Hutterites and the Bridge *This joke was sent to me in the traditional FWD: FWD: FWD: format from my grandpa.* Two Hutterites, Jacob and John, purchase some budgies from a pet shop and drive over to a bridge. From the top of the bridge, John looks down at the 200-foot drop and says, 'Dis looks like a grand place.' He takes the two birds, puts them on his shoulders and jumps off the bridge. Jacob watches as John falls all the way to the bottom. Looking down at the remains of his best pal, Jacob shakes his head and says, 'Dis is too dangerous fer me.' Moments later Isaac arrives up on the bridge. He's been to the pet shop too and walks up to the edge of the bridge carrying a parrot on one hand and a shotgun in the other. 'Hey, Jacob, vatch dis,' Isaac says. He takes a parrot from the bag and throws himself off the bridge. Jacob watches as halfway down, Isaac takes the gun and shoots the parrot. Isaac continues to plummet until he hits the bottom. Jacob shakes his head and says, 'Ya, und I'm never trying dat either.' Jacob is just getting over the shock of losing two friends when Abe appears. He's carrying an old potato sack out of which he pulls a chicken. Abe then grasps the chicken by the legs, holds it over his head, hurls himself off the bridge and disappears down and down until he too hits bottom. Jacob shakes his head in sadness. 'First der vas John wid his budgie jumping, den Isaac parrotshooting, und now we've lost Abe hengliding.'