Topic: business

A police officer is interviewing three recruits who are training to become detectives.

To test their observational skills, he shows the first recruit a photograph of a suspect for five seconds before hiding it.

“This is your suspect,” he says. “How would you recognize him?”

The first recruit answers, “Easy. We’d catch him right away because he only has one eye.”

The officer sighs. “That’s because I showed you his side profile.”

Trying again, he shows the same photo to the second recruit for five seconds. “This is your suspect. How would you recognize him?”

The second recruit smiles confidently. “Even easier. He only has one ear.”

Now the officer is furious. “What’s wrong with you two? Of course he only has one eye and one ear. It’s a side-profile photo! Can’t either of you come up with a better answer?”

Completely exasperated, he turns to the third recruit. “This is your suspect. How would you recognize him?” Then he adds, “And think carefully before you give me another ridiculous answer.”

The third recruit studies the photo for a moment. “The suspect wears contact lenses.”

The officer blinks in surprise. He doesn’t actually know whether the suspect wears contacts.

“That’s… an interesting observation. Wait here while I check his file.”

A few minutes later, the officer returns with a huge smile. “Incredible! You’re right. The suspect really does wear contact lenses. How on earth did you figure that out?”

“Simple,” the third recruit replies. “He can’t wear regular glasses because he only has one eye and one ear.”

A tough lawyer is cross-examining a medical expert in court: “Doctor, before you performed the autopsy, did you check for a pulse?”

“No.”

“Did you check for blood pressure?”

“No.”

“Did you check for breathing?”

“No.”

“So, then it is possible that the patient was still alive when you began the autopsy?”

“No.”

“How can you be so sure, Doctor?”

“Because his brain was sitting in a jar on my desk.”

“I see… But could the patient have still been alive, nevertheless?”

“Yes, I suppose it’s possible that he was alive and practicing law somewhere.”

A woman wanted to sell her car but couldn’t find any buyers. She called her friend for advice, and her friend asked how many miles were on the car.

“235,000,” she said.

Her friend told her that was the problem but said her brother was a mechanic who could roll the mileage back to whatever she wanted.

So the woman went to the mechanic and told him to set it to 40,000.

Two days later, her friend asked if she had sold the car now that the mileage had been lowered.

The woman replied, “Why would I sell the car? There are only 40,000 miles on it now!”