Gambling Joke 9
A group of friends from a small country town decided to spend a weekend weekend gambling in Las Vegas. They tried their luck at one casino on the first night then split up on the next night to try out other casinos.
One of the men went into a casino and won $250,000. He didn’t want any of the others to know about it, so he decided not to return with them, instead booking a later plane trip home and arriving early on Monday morning.
He then went out to the backyard of his house, dug a hole and buried all of the money in it. The following morning he walked outside and found that the hole had been dug up again.
He noticed footsteps leading from the hole to the house next door, which was owned by a deaf-mute. On the same street lived an old man who understood sign language and was a friend of the deaf man.
Taking his shotgun, the enraged man went to awaken the old man and dragged him to the deaf man’s house.
“You tell this guy that if he doesn’t give me back my $250,000 I’m going to kill him!” he screamed at the old man.
The old man conveyed the message to his friend, and his friend replied in sign language, “I hid it in my backyard, underneath the lemon tree.”
The old man turned to the man with the gun and said, “He’s not going to tell you. He said he’d rather die first.”


