From: Keef <Jeff01@spamblock.soback.kornet.nm.kr>
Newsgroups: alt.humor.best-of-usenet
Subject: [alt.folklore.urban] Dog dynamite redux
Date: 2 Nov 1997 15:47:00 -0700

Subject: Re: Dog dynamite redux 
From: "Jeff Henkels" <jeff@crusoe.com--->
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban

Mike Holmans <possum@jackalope.demon.co.uk> 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