The old farmer slowly climbed down from the tractor and walked up to the city feller. The attorney quickly thought about the proposed contest and decided that he could easily take the old codger.
The farmer replied, “Well, first I kick you three times and then you kick me three times, and so on, back and forth, until someone gives up.� The lawyer asked, “What is the Alabama Three-Kick Rule?� We settle small disagreements like this with the Alabama Three-Kick Rule.� The old farmer smiled and said, “Apparently, you don’t know how we do things here in Alabama.
The indignant lawyer said, “I am one of the best trial attorneys in the US and if you don’t let me get that duck, I’ll sue you and take everything you own.� The old farmer replied, “This is my property, and you are not coming over here.� The litigator responded, “I shot a duck and it fell into this field, and now I’m going to retrieve it.� As he climbed over the fence, an elderly farmer drove up on his tractor and asked him what he was doing. He shot and dropped a bird, but it fell into a farmer’s field on the other side of a fence. A big-city California lawyer went duck hunting in rural Alabama.
