Eats, shoots and leaves

A panda walks into a café. He orders a sandwich, eats it, then draws a gun and fires two shots in the air.

“Why?” asks the confused waiter, as the panda makes towards the exit. The panda produces a badly punctuated wildlife manual and tosses it over his shoulder.

“I’m panda,” he says, at the door. “Look it up.”

The waiter turns to the relevant entry and, sure enough, finds an explanation.

“Panda. Large black-and-white bear-like mammal, native to China. Eats, shoots and leaves.

Taken from Lynne Truss, Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation, PROFILE BOOKS, London, 2003.

Eats, Shoots & Leaves, Lynne Truss