A
man had just settled into his seat next to the window on the Plane when another man sits
down in the aisle seat and puts his black Labrador in the middle seat
next to the man. The first man looks very
quizzically at the dog and asks why the dog is allowed on the plane. The second man explains
that he is a Drug Enforcement Agency officer and the dog is a 'Sniffer
dog'. 'His name is Smithy and he's the best there is. I'll show you once
we get airborne, when I put him to work.' The plane takes off, and
once it has leveled out, the agent says: ‘Watch this.' He tells
Smithy to 'search'. Smithy jumps down, walks
along the aisle, and finally sits very purposefully next to a woman
for several seconds. Smithy then returns to his seat and puts one paw on
the agent's arm. The agent says, 'Good boy', and he turns to the man and says:
'That woman is in possession of marijuana, so I'm making a note of her seat
number and the authorities will apprehend her when we land.' 'Say, that's pretty neat,'
replies the first man. Once again, the agent
sends Smithy to search the aisles. The Lab sniffs about, sits down beside a man
for a few seconds, returns to his seat and this time, he places TWO paws
on the agent's arm. The agent says, 'That man is carrying
cocaine, so again, I'm making note of his seat number for the police.' 'I like it!' says his seat
mate. The agent then tells Smithy
to 'search' again. Smithy walks up and down
the aisles for a little while, sits down for a moment and then comes racing
back to the agent, jumps into the middle seat and proceeds to shit all over
the place. The first man is really
astounded by this behaviour and can't figure out how or why a well-trained
dog would behave like this, so he asks the agent 'What's going on?'
The agent nervously replies,
'He just found a bomb.’
