[3176] in Humor
[gkm@blackdown.org: Trust.]
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Gerald Britton)
Tue Apr 18 17:20:56 2000
Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2000 17:07:10 -0400
From: Gerald Britton <gbritton@MIT.EDU>
To: humor@MIT.EDU
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From: gkm@blackdown.org (glen mccready)
To: 0xdeadbeef@blackdown.org
Cc: bostic@bostic.com
Subject: Trust.
Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2000 12:40:47 -0700
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Forwarded-by: Andrew Beairsto <Andrew.Beairsto@canada.sun.com>
A defense attorney was cross-examining a police officer during a felony
trial. It went like this:
Q. Officer, did you see my client fleeing the scene?
A. No sir, but I subsequently observed a person matching the
description of the offender running several blocks away.
Q. Officer, who provided this description?
A. The officer who responded to the scene. A fellow officer
provided the description of this so-called offender.
Q. Do you trust your fellow officers?
A. Yes sir, with my life.
Q. With your life? Let me ask you this then officer - do you
have a locker room in the police station - a room where you
change your clothes?
A. Yes sir, we do.
Q. And do you have a locker in that room?
A. Yes sir, I do.
Q. And do you have a lock on your locker?
A. Yes sir.
Q. Now why is it, officer, if you trust your fellow officers
with your life, that you find it necessary to lock your
locker in a room you share with those same officers?
A. You see sir, we share the building with a court complex, and
sometimes lawyers have been known to walk through that room.
With that, the courtroom erupted in laughter, and a prompt recess was
called. The officer on the stand has been nominated for this year's
"Best come-back" line
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