The Debt Collector

[Collette Darden <csdarden@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

The mafia was looking for a new man to make weekly collections from all the
private businesses that they were 'protecting'.
Feeling the heat from the police force, they decided to use a deaf person
for this job--if he were to get caught, he wouldn't be able to communicate
to the police what he was doing.
Well, on his first week, the deaf collector picks up over $50,000. He gets
greedy, decides to keep the money and stashes it in a safe place.
The mafia soon realizes that their collection is late, and sends some of
their hoods after the deaf collector.  The hoods find the deaf collector
and ask him where the money is. The deaf collector can't communicate with
them, so the mafia drags the guy to an interpreter.  The mafia hood says to
the interpreter, "Ask him where da money is."
The interpreter signs, "Where's the money?"
The deaf replies, "I don't know what you're talking about." The interpreter
tells the hood, "He says he doesn't know what you're talking about."
The hood pulls out a .38 gun and places it in the ear of the deaf
collector. "NOW ask him where da money is."
The interpreter signs, "Where is the money?"
The deaf man replies, "The $50,000 is in Central Park, hidden in the third
tree stump on the left from the West 78th Street gate ."
The interpreter says to the hood, "He says he still doesn't know what
you're talking about, and doesn't think you have the balls to pull the
trigger."