A Christmas Story (Supposedly True!)
Once there was a court clerk in a local county courthouse, who hated fake Christmas trees. Every year, he always put up a real tree in the Clerk's Office. One year the fire marshal happened to do a building inspection of the courthouse just before Christmas, while the clerk was out to lunch, and noticed the tree. The fire marshal was in a grouchy mood and decided that the tree represented a fire hazard, and he wrote a citation for a violation of the fire code, which prohibited "live" trees in a public building, and gave it to the clerk's assistant.
When the clerk returned from lunch and was given the citation, he hit the roof. Determined that no fire marshal was going to spoil his Christmas, he decided to fight the citation. So he went to the morgue in the adjoining police station, and asked the Coroner for his help. The Coroner came over and put a toe tag on the tree, listing the cause of death as "Being cut off at ground level".
The clerk called the fire marshal back to re-inspect, and showed him the toe tag on the tree. He told him that when the Coroner pronounces something "dead", it is legally dead, and therefore the citation for having a "live" tree was obviously in error, and wasn't worth the paper it was written on.
The fire marshal thought about it, and came to the realization that, since he would have to pursue the fire code violation in that very courtroom, this was probably one argument he wasn't going to win. So he let them have their tree.
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