A big city lawyer went duck hunting.
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 the country and if you don’t let me get that duck, I’ll sue you and take everything you own.”