The Mammoth Book of Tasteless Jokes (214 page)

Over the next couple of years there wasn’t a day that went by without the man pondering upon the amazing events of that day.

Several years later, the man was visiting the zoo with his small son. As they approached the elephant enclosure, one of the elephants turned and walked over to where they were standing at the rail. As it stared at him, the man saw what he thought was a flicker of recognition. He couldn’t help wondering if this was the same elephant. At that moment, the man realized that he had taken his eye off his young son and that the boy had climbed the rail and fallen into the elephant enclosure. Thinking swiftly, the man climbed over the railing and made his way into the enclosure towards the elephant, which was standing over the boy as he lay on the ground. He walked right up to the elephant and looked it in the eye. Suddenly, the elephant raised his foot and crushed the boy’s head, then wrapped its trunk around one of the man’s legs and swung him wildly back and forth along the railing, snapping his neck and killing him. Probably not the same elephant then.

A man walks into a zoo, and all it has is a single dog. It was a shitzu.