At the first hole on a golf course, a man tees off and hits a hard drive, but the ball hooks badly and goes off the course entirely. The man figures it’s a lost ball, puts another ball down and starts again.
He plays nine holes when a policeman comes up to him:
"Sir, did you lose a ball a while back?"
"Yes, I did. Why?"
"Well, sir, I’m afraid I’ve got some bad news for you. You see, your ball struck a cyclist, causing him to swerve right into the path of an oncoming bus. The bus hit the cyclist and then rammed head-on into a truck coming from the opposite direction. At the moment the casualties are twenty-one dead and we don’t know how many injured."
The man says, "Oh, this is dreadful!…. I … I had no idea…. is there anything I can do?"
"Well, sir, the next time you want to hold the club a little more to the right, like this…"