[2022] in Humor
HUMOR: True story?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (abennett@MIT.EDU)
Tue Apr 15 11:53:41 1997
From: <abennett@MIT.EDU>
To: humor@MIT.EDU
Date: Tue, 15 Apr 1997 11:32:54 EDT
If it ain't, it oughta be.
-Drew
Date: Tue, 15 Apr 1997 11:26:52 -0500
From: Joe Ziehler <ziehler@psicorp.com>
AIR MAIL
Earlier this year, the dazed crew of a Japanese trawler was plucked
out of the Sea of Japan clinging to the wreckage of their sunken ship.
Their rescue, however, was followed by immediate imprisonment once
authorities questioned the sailors on their ship's loss. To a man
they claimed that a cow, falling out of a clear blue sky, had struck
the trawler amidships, shattering it's hull and sinking the vessel
within minutes.
They remained in prison for several weeks, until the Russian Air
Force reluctantly informed Japanese authorities that the crew of one
of its cargo planes had apparently stolen a cow wandering at the edge
of a Siberian airfield, forced the cow into the plane's hold and
hastily taken off for home.
Unprepared for live cargo, the Russian crew was ill-equipped to
manage a now rampaging cow within its hold. To save the aircraft and
themselves, they shoved the animal out of the cargo hold as they
crossed the Sea of Japan at an altitude of 30,000 feet.
