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A cop walking his usual beat sees an old man pulling a box on a leash, down a busy street. „Poor man,” the cop thinks to himself. „I’d better go humor him.”

„That’ a nice dog you got there,” says the cop to the old man.

„It isn’t a dog, it’s a box,” replies the old man.

„Oh, I’m sorry,” says the policeman, „I thought you were simple-minded.”

The old man walks past the cop, then turns to his box, and says, „We sure fooled him that time, didn’t we, Rover?”

Numai la Tokyo

A young boy comes running down the street looking for a cop. He finds one and then begs, „Please, officer, come back to the bar with me, my father’s in a fight.”

Well, they get back to the bar and there’s three guys fighting like you wouldn’t believe. After a while the cop turns to the kid and says, „Okay, which one’s your father?”

The kid looks up at the cop and says, „I don’t know officer, that’s what they’re fighting about.”

„How long have you been driving without a tail light, buddy?” demanded the policeman.

The driver jumped out, ran to the rear of his car, and gave a low moan.

His distress was so great that the cop was moved to ease up on him a bit.

„Aw, come now,” he said, „you don’t have to take it so hard. It isn’t that serious.”

„It isn’t?” cried the motorist. „What happened to my boat and trailer?”

A policeman recently stopped a woman for exceeding the posted speed limit. He asked the driver her name and where she was from. She said, „I’m Mrs. Gladiolas Abdulkhashim Zybkcicraznovskaya from the Republic of Uzbekistan visiting my daughter in Tallahassee.”

The cop put away his summons book and pen, and said, „Well… OK… but don’t let me catch you speeding again.”