“The prosecutor says she can produce five witnesses who saw you running from the bank with the money bags,” a defense lawyer confided to a suspect. “That’s nothing, said the suspect. “I can produce five hundred witnesses who didn’t see me running from the bank.”
A busy mother and her two small children, Jack and Sally, were on a train ride to the city.
Halfway through the trip, Jack asked his mother, “What was the name of the last station where this train stopped?”
The mother replied, “I don’t remember. “Why?”
“Well,” little Jack answered, “because that’s where Sally got off.”
After a week of agonizing physical training, police academy cadets still hadn’t been admitted to the firing range. “I don’t get it,” huffed one trainee to another as they pounded out yet another five-mile jog. “What do you mean?” “We still don’t know how to protect people and property, but we’re getting real good at running away.”