[2861] in Humor
Two Pilots
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Brian T Sniffen)
Sat Jun 26 21:39:39 1999
To: humor@MIT.EDU
From: Brian T Sniffen <brians@MIT.EDU>
Date: 26 Jun 1999 21:36:14 -0400
Two cadets at an Arizona Airforce academy were bragging in their off time
about what good hunters they were. Well, it seems that they decided to have
a contest, and whoever won the contest would be accounted the better
hunter. To make the things a little more interesting, they each put up a
pint of the best whiskey they could find.
There had been rumours that a lion had escaped the local zoo and was roaming
around loose in the dessert that surrounded the academy. The contest was was
that whoever bagged the lion and brought it back to base was the winner.
The first cadet borrowed a large hunting rifle and set about hunting down
the lion in the conventional manner. The second cadet, who was perhaps a bit
more inventive than his counterpart, secured a training jet from the local
commander, loaded the wing guns with live ammunition and headed out over the
dessert in search of the lion. It wasn't long before he spotted it, and,
from the safety of the plane, killed it. He took the plane down, loaded
the lion's body into the copilot's seat, and headed back to base, where he
promptly downed both bottles.
Which just goes to show that a strafed lion is the shortest distance between
two pints.
