[112] in Humor
HUMOR: "I don't have a cougar!"
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (abennett@MIT.EDU)
Mon Feb 28 10:23:41 1994
From: abennett@MIT.EDU
To: humor@MIT.EDU
Date: Mon, 28 Feb 94 10:19:52 EST
Date: Fri, 25 Feb 94 17:41:31 MST
From: rmerz@redwood.hac.com (Rulane Merz)
Subject: "I don't have a cougar!"
I heard the following on Paul Harvey this morning:
A cougar wandered into the residential section of a Montana town.
The residents kept their children indoors and nervously called the
police and Fish and Game officials, who came on the double. They
shot the cougar with a tranquilizer gun. But the cat, though woozy,
still had the presence of mind to stagger into an open garage.
The officers, in order not to unpleasantly surprise the inhabitants
of the house, knocked on the door to tell them why they wanted to
go inside the garage. A woman came to the door.
"Ma'am," they told her, "there's a cougar in your garage."
She said -- and I am not making this up, the Great Falls newspaper
swears this really happened -- said, "Oh, but that's impossible. I
have a Buick, not a Cougar!"
