> collections from all the private businesses that they were 'protecting'.
>
> Feeling the heat from the police force, they decided to use
> a deaf person for this job. If he were to get caught, he wouldn't
> be able to communicate to the police what he was doing.
>
> Well, on his first week, the deaf collector picks up over
> $50,000. He gets greedy, decides to keep the money and stashes it in
> a safe place.
>
> The Mafia soon realizes that their collection is late, and
> sends some of their hoods after the deaf collector. The hoods find the
> deaf collector and ask him where the money is. The deaf collector
> can't communicate with them, so the Mafia drags the guy to an
> interpreter. The Mafia hood says to the interpreter, "Ask him where the
> money is."
>
> The interpreter signs, "Where's the money?"
>
> The deaf replies, "I don't know what you're talking about."
> The interpreter tells the hood, "He says he doesn't know what
> you're talking about."
>
> The hood pulls out a large gun and places it in the ear of
> the deaf collector. "NOW ask him where the money is."
>
> The interpreter signs, "Where is the money?"
>
> The deaf man replies, "The $50,000 is in Central Park,
> hidden in the third tree stump on the left from the West 78th Street gate
> ."
>
> The interpreter says to the hood, "He says he still doesn't
> know what you're talking about, and doesn't think you have the guts to
> pull the trigger."
>
