Brendan and Tommy were on holiday and looking for a place to go hunting, pulled into a farmer's yard in County Waterford. The driver, Brendan, went up to the farmhouse to ask permission to hunt on the farmer's land.

The old farmer said, 'Sure you can hunt, but would you be doing me a favour? That old donkey standing over there is 20 years old and sick with cancer, but I don't have the heart to kill her. Would you do it for me?'

Brendan replied, 'Of course I will,' and strolled back to the car.

While walking back, however, Brendan decided to play a trick on Tommy. He got into the car and when asked if the farmer had said if it was alright, he said, 'No, we can't hunt here, but I'm going to teach that old fellow a lesson he won't forget.'

With that, he rolled down his window, stuck his gun out and shot the donkey. As he shouted, 'To be sure, that will teach him,' a second shot rang out from the passenger side and Tommy yelled, 'And me, begorrah, I got the cow.'