There is an award that given to people who do extremely stupid things, called the Darwin Award, and here is a candidate for that award, from Denver.
This guy buys a brand new Grand Cherokee in January for $30,000+, and has $400+ monthly payments. He immediately gets hold of his friend and they go for some male bonding. They go duck hunting and of course all the lakes are frozen.
These two 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 drill.
Out of the back of the new Grand Cherokee comes a stick of dynamite with a short, 40 second fuse. Now these two Rocket Scientists do take into consideration that if they place the stick of dynamite on the ice at a location near 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. A highly trained Black Lab used for retrieving, specially things thrown by the owner. You guessed it, the dog takes off at a high rate of 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 woe of the two idiots yelling, stomping, waving arms, and wondering what 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 adding to the mounting woes of the two bozo's now really waving their arms, yelling even louder and jumping to new heights.
Now one of the guy's decides to think, something that he has never done before this moment, grabs a shotgun and shoots at the dog. The shotgun is loaded with #8 shot, hardly big enough to stop a Black Lab on its appointed rounds. The dog stops for a moment, slightly confused and continues on. Another shot and this time the dog, still standing, becomes really confused and of course scared, thinking these two 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 dog finds? Underneath the brand new $30,000 Grand Cherokee sitting on the ice. BOOM!!
Dog dies and the brand new Grand Cherokee sinks to the bottom of the lake, leaving the two candidates for Co-leaders of the known universe standing there with this "I can't believe this happened" look on there faces.
Later, the owner of the vehicle calls the 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.
Everyone that I have told this story has had the same reaction, "that poor dog," I agree.