Long ago in China, Mr. Chan had a collection of teak figurines. Someone was stealing them, one at a time. The only clue were human footprints in the mud outside his window. The following night Chan waited in the dark, and caught a young bear breaking into his antique room. However the bear had human feet that left little-boy sized footprints! Mr. Chan finally caught the boy-foot bear with teak of Chan.
Recently a guy in Paris nearly got away with stealing several paintings from the Louvre. However, after planning the crime, getting in and out past security, he was captured only 2 blocks away when his Ford Econoline ran out of gas. When asked how he could mastermind such a daring and otherwise brilliant crime and then make such an obvious error, he replied: “I had no Monet to buy Degas to make the Van Gogh.”
When Sam returned to the house one evening, his wife Sarah announced that the new cleaning woman they had hired had stolen two towels.
“Yeah,” said Sam very disinterested, and reclining on the sofa, “that wasn’t very nice of her to do.”
“You’re darn right it wasn’t,” Sarah said. “And they were the two best towels we had... the ones we got from the Hilton Hotel while we were on vacation.”