An IRS employee, not content to conduct scams from his office, was out shoplifting in an exclusive jewelry store. But the shopkeeper caught him red-handed trying to steal a watch.

Not wanting his bosses to discover he was freelancing in crime, the IRS employee made an offer. "Listen, I know you don't want any trouble either. What do you say I just buy the watch, and we forget about this?"

The manager, not knowing he had a terrorist on the hook and just seeing an opportunity to make a sale, agreed and wrote up the sales slip.

The IRS employee looked at the slip and protested, "This is a little more than I intended to spend. Can you show me something less expensive?"