Joke

A man named Bob, living in NYC, was a photographer. He wasn't very good, but he did manage to make a living in Central Park taking pictures of children on his pet Llama. The problem was that he made enough to survive, but not much else. He could not afford to properly board his Llama. So he simply kept the Llama in his small apartment. The smell eventually caused his neighbors to complain.

Animal control came and determined he could not keep the Llama in his apartment. He was issued a summons and given 48 hours to turn the Llama in down at the shelter. He did not know what to do, the Llama was his means of support. A friend of Bob's came up with a plan. He said, "The people down at the shelter are not going to know what a Llama is, so just go and get another animal and turn that in." Bob decided that was a good idea. The next day Bob went out to a Long Island farm and bought a goat, brought it down to the shelter, and turned the goat in with the summons for the Llama.

All seemed well for about a week, but one day his doorbell rang and it was 2 fire marshals. They showed Bob his summons and a photo of the goat and said he was under arrest for the fraudulent compliance with the summons. As they led him away in handcuffs, Bob said he understood what he did was wrong, but wanted to know why they sent fire marshals? They said what he did was under their jurisdiction.

Bob said, "How is that?"

They replied, "..because you turned in a false Llama".