A police officer is walking his beat when he catches with his eye a trail of $50 notes leading into an alley.
Curious, he immediately goes in and finds an old woman with two trash bags dragging on the ground, one of them leaving $50 notes in its wake every few feet.
He calls the woman to halt and then approaches her.
“Excuse me Ma'am, but one of your bags has a hole”. he points out.
The woman thanks him profoundly but he, still curious, asks: “I hope you don’t mind, I need to ask, but where did you get all that money?”
“Well, you see Mr.Officer,” the old lady explains, “I have a lovely house at the end of the street and it just so happens to be right next door to a very famous bar.
Now, I don’t mind the noise but every night there are always some drunkards that piss all over my garden and that really ticks me off.” She said, her voice shaking with indignation.
“So, yesterday night I stood there with my pruning shears at closing time, and whenever someone got their thingy out I’d say: ‘$50 bucks or I’ll cut it off!'”
Laughing at the amusing idea of those scared drunkards handing their money to this old woman, the Police Officer lets her go about her way.
But as she turns to go, he jokingly asks: “Is the second bag filled with money too?”
“Well, you know Mr. Officer, not everyone paid.”