from Wisc. And they make fun of people from the South!!!

[napi21]

HAVE YOU HEARD ABOUT THE TWO DUCK HUNTERS FROM WISCONSIN?

ABSOLUTELY TRUE STORY HEARD ON A WISCONSIN RADIO STATION REPORTING ON THE INCIDENT.

A guy buys a new Lincoln Navigator for $42,500.00 (with monthly payments of $560.00).

He and a friend go duck hunting in mid-winter; and of course all of the lakes are frozen.
These two guys go on a lake with their GUNS, a DOG, and of course the New NAVIGATOR.


They decide they want to make a natural looking water area for the ducks, something for the decoys to float on. Now making a hole in the ice large enough to invite a passing duck, is going to take a little more power than the average drill auger can produce.



So, out of the back of the new Navigator comes a stick of dynamite with a short 40 second-fuse. Now our two Rocket Scientists, afraid they might slip on the ice while trying to run away after lighting the fuse (and becoming toast, along With the Navigator),

decide on the following course of action: they lite the 40 second fuse; then, with a mighty thrust, they throw the stick of dynamite as far away as possible.

Remember a couple of paragraphs back when I mentioned the NAVIGATOR, 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 across the ice at a high rate of spee d and grabs the stick of dynamite, with the burning 40-second fuse, just as it hits the ice.



The two men swallow, blink, start waving their arms and, with veins in their necks swelling
to resemble stalks of rhubarb, scream and holler at the dog to stop. The dog, now apparently cheered on by his master, keeps coming.



One hunter panics, grabs the shotgun and shoots the dog. The shotgun is loaded with #8 bird shot, hardly big enough to stop a Black Lab. The dog stops for a moment, slightly confused then continues on.



Another shot, and this time the dog, still standing, becomes really confused and of course terrified, thinks these two geniuses have gone insane. The dog takes off to find cover, under the brand new Navigator.

The men continue to scream as they run. The red hot exhaust pipe on the truck touches the dogs rear end, he yelps, drops the dynamite under the truck and takes off after his master. Then



""""""""""BOOOOOOOOOOOOM""""""""""!! !!!


The truck is blown to bits and sinks to the bottom of the lake, leaving the two idiots standing there with...... "I can't believe this just happened" looks on their faces.


The insurance company says that sinking a vehicle in a lake by illegal use of explosives is NOT COVERED by the policy. He still had yet to make the first of those $560.00 a month payments...The dog is okay...




Newspaper item from Wisconsin...




AND THEY MAKE FUN OF PEOPLE IN THE SOUTH?

[xchrom]

1. these guys should go to jail.

[marmar]

2. Not the sharpest tools in the shed....

That's downright bizarre.

[Lex]

3. Sounds like Dubya's kind of people for sure.

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[raysr]

14. they'd like to have a beer with *

[rockymountaindem]

4. This sounds made up n/t

[annabanana]

5. Oh My! . From the "toss the dynamite" moment

to the "dog drops the dynamite and runs" moment, I wasn't liking the story at all!!

The rest of it is pretty damn funny.

[Beelzebud]

6. I'm just glad the dog is ok. Those 2 dumb fucks should go to jail.

[sandnsea]

7. Now that there's funny

I don't care what you say. :P

[lectrobyte]

8. It's a funny story, but I've heard it at least 15 years ago with a

Jeep Grand Cherokee instead of a Navigator.

[Jackpine Radical]

13. This story has been around in one form or another since the

Model T days. I recall several variants that put the duck hunters in a boat, etc.

And of course you don't hunt ducks with #8 shot. Steel #2's maybe.

[Arkansas Granny]

9. A funny story, but Snopes says it's false.

http://www.snopes.com/critters/cruelty/dynamite.asp

[DWilliamsamh]

19. Sorry Granny

Didn't see you had already posted the Snopes link!

:-)

Doug

[Gidney N Cloyd]

10. Actually around Chicago we probably make fun of Wisconsinites more than southerners.

There have even been a couple radio shows I can recall that had regular "Wisconsin Report" features.

[Jackpine Radical]

12. It's mutual, Gid.

I was raised in northern WI, where we were inundated by Chicago tourists every summer.

You should hear what stories we tell about you guys.

[Gidney N Cloyd]

16. You call us "FIBS" or something like that, isn't it?

[Ellipsis]

22. "Flat landers" too.

There are many Illinois retired and transplants in Wisconsin... it's all good.

[hfojvt]

11. you need to remember

In the 1930 census there were 997 people living in Wisconsin who were born in Georgia and the country is even more mobile now. :P

BTW, apparently people who live on the coasts make fun of rural midwestern people, no matter what region they live in. To my NY friend from the metropolis of Oswego, NY, I was just a midwestern hick.

[Jackpine Radical]

18. The only thing dumber than a midwestern hick

is a midwestern hick with a Scandinavian accent (at least in the view of a lot of New Yorkers I have known).

