A certain lawyer was quite wealthy and had a summer house in
the country, to which he retreated for several weeks of the
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 up at this place, which happened to be in a
backwoods section of Maine.
On one particular occasion, he invited a Czechoslovakian
friend to stay with him. The friend, eager to get a freebie
off a lawyer, agreed. Well, 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 male and a female.
Well, the lawyer, seeing the two bears, immediately dashed
for cover. His friend, though, wasn't so lucky, and the male
bear reached him and swallowed him whole.
The lawyer ran back to his Mercedes, tore into town as fast
has he could, and got the local backwoods sheriff. The
sheriff grabbed his shotgun and dashed back to the berry
patch with the lawyer.
Sure enough, the two bears were still there.
"He's in THAT one!" cried the lawyer, pointing to the male,
while visions of lawsuits from his friend's family danced in
his head. He just had to save his friend.
The sheriff looked at the bears, and without batting an eye,
leveled his gun, took careful aim, and SHOT THE FEMALE.
"Whatdya do that for!" exclaimed the lawyer, "I said he was
in the other!" "Exactly," replied the sheriff, "and would
YOU believe a lawyer who told you that the Czech was in the
Male?"
