This isn't a 'joke', as such, but an item that arose during 'QI' last night, with Stephen Fry adopting a suitably Teutonic accent for the account:
Apparently, a German seeing-eye dog (and yes, it IS a German Shepherd) has managed to cause the deaths of his four owners. In one case, he walked his user off the end of a pier, in another, onto some railway tracks where he was belted by a train, a third he walked into a river, and the fourth one he escorted into heavy traffic, before abandoning him and making his own run to safety.
When asked whether they would be retiring the hound from service into something less risky for his handlers, or at least warning his next owner about his lapses of concentration, the German spokesman for the organisation said, "Oh, no! That would make his new owner very nervous, and then that would make the dog very nervous, and he wouldn't be able to do his job."
And the name of this careless canine? Yup, it's... Lucky!
Apparently, a German seeing-eye dog (and yes, it IS a German Shepherd) has managed to cause the deaths of his four owners. In one case, he walked his user off the end of a pier, in another, onto some railway tracks where he was belted by a train, a third he walked into a river, and the fourth one he escorted into heavy traffic, before abandoning him and making his own run to safety.
When asked whether they would be retiring the hound from service into something less risky for his handlers, or at least warning his next owner about his lapses of concentration, the German spokesman for the organisation said, "Oh, no! That would make his new owner very nervous, and then that would make the dog very nervous, and he wouldn't be able to do his job."
And the name of this careless canine? Yup, it's... Lucky!