An old man was on his death bed, and wanted to be buried with his money. He called his priest, his doctor and his lawyer to his bedside. “Here’s £30,000 cash to be held by each of you. I trust you to put this in my coffin when I die so I can take all my money with me.”
At the funeral, each man put an envelope in the coffin. Riding away in a limousine, the priest suddenly broke into tears and confessed, “I only put £20,000 into the envelope because I needed £10,000 to repair the roof of the church.”
“Well, since we’re confiding in each other,” said the doctor, “I only put £10,000 in the envelope because we needed a new X-ray machine for the pediatrics ward at the hospital which cost £20,000.”
The lawyer was aghast. “I’m ashamed of both of you,” he exclaimed. “I want it known that when I put my envelope in that coffin, I enclosed a check for the full £30,000.”
Topic: In the name of the law. (Read 589 times)