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Mental
Hospital
Jim
and Mary were both patients in a mental hospital. One day while they
were walking past the hospital swimming pool, Jim suddenly jumped
into the deep end. He sunk to the bottom of the pool and stayed there.
Mary promptly jumped in to save him. She swam to the bottom and pulled
Jim out.
When the medical director became aware of Mary's heroic act
he immediately ordered her to be discharged from the hospital, as
he now considered her to be mentally stable. When he went to tell
Mary the news he said, "Mary, I have good news and bad news. The good
news is you're being discharged because since you were able to jump
in and save the life of another patient, I think you've regained your
senses. The bad news is, Jim, the patient you saved, hung himself
with his bathrobe belt in the bathroom. I am so sorry, but he's dead."
Mary replied "He didn't hang himself, I put him there to dry."
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