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To: Chip Anderson who wrote (8708)	10/30/1998 3:59:00 PM
From: Sun Tzu	Respond to of 16960

OT -- Hunting humor (somewhat off color) I do quite a lot of wilderness camping (i.e no humans or technology within an earshot and rarely within sight). This story was relayed to me by a friend just before I went into bear country earlier this year. While on a trail for a buck, a bear ruins the hunter's game plan. Angry and frustrated, the hunter decides to hunt the bear instead. After waiting for bear for half a day, he gets his chance and fires at the bear. The bear drops in the woods. Happy, the hunter goes to pick up his kill when he realizes there is no sign of him. He feels a tap on his shoulder and turns around to come face to face with the bear. The bear was nicked and was bleeding on the face. The angry bear reasons that since the hunter wanted to kill him, the bear now has the right to eat the hunter instead. Unless of course if the hunter elected to "please" the bear by pulling down his pats and bending over. The hunter obliges and eventually makes it home with a badly bruised ego (and rear end). He makes an oath to kill the bear no matter what the costs. The next day he goes to the hunting supply shop and buys the strongest double barrel shot gun he can get. After practicing all week long, he spends the weekend in the forest until he sees the bear. He aims and fires two shots. The earth shakes from the sound and the gun smoke surrounds him. After the smoke clears. He finds no sign of the bear. Suddenly he feels a tap on his shoulder. It is the bear, angrier than before. The bear says "you don't learn, do you? Well, you know the deal. What will it be?" Once again the hunter bends over for the bear who treats him as roughly as he could. Wounded (this time more physically than egotisiticaly), the hunter makes it to the city and is hospitalized for a few days. Upon release he goes to the neighborhood army surplus store to join NRLA and become a regular Rocket Launcher, but ends up having to settle for a Gatling gun and a hundred rounds of amo. He walks into the woods in search of the bear, making no attempts for an ambush. The moment he sees the bear, he opens fire and for more than 15 minutes, the forest turns to wood shop as bushes and trees collapse and smoke and wood chips fills the air. When he is done, a large portion of the forest has been cleared. Content that he has taken his revenge, he leisurely looks for the bears remains on the ground. Suddenly he feels a warm breath and a gentle tapping on his shoulder. To his dismay, it is the bear. But this time the bear is not angry. The bear looks at him with a smile and says, "I think I got you wrong; You don't really come here for hunting, do you?" Have a nice weekend Sun Tzu