Message-ID: <5208908.1075840332163.JavaMail.evans@thyme> Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2002 22:10:23 -0800 (PST) From: don.c.baughman@marshmc.com To: walter@bounds.com, daddydavidson@aol.com, dbaughm@ect.enron.com, dbcook@houston.rr.com, dewey@petroguard.com, doug@uscky.com, ewhitten@jwortham.com, jameshaddo@aol.com, newsom@detsif.com, psreco@msn.com, richardmann44@hotmail.com, rjones@anpower.com, rteets@houston.rr.com, sbhicks@dellnet.com, ldansimpson@email.msn.com, teetsgang@worldnet.att.net, terry@sellersgroupllc.com, twb1@pdq.net, twilliams@ev1.net Subject: Fw: Future Darwin Award Candidates: Hunting Story Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-From: Don C Baughman @ENRON X-To: walter , Daddydavidson , dbaughm , DBCook , dewey , Doug , ewhitten , Jameshaddo , newsom , psreco , richardmann44 , RJones , rteets , sbhicks , LDanSimpson , Teetsgang , terry , twb1 , twilliams X-cc: X-bcc: X-Folder: \ExMerge - Baughman Jr., Don\Deleted Items X-Origin: BAUGHMAN-D X-FileName: don baughman 6-25-02.PST 01/16/2002 05:59 PM Good Insurance story. DCBSR ---------------------- Forwarded by Don C Baughman/HOU-TX/US/Marsh/MMC on 16 Jan 2002, 17:59 Wednesday --------------------------- ken.linda.rose@worldnet.att.net on 16 Jan 2002, 15:14 Wednesday To: Don C Baughman cc: Subject: Fw: Future Darwin Award Candidates: Hunting Story Don: If you were the adjuster on this claim, how would you handle it? I think I may be tempted to put these two guys out of there mysery, for killing such a good dog!!! Ken ----- Original Message ----- From: Kevin Gardner To: Charles F Turner ; Terry Shelton ; Ken Rose ; Bruce L. Ripper ; Dick Moen ; Rick Martin ; Craig Hausman ; Tommy Gardner ; Patricia F Gardner ; Peter French ; Kevin G Gardner 2 ; Tom L. Ford Sent: Wednesday, January 16, 2002 2:06 PM Subject: FW: Future Darwin Award Candidates: Hunting Story ...for those who know the joys of huntiing, and Black Labs Kevin G. Gardner Partner Strategis, LLP 5599 San Felipe, Suite 500 Houston, TX 77056 Direct Tel: 713.402.5804 Direct Fax: 713.402.1804 Mobile: 713.826.9798 -----Original Message----- From: Dan Needham [mailto:dneedham@charterconsult.com] Sent: Tuesday, January 15, 2002 2:08 PM To: David B. Benjamin; colt.landreth@grubb-ellis.com; fisher@felahfd.com; james.mcclung@fmcti.com; mfisher@schiffhardin.com; afaurot@rtkl.com; ross.baker@mercermc.com; fwood3@ford.com; Joseph.Lawler@rrd.com; manderson@ameritradeinstitutional.com; ebrooks@sprynet.com; j.burke@asapnet.net; robert.Horne@am.joneslanglasalle.com; cmorgan@heidrick.com; decroft@earthlink.net; mreiben@aol.com; polarmfg@aol.com; mfisher@schiffhardin.com; lhutchin@winston.com; cpotter@mcgrawwildlife.org; nsheehan@vdtainc.com; jhenter@iaretail.org Subject: FW: Future Darwin Award Candidates: Hunting Story OUCH Very good read. At least it was a black lab and not a yellow one! Dan Needham -----Original Message----- From: Leakas, Chip (LNG) [mailto:chip.leakas@lexisnexis.com] Sent: Tuesday, January 15, 2002 1:43 PM To: 'CDquest@aol.com' Cc: 'Dan Needham' Subject: FW: Future Darwin Award Candidates: Hunting Story Take 2 minutes to read this.it's worth it! Sounds like a Darwin award: Two hunters from Michigan--(true story) This is from a radio program, > a true report of an incident in Michigan: > > A guy buys a brand new Lincoln Navigator for $42,500 and has $560 > monthly payments. He and a friend go duck hunting in winter, and of > course all the lakes are frozen. These two guys go out on the lake with > the guns, the dog, and 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. In order to make a hole large enough to look > like something a wandering duck would fly down and land on, it is > going to take a little more effort than an ice hole drill. > > So, out of the back of the new Navigator comes a stick of dynamite > with a short, 40-second fuse. Now these two Rocket Scientists do > take into consideration that they want to place the stick of dynamite > on the ice at a location far from where they are standing (and the new > Navigator), because they don't want to take the risk of slipping on the > ice when they run from the burning fuse and possibly go up in smoke > with the resulting blast. > > They light the 40-second fuse and throw the dynamite. Remember a > couple of paragraphs back when I mentioned the vehicle, 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 at a high rate of doggy speed on the ice and cap- > tures the stick of dynamite with the burning 40-second fuse about the > time it hits the ice. > > The two men yell, scream, wave their arms and wonder what to do > now. The dog, cheered on, keeps coming. One of the guys grabs the > shotgun and shoots the dog. The shotgun is loaded with # 8 buckshot, > hardly big enough to stop a Black Lab. The dog stops for a moment, > slightly confused, but continues on. Another shot and this time the dog, > still standing, becomes really confused and of course terrified, thinking > these two geniuses have gone insane. > > The dog takes off to find cover, under the brand new Navigator. > ----BOOM!---- Dog and Navigator are blown to bits and sink to > the bottom of the lake in a very large hole, leaving the two idiots standing there with this "I can't believe this happened" look on their faces. > > The insurance company says that sinking a vehicle in a lake by illegal > use of explosives is not covered. He still had yet to make the first of those $560 a month payments! > > And you thought your day was not going well!! To: Don C Baughman/HOU-TX/US/Marsh/MMC@MMC cc: From: ken.linda.rose@worldnet.att.net