Motor-car speed

A man was driving along a road in his motor-car when a policeman on a motor-cycle stopped him and said, 'You were doing more than eighty kilometres an hour. You're only allowed to do eighty along this road.'

The man had to go to court, and there he told the judge that he was not driving at more than eighty kilometres an hour, and that he never drove at more than sixty-five.

The man's wife had been in the car too, when the policeman had stopped it, and she said to the judge, 'My husband was driving at only fifty kilometres an hour when the policeman stopped him.'

Her sister, Ann, had been in the car too, and she said to the judge, 'We were hardly moving at all when the policeman came up behind us.'

By this time, the judge had had quite enough. 'Stop now,' he said, 'or you will finish by hitting something behind your car.'