Ed Zachary's White Knuckler

Ed Zachary had just settled into his seat next to the window on the plane when another gentleman sat down in the aisle seat and had his black Labrador Retriever jump up onto the middle seat between the two men.

Ed looked quizzically at the dog, then asked the gentleman how the dog was allowed on the plane.

The gentleman explained that he was a DEA agent and that the dog was a 'sniffing dog.'

"His name is Snifter and he's the best there is. I'll show you how he does it once we're airborne."

The plane took off and once it had leveled out, the agent turned to Snifter and said, "Snifter, search!"

Snifter jumped down, strode up and down the aisle and finally sat purposefully next to a woman for several seconds.

Snifter then returned to his seat and put one paw on the agent's arm.

The agent said, "Good boy!", unwrapped a substantial piece of room-temperature Camembert from out of his coat pocket, placed it in Snifter's mouth and then turned to Ed and said, 'That woman is in possession of marijuana--I'm making a note of her seat number and the authorities will bust her ass when we land."

"Goddamn," said Ed, "what a dog!"

Again, the agent sent Snifter down the aisle on reconnaissance. The lab sniffed about, sat down beside a man for a few seconds, returned to its seat, and this time he placed two paws on the agent's arm.

The agent said: "That man is holding coke, so again, I'm making a note of his seat number and he'll be taking it up the ass in the shower room for the next 20 years, heh heh."

"I am incredibly impressed," gushed Ed.

This time the agent extracted a comely portion of Pont L'Evesque, unwrapped it, slipped it into Snifter's drooling mouth and then instructed him to search once more.

Snifter strode back and forth on the aisle for 2.6 minutes, then sat down next to a male passenger for a moment, then tore off out of the seat and came racing back to the agent, whereupon he jumped up onto the middle seat and immediately shit himself and his adjacent passengers copiously.

Ed ejaculated: "Whoa! What the fuck???"

The agent replied in a choked voice: "He just found a bomb."