The Zookeeper & the Kangaroo - from "A Sap's Fables"

The zookeeper was surprised to see the latest addtion - a kangaroo - standing outside the barbed-wire surrounded space built for him. "Damn!", he thought. "It can scale a 10-foot barrier." So, the barrier was raised another 5 feet that night. The next morning the kangaroo was seen loitering around outside again. "Hmm... raise it to 20 feet," the zookeeper told the contractors, "and put sharp spikes on the top edge." He smiled at the possibility of what those spikes could do: He had always, secretly hated kangaroos because they reminded him of courts for some reason.

They worked all night ... but, once again, the kangaroo was found sleeping under the shade of a tree in the nearby garden the next afternoon. Mediapersons, excited by the novelty of it (and short of content, as usual), filmed him, made him pose for shots, and splashed his pictures all over the press, tv, and the internet. (Yes, it's a fairly recent tale.)

This made the zookeeper even angrier. "Barnshoot!", said the keeper, whose dad had served in the British Army. He ordered ISPs to block Google. Announcing a state of emergency, he enlisted other contractors to pool in their labour forces. "Raise the wall to 40, no - wait - 50 feet!", he bellowed. They worked all through the weekend while the kangaroo rested in his space, peering at them from under his copy of The Frightening Times, with occasional looks that alternated between 'bemused 'and 'bewildered'.

Come Monday, local and foreign reporters all began to gather at a really early hour at the zoo. They were greeted by a smiling kangaroo, chewing upon a gladiola stem. "Wow!", said the mediapersons, in unison. "How high, sir, can you actually jump? And from which Madrassa did you obtain this training?", asked Nudge M. Seth of The Delhi Times. "You don't really believe you can keep fighting the establishment of the zoo forever", chided Ameet Aaron from the Daily Yawn. "You certainly can't be expact to jump ower valls of 100-100 feet?", the lady from Naa Aae Vaqt - whom everyone loved to hate - wanted to know.

"Oh,", said the kangaroo, "I really don't give a shit how high the walls these guys build are". Then he winked and added, "As long as they keep leaving the door open."