An elderly woman was walking down the street dragging two large trash bags behind her.

Suddenly, one of the bags ripped open, and a $20 fell out onto the sidewalk. A police officer walking by noticed this, and he stopped to ask the older woman, “Ma’am, there are $20 bills falling out of that bag.”

“Oh, really? Darn it!” said the old lady. “I’d better go back and see if I can find them. Thanks for telling me, officer."

“Well, now, not so fast,” the cop replied. “Where did you get all that money? You didn’t steal it, did you?”

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“Oh, no, no," the elderly woman said. “You see, my backyard is right next to a golf course. A lot of Golfers come and pee through a knot hole in my fence, right into my flower garden. It used to really tick me off. Kills the flowers, you know. Then I thought, ‘why not make the best of it?'"

"So, now, I stand behind the fence by the knot hole, real quiet, with my hedge clippers," she continued.

"Every time some guy sticks his thing through my fence, I surprise him, grab hold of it and say, ‘O.K., buddy! Give me $20, or off it comes.'"

“Well, that seems only fair,”the cop said with a laugh. “OK. Good luck! Oh, by the way, what’s in the other bag?”

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