A farmer decided his injuries from the accident were serious enough to take the trucking company responsible for the accident to court.

In court, the trucking company’s fancy lawyer was questioning the farmer, “Didn’t you say, at the scene of the accident, ‘I’m fine,'” asked the lawyer.

The farmer responded, “Well. I’ll tell you what happened. I had just loaded my favorite donkey into the…”

“I didn’t ask for any details,” the lawyer interrupted, “just answer the question. Did you not say, at the scene of the accident, ‘I’m fine!'”.

The farmer said, “Well, I had just got Bessie into the trailer and I was driving down the road…”

The lawyer interrupted again and said, “Judge, I am trying to establish the fact that, at the scene of the accident, this man told the Police officer on the scene that he was fine. Now several weeks after the accident he is trying to sue my client. I believe he is a fraud. Please tell him to simply answer the question.” By this time the Judge was fairly interested in the farmer’s answer and said to the lawyer,

“I’d like to hear what he has to say.”

The farmer thanked the Judge and proceeded, “Well, as I was saying, I had just loaded Bessie into the trailer and was driving her down the motorway when this huge semi-truck and trailer ran the stop sign and smacked my truck right in the side. I was thrown into one ditch and my donkey was thrown into the other. I was hurting real bad and didn’t want to move. However, I could hear my donkey’s moaning and groaning. I knew she was in terrible shape just by her groans. Shortly after the accident, a Policeman came on the scene. He could hear the donkey’s moaning and groan so he went over to her. After he looked at her he took out his gun and shot her between the eyes. Then the officer came across the road with his gun in his hand and looked at me.” He said, “Your donkey was in such bad shape I had to shoot her. How are you feeling?” And I answered…