A certain lawyer was quite wealthy and had a summer house in the country where
he retreated for several weeks every year.
Each summer, the lawyer would invite
a different friend of his (no, that's not the punch line) to spend a week or two
at this home, which happened to be in a backwoods.
On one particular occasion,
he invited a Czechoslovakian friend to stay with him. The friend, eager to get a
freebee off of the lawyer, agreed.
They had a splendid time in the country --
rising early and living in the great outdoors. Early one morning, the lawyer and
his Czechoslovakian companion went out to pick berries for their morning
breakfast. As they went around the berry patch, gathering blueberries and
raspberries in tremendous quantities, along came two huge Bears -- a large male
and a smaller female.
The lawyer, seeing the two bears and sensing danger,
immediately dashed for cover. His friend, however, being ignorant of nature, was
not so lucky. The male bear charged the paralyzed Czechoslovakian, then
swallowed him whole.
Terrified, the lawyer rushed back to his car
and sped into town to get the local sheriff. The sheriff, upon hearing the
lawyer's unsettling story, grabbed his rifle and dashed back to the berry patch
with the lawyer following closely behind. Sure enough, the two bears were still
there.
"He's in THAT one!", cried the lawyer, pointing to the large male bear,
all the while visions of lawsuits from his friend's family flashed through the back of
his mind.
He just had to save his friend!
The sheriff looked at the two bears,
and without batting an eye, leveled his rifle, took careful aim, and SHOT THE
FEMALE.
"What did you do that for!", exclaimed the lawyer, "I said he was in the
other one!"
"Exactly," replied the sheriff, "Would YOU believe a lawyer who told
you the Czech was in the male?"
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