An American
tourist in Moscow found himself
needing to get rid of a large supply of
garbage from his recent
stay at an apartment. After a long search, he
just couldn’t find any
place to discard of it. So, he just went down
one of the side
streets to dump it there.

Yet, he was stopped by a Moscow police
officer, who said, “Hey you,
what are you doing?”

“I have to
throw this away,” replied the tourist.

“You can’t throw it away
here. Look, follow me,” the policeman
offered.

The police
officer led him to a beautiful garden with lots of grass,
pretty
flowers, and manicured hedges. “Here,” said the cop, “dump all
the
garbage you want.”

The American shrugs, opens up the large bags of
garbage, and dumps them
right on the flowers.

“Thanks for
giving me a place to dump this stuff. This is very nice of
you. Is this
Russian courtesy?” asked the tourist.

“No. This is the Amer
ican Embassy.”