Two cadets at an Arizona Airforce academy were bragging in their off time about
what good hunters they were. Well, it seems that they decided to have a contest,
and whoever won the contest would be accounted the better hunter. To make the
things a little more interesting, they each put up a pint of the best whiskey
they could find. There had been rumours that a lion had escaped the local zoo
and was roaming around loose in the dessert that surrounded the academy. The
contest was was that whoever bagged the lion and brought it back to base was
the winner.
The first cadet borrowed a large hunting rifle and set about hunting down the
lion in the conventional manner. The second cadet, who was perhaps a bit more
inventive than his counterpart, secured a training jet from the local commander,
loaded the wing guns with live ammunition and headed out over the dessert in
search of the lion. It wasn't long before he spotted it, and, from the safety
of the plane, killed it. He took the plane down, loaded the lion's body into
the copilot's seat, and headed back to base, where he promptly downed both bottles.
Which just goes to show that a strafed lion is the shortest distance between
two pints.