Cow Missle

The fellow, a fisherman, was plying his trade in the middle of the Caspian Sea one beautiful calm day. The waves gently lapped the side of the boat and the fisher was hauling in his writhing nets, when a cow suddenly appeared in the sky from nowhere, smashing right through the middle of his boat and sinking it in a trice.

Clinging to the wreckage, the trawlerman was at the end of his tether. His livelihood had sunk in one fell swoop of a phantom Friesian. Who would believe such a thing? Certainly not the insurance company, that was for sure.

Rescued and back on dry land, his suspicions were confirmed. The underwriters laughed out loud, then sent him packing with a flea in his ear and a squelch in his shoes.

This bizarre story soon became the talk of the Urals, and came to international attention. It was only then that the sheepish American embassy in Moscow came clean. They accepted full responsibility, furnished the fellow with a brand new fishing smack and revealed the curious circumstances surrounding the incident.

Apparently, a USAF transport plane was on a famine relief mission when one of the heifers on board went berserk at 3,000 feet, knocking a squaddy unconscious and dribbling on an officer's trousers. In their apoplexy, the soldiers decided the dumb animal had to take a dive. So they opened the cargo door and gave the poor cow the heave-ho out into the wide blue yonder. Without a parachute.