Posted 5/31/2024 1:28 PM (GMT 0)
An old farmer was in court, suing a logging company for damages because one of its trucks had crashed into his truck, which at the time was hauling one of his cows in a van.
When the farmer was on the stand, the company's lawyer asked him
"Regarding your claim of injury inflicted by my client's truck, when the state trooper at the scene investigating the accident asked you how you were, did you not say to him, "I'M FINE! I'M FINE!"
"Wall, yessir, I did," the farmer replied. "Even though I was hurtin' sompin' awful!"
"Then why did you say to him you were fine?" the judge intervenes and asks the farmer.
"Wall sir, yer honor," replied the farmer, "it was like this."
"My cow Bessie 'n me was drivin' down th' road when this here loggin' truck come racin' at us from th' other direction, then crashed into us, knockin' Bessie outta her van and into th' ditch on one side of th' road, n' me outta my truck 'n into th' ditch on th' other side."
"Then a little while later, a state trooper comes along, n' the first thing he done was to go over to Bessie in th' ditch and say "How you doin', old girl?"
But Bessie is just layin' there, wailin' 'n moanin', and carryin' on somethin' awful."
"N' the trooper says, "Poor old girl, I just can't stand seein' an animal suffer."
"So he pulls out his revolver and BLAM! he shoots Bessie plum dead right between th' eyes."
"Then he crosses the road 'n walks over to th' ditch where I'm a-layin', 'n he says "How you doin', old fella?"
"So beings that was th' situation, yer honor, how would YOU have answered?"