A giant panda escaped from the zoo in London. Eventually, he became hungry and walked into a restaurant, where he found a seat at an empty table. The waiter took the panda’s order. In due course the panda’s meal arrives and he eats.
After he finishes his dinner he stands up, calmly pulls out a gun from where he had it hidden, and fires into the air. Then he turns around and walks toward the door.
Naturally, the waiter is horrified. He stops the panda and demands an explanation, at the very least.
The panda says to him: ‘What do I look like to you?’
The waiter answers: ‘Well, a giant panda, of course.’ ‘That’s right,’ says the panda. ‘Look it up.’ And he walks out.
The waiter calls the police. When they arrive the waiter relates the whole story to them, including the panda’s comment about looking it up. So the sergeant sends a young officer to get an encyclopaedia.
He eventually returns with the Encyclopaedia Britannica, volume P. The detective looks up ‘panda’, and there’s the answer: ‘Giant panda, lives in China, eats shoots and leaves.’
