The blue pigeon
The Mayor of London, England was very worried about a plague of pigeons in
the City Centre
He could not remove the pigeons from the city. All of London was full of
pigeon poop, the people of London could not walk on the pavements, or drive
on the roads. It was costing a fortune to keep the streets and pavements
clean.
One day a man came to the Town Hall and offered the Mayor a proposition. 'I
can rid your beautiful city of its plague of pigeons without any cost to
the city. But, you must promise not to ask me any questions. Or, you can
pay me one million pounds to ask one question.'
The mayor considered the offer briefly and accepted the free proposition.
The next day the man climbed to the top of the Nelson's Column, opened his
coat, and released a blue pigeon. The blue pigeon circled in the air and
flew up into the bright blue London sky.
All the pigeons in London saw the blue pigeon and gathered up in the air
behind the bird. The London pigeons followed the blue pigeon as she flew
eastwards out of the city.
The next day the blue pigeon returned completely alone to the man on top of
Nelson's Column.
The Mayor was very impressed. He felt the man and the blue pigeon
had performed a wonderful miraculous service to rid London of the plague of
pigeons.
Even though the man with the pigeon had charged nothing, the mayor presented
him with a check for 1 million pounds and told the man that, indeed, he did
have a question to ask and even though they had agreed to no fee and the man
had rid the city of pigeons, he decided to pay the 1 million just to get to
ask ONE question.
The man accepted the money and told the mayor to ask his ONE question.
The mayor asked: 'Do you have a blue Pakistani ?"