US Rangers ("Green Berets") are intensively trained to live in
any place without any food delivery.
In a southern state a farmer heard a commotion in his poultry-house one night.
This was just what he had been waiting for. With shot gun in hand he flung open
the door of the hen-coop and cried, "Come outta there you thief!"
There was silence for a few seconds, except for the startled clucking of the
fowl. Ranger Private Rastus had a short time to think quickly in the dramatic
situation in which the honor of the elite force of the US Army was at stake.
Then the furious farmer heard a weak voice said:
"Please, mister, ain't nobody here 'cept us chickens."