the joke is about how an inmate wants to help his old mom get the wood moved, split, piled, etc... so, he says where the guards overhear him how he hid the evidence in the woodpile, and that causes the cops to go to his moms place and move the wood pile piece by piece to find the evidence. After several fake stories told where the cops could overhear, and go do work at his moms place, all the chores get done.
http://teamthruxton.blogspot.com/2012/01/sortie-de-grange-difficile.html
Or the IRA member in imprisoned in Ireland who's Dad said he had no one to plow his garden in the spring. He said within hearing of a guard, "I buried the guns in me da's garden."
ReplyDeleteThe same story turned up long ago in an Ellery Queen mystery magazine (date and issue long forgotten, but probably in the 1970's), in which the prisoner gets his mom's garden dug. Who knows which version came first, but it was amusing.
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