A certain lawyer was quite wealthy and had a summerhouse
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
freebee 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?"