Cafeoutdoors.com: Hunting Story

Two hunters were going through the woods in the Ozarks, and they came upon a huge hole in the ground, like a sinkhole going straight down. They approached it and were amazed by the size of it.

The first hunter said "Wow, that's some hole, I can't even see the bottom, I wonder how deep it is?"

The second hunter said "I don't know, let's throw something down and listen and see how long it takes to hit bottom."

The first hunter said "There's this old transmission here, give me a hand and we'll throw it in and see".

So they picked it up and carried it over, and count one, and two and three, and threw it in the hole. They stood there listening and looking over the edge and they heard a rustling in the brush behind them. As they turned around they saw a goat come crashing through the brush, run up to the hole with no hesitation, and jump in headfirst.

While they were standing there looking at each other, looking in the hole, and trying to figure out what that was all about, an old farmer walked up. "Say there", said the farmer, "you fellers didn't happen to see my goat around here anywhere, did you?"

The first hunter said "Funny you should ask, but we were just standing here a minute ago and a goat came running out of the bushes doin' about a hunnert miles an hour and jumped headfirst into this hole here!"

And the old farmer said "Why that's impossible, I had him chained to a transmission!"