
Originally Posted by
Cpl Smyth
A pilot is shot down over Germany by 'the boogy man'. Upon landing in a forest, he breaks his leg. The Germans pick him up and take him to a POW hospital. They say they have to amputate. Before they begin their work, the pilot looks up and stops them.
"After you cut off my leg will you have one of your pilots drop it over my base in England?" the pilot says. The Germans amputate and drop the leg over his base in England. the next week the Germans have to cut off his other leg. Again the pilot asks them to drop over his base in England and the Germans do it.
The next week the Germans have to amputate an arm. Again the pilot asks them to drop it over his base in England. This time the German doctors' reply is different.
"Nein," the doctor says, "this we can't do anymore."
"Why not?" asks the pilot.
"We think you are trying to escape!"