FLYING HUNTERS
Posted by: root <root@...>
hunting. They were quite successful in their venture and bagged six
big bucks. The pilot came back, as arranged, to pick them up.
They started loading their gear into the plane, including the six
elk. But the pilot objected and he said, "The plane can only take
four of your elk; you will have to leave two behind."
They argued with him; the year before they had shot six and the pilot
had allowed them to put all aboard. The plane was the same model and
capacity. Reluctantly, the pilot finally permitted them to put all
six aboard. But when the attempted to take off and leave the valley,
the little plane could not make it and they crashed into the
wilderness.
Climbing out of the wreckage, one hunter said to the other, "Do you
know where we are?"
"I think so," replied the other hunter. "I think this is about the
same place where we crashed last year."