A seargent is
interviewing three cadets who
were training to become detectives. To test
their skills in
recognizing a suspect, he shows the first cadet a picture
for 5 seconds
and then hides it.

“This is your suspect, how would you recognize
him?” The first cadet
answers, “That’s easy, we’ll catch him fast
because he only has one
eye!” The seargent says,
“Well…uh…that’s because the picture I
showed is his side profile.”

Slightly flustered by this ridiculous response, he flashes the picture

for 5 seconds at the second cadet and asks him, “This is your suspect,

how would you recognize him?”

The second cadet smiles, and
says, “Ha! He’d be too easy to catch
because he only has one ear!”

The policeman angrily responds, “What’s the matter with you
two? Of
course only one eye and one ear are showing because it’s a
picture of
his side profile! Is that the best answer you can
come up with?!”

Extremely frustrated at this point, he shows
the picture to the third
cadet and in a very testy voice asks, “This
is your suspect, how would
you recognize him?” He quickly adds,
“Think hard before giving me a
stupid answer.”

The cadet looks
at the picture intently for a moment and says, “The
suspect wears
contact lenses.”

The seargent is surprised and speechless
because he really doesn’t
know himself if the suspect wears contacts or
not.

“Well, that’s an interesting answer. Wait here for a few
minutes
while I check his file and I’ll get back to you on that.”
He leaves the
room and goes to his office, checks the suspect’s
file in his computer,
and comes back with a beaming smile on his
face. “Wow! I can’t
believe it. It’s TRUE! The suspect does in fact
wear contact lenses. Good
work! How were you able to make such an
astute observation?”

“That’s easy,” the cadet replied. “He
can’t wear regular glasses
because he only has one eye and one
ear.”