`Ice fishers dynamite accident`

Lateral teaching aside. Minnesota or Wisconsin ice fishers used dynamite to break holes in lake ice; dog retrieved the lit stick and ran under the pickup truck. Tom's "supposedly true story" used as a caution-against-overengineering / drinking-and-engineering parable.

One of my favorite stories, which has nothing to do with anything — you never heard the story of the ice fishers? In Minnesota or Wisconsin or wherever — they're out on the lake, and these guys will take their dogs with them, and they drove their pickup trucks out onto the lake. They wanted to drink beer more than ice fish. So they decided they were going to break some holes in the ice with some sticks of dynamite. They had sticks of dynamite, and they threw the stick of dynamite out there to blow a hole in the ice. And the dog went running after the stick of dynamite. He was used to playing catch with sticks, right? So he comes running back with the dynamite. These guys run, and the dog doesn't know what to do, so he gets underneath the pickup truck, and he and the pickup truck go blowing up. Better not drink too much beer. Just go ahead and drill your hole in the ice, don't try to blow it with dynamite. That's supposedly a true story. Poor dog, he didn't know.