A fisherman was stopped by a game warden in Alabama recently with two ice
chests full of fish. He was leavin’ a cove well-known for its fishing.
The game warden asked the man, ‘Do you have a license to catch those fish?’
‘Naw, sir’, replied the fisherman. ‘I ain’t got none of them there licenses..,
these here are my pet fish.’
‘Pet fish?’ said the Warden.
‘Yeah.. Every night, I take these here fish down to the lake and let ’em
swim ’round for awhile. Then, when I whistle, they jump right back into
these here ice chests and I take ’em home.’ Replied the Fisherman.
‘That’s a bunch of hooey! Fish can’t do that.’ Said the Warden.
The fisherman looked at the warden for a moment and then said, ‘It’s the truth
Mr. Government Man. I’ll show ya. It really works.’
‘O. K.’, said the warden. ‘I’ve got to see this!’
The fisherman poured the fish into the lake and stood and waited.
After several minutes, the warden says, ‘Well?’
‘Well, what?’, says the fisherman.
The warden says, ‘When are you going to call them back?’
‘Call who back?’
‘The FISH’, replied the warden!
‘What fish?’, replied the fisherman.
Moral of the story:
We may not be as smart as some city slickers, but we aren’t as dumb as
some government employees.
You can say what you want about the South, but you never
hear of anyone retiring and moving north.
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