1. THEY OVERDID IT
The London police were looking for a criminal who had
robbed a bank. One day they
caught him and took him to prison. But while they were
taking photographs of him from
the front, from the left, from the right, with a hat,
without a hat — he suddenly attacked
one of the policemen and ran away.
Then a week later the telephone rang in the police
station and somebody said: "You are
looking for Ben Jackson, aren't you?" —
"Yes." — "Well, he was at Victoria Station an
hour ago. He has probably left London by now."
The city police immediately sent four different photos
of the robber to the railway
police. All the trains were searched.
Less than two hours later they got a telephone call
from a small town not far from
London. "We have caught three of the men,"
they said happily, "and we hope to catch
the fourth very soon."