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[alt.folklore.urban] Dog dynamite redux
On 2 Nov 1997 15:47:00 -0700, in alt.humor.best-of-usenet Keef
<[email protected]> wrote:
>Subject: Re: Dog dynamite redux
>From: "Jeff Henkels" <[email protected]>
>Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
>
>Mike Holmans <[email protected]> wrote...
>> On the final edition of this series of News Quiz on BBC R4 this
>> breakfast time, they dragged up a story from a publication called
>> Landrover World.
>>
>> Set in "North America", we got the usual tale about the guys who drove
>> their 4WD on to the ice, intended to blow a hole with dynamite, which
>> the dog retrieved and used to blow the hole under the 4WD, drowning both
>> dog and vehicle.
>>
>> However, there was a Cool Detail new to both me and Lizz, which was that
>> the 4WD's owner's insurer refused to pay out as the disaster had been
>> caused by the illegal use of explosives. I certainly don't remember
>> hearing that nice little coda before.
>>
>
>Of course the insurer wouldn't pay out. Every insurance policy I've seen
>specifically excludes Acts of Dog.
>
>
>(Sorry, couldn't resist...)
>
>
>
>Jeff "lysdexic" Henkels
>
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