An Army Ranger was on holiday in the depths
of
Louisiana, where he tried to buy some Alligator shoes. However,
he was
not prepared to pay the high prices. After failing to haggle
the vendor
down to a reasonable price level, he ended up shouting
“I don’t give
two hoots for your shoes, man, I’ll go and kill my
own!”
The shopkeeper replied, “By all means. Just watch out for the
two
Marines who are doing the same.
“So the Ranger went out into
the Bayou, and after a while saw two men
with spears, standing
still in the water. “They must be the two
Marines,” he thought. Just at
that point he noticed an alligator moving in
the water towards one
of them. The Marine stood completely passive, even
as the gator
came ever closer. Just as the beast was about to swallow
him, the
Marine struck home with his spear and wrestled the gator up
onto the
beach, where several already lay. Together the two Marines threw

nthe gator onto its back, whereupon one exclaimed “Damn! This one

doesn’t have any shoes either!”