Canidian Joke

[AKWeav]

>THE SASKATCHEWAN FARMER
>A big city lawyer went duck hunting in rural
>Saskatchewan. He shot and dropped a bird, but it fell into a farmer's
field
>on the other side of a fence.
>
>As the lawyer climbed over the fence, an elderly farmer drove up on his
>tractor and asked him what he was doing.
>
>The litigator responded, "I shot a duck and it fell in this field, and
>now I'm going to retrieve it."
>
>The old farmer replied, "This is my property, and you are not coming
>over here."
>
>The indignant lawyer said, "I am one of the best trial attorneys in
>Canada and, if you don't let me get that duck, I'll sue you and take
>everything you own.
>
>The old farmer smiled and said, "Apparently, you don't know how we
>settle disputes here in Saskatchewan. We have the Three Kick Rule."
>
>The lawyer asked, "What is the Saskatchewan Three Kick Rule?"
>
>The Farmer replied, "Well, because the dispute occurs on my land, first
>I kick you three times and then you kick me three times, and so on back
>and forth until someone gives up."
>
>The attorney quickly thought about the proposed contest and decided
>that
he
>could easily take the old codger. He agreed to abide by the local
>custom.
>
>The old farmer slowly climbed down from the tractor and walked up to
>the attorney. His first kick planted the toe of his heavy steel toed
>work boot into the lawyer's groin and dropped him to his knees. His
>second kick to the midriff sent the lawyer's last meal gushing from his
>mouth. The barrister was on all fours when the farmer's third kick to
>his rear end sent him face-first into a fresh cow pie.
>
>The lawyer summoned every bit of his will and managed to get to his
>feet. Wiping his face with the arm of his jacket, he said, "Okay, you
>old coot. Now it's my turn."
>
>(I love this part.)
>
>The old farmer smiled and said, "Naw, I give up. You can have the
>duck."

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[LePaul]

LOL!  Very good.

[DiabloTX]

AWESOME!!! LMAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[ra]

Is "Reauchambeux" a Canadian invention, too?

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[loser]

"Rochambeau" is actually "paper, rock, scissors."  Most likely originating in Japan.

However, being Saskatchewan born and raised, I have seen more than a few disputes being resolved through a back hand to the groin area.  

It also makes for great fun when the same technique is applied to an unsuspecting friend, coworker, classmate, or even a stranger in socially sensitive situations. (Trying to pick up a girl, in front of their parents, at weddings, the list goes on.)

There are even rules to the "game" regarding who an be tagged, use of projectiles to tag a person from long distances, etc.

[capt. apathy]

"Rochambeau" is actually "paper, rock, scissors." Most likely originating in Japan.

maybe so but the 3-kick rule discribed above has been Southparks version of Rochambeau for quite a few years

[MJHerman]

Knowing it's a joke and all, but the stupid thing is that, as an actual matter of law Canadian and English common law, the stupid duck would legally belong to the lawyer notwithstanding that it fell on the farmer's land.

I've got the case citation somewhere from my 1st year law school days, although in the case it was a drifter who was trespassing on a farmer's land in England.  A fox comes along, the drifter shoots the fox, and the farmer and the drifter go to court over who owns the fox.

Farmer says that fox was on his land, and all property on his land belongs to him.  Drifter argues that since he killed the fox, the fox belongs to him, notwithstanding that he was trespassing.

Court rules that since the fox is a wild animal, no one can have a property interest in the fox (i.e., one cannot "own" what one cannot "control").  However, court also rules that one can exert "control" over a wild animal, and therefore "own" it,  by removing its "wildness".  Court concludes that one way to remove "wildness" is to domesticate it, put it in a cage, etc.  The other way to remove "wildness" is to kill the animal.

Court rules in favour of the drifter, who gets to keep the fox, but I recall that the drifter also got thrown in jail for trespassing.

Court did not rule on the appropriateness of resolving the dispute by way of the "3 kick rule"  

[ra]

Knowing it's a joke and all, but the stupid thing is that, as an actual matter of law Canadian and English common law, the stupid duck would legally belong to the lawyer notwithstanding that it fell on the farmer's land.

This actually sounds like quite a reasonable law.