[lpbk2713]

15. Any chance they're related to the McKenzie brothers?

Hosers, eh?

[DWilliamsamh]

17. Amusing but false

Check this link from Snopes.com:

http://www.snopes.com/critters/cruelty/dynamite.asp

The story has been around since at least 1997. But thanks for the laugh.

:-D


Doug

[BlooInBloo]

Southerners'll believe *anything*.

[Jackpine Radical]

20. What's dumber? A Wisconsinite

or somebody that falls for this story?

[DWilliamsamh]

23. LOL... Even though its false it's still funny! :-)

[Jackpine Radical]

28. It's a great story, I've told various versions of it myself over the years.

But I think watching people assume it's true is even funnier.

[depakid]

32. Darwin Awards has it listed too- as an urban legend

Still funny, though.

http://darwinawards.com/legends/legends1999-09.html

There have been true stories involving idiots, ice and dynamite, though:

http://darwinawards.com/personal/personal2002-23.html

:rofl:

[undeterred]

21. No lakes are frozen in Wisconsin this year.

Usually the people who come up here and act like fools are actually from Illinois. :evilgrin:

[Jackpine Radical]

29. The Navigator is a dead giveaway.

No actual Wisconsin resident could afford one. They'd HAVE to be from Illinois.

[Gidney N Cloyd]

31. Except it said he hadn't made any payments on it yet...

:D

[Jackpine Radical]

38. Nobody'd give a Cheesehead enough credit to buy a Navigator.

[Little Wing]

24. This joke must be 50 years old

[Speck Tater]

25. I first heard this urban myth in 1963 in Michigan

"ABSOLUTELY TRUE STORY HEARD ON A WISCONSIN RADIO STATION" Oh yeah? WHICH station? When?

What amazes me is the people who believe these undated, unattributed stories "heard" (always by someone else) on unnamed radio stations or "read" (always by someone else) in unnamed newspapers. No city is ever mentioned. No station call letters or DJ or news reader's name. No reporter is ever named.

Given the eagerness with which people believe nonsense, it doesn't surprise me that those Nigerian scam artists can still find people who will believe their ridiculous claims.

http://www.snopes.com/critters/cruelty/dynamite.asp contains the story verbatim, except for the claim it took place in Michigan, along with a 1997 version involving a new Jeep Cherokee.

[Chief]

26. Urban Myth

Great story, but false.

The first and most obvious clue, which any northern hunter should spot, is that by the time the ice is thick enough to drive on, duck season (and the duck migration) is long over. The above version of the joke even says "mid-winter". Duck season is over before deer season, which is ALWAYS Thanksgiving week.

[XanaDUer]

27. Have you ever read Wisconsin Death Trip?

Nt.

[alfredo]

30. Garrison Keillor has a great ice fishing story about two

squabbling brothers. It is a comedy of errors type of story. It is worth finding the story. It is one of my favorite of the "News From Lake Woebegon."

[Bluebear]

33. FACT: Navigator owner is a transplant from CONYERS, GEORGIA!

j/k

[walldude]

34. Darwin Awards Here they come!!!!!

That was freakin hilarious.. thanks!

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

35. Good story, if it was true

Most of the really good stories around the great lake states involve snowmobiles or ice-fishing. Or both.

Most of the good stories from the south involve someone saying "hold my beer and watch this".


The ice fishermen keep the Coast Guard busy in the spring. If the lakes get enough ice to fish on.

[MN ChimpH8R]

36. Even weirder things are true

Only in Wisconsin would someone get arrested for having sex with a dead deer. :crazy: :puke:

This is even more disturbing than the guy who got himself killed by letting a horse... well, you know... last year.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/11/17/dead_deer_case/

Sex with dead deer not illegal, lawyer argues
Wisconsin case hinges on definition of 'animal'

By Lester Haines

Published Friday 17th November 2006 16:20 GMT



The defence lawyer of a Wisconsin man charged with having sex with a dead deer is claiming he's innocent of any wrongdoing - because a "crimes against sexual morality" statute prohibits sex with animals, but fails to mention carcasses, The Duluth News Tribune reports.

Bryan James Hathaway, 20, of Superior, was arrested on "a misdemeanour charge of sexual gratification with an animal" after indulging in intercourse with said deceased deer on 11 October.

His attorney, public defender Fredric Anderson, last week filed a motion with a Douglas County court which argued "because the deer was dead, it was not considered an animal and the charge should be dismissed". He wrote: "The statute does not prohibit one from having sex with a carcass."

He further argued that, according to Webster's dictionary, an animal is "any of a kingdom of living beings". If you include carcasses in that definition, Anderson reasoned, "you really go down a slippery slope with absurd results".

Anderson demanded that a judge clarify "what the Legislature intended 'animal' to mean in the statute", insisting: "And the only clear point to draw the line in that definition, I believe, is the point of death."

[XemaSab]

37. A Southerner would throw the dynamite in a pond

and call it "fishing." :P