At Least Get It Right
IllustrationStory★★★Some criminals prove all too well that intelligence is not a prerequisite for a life of crime. A San Diego district attorney asked a robbery victim to study a lineup of five people. The D.A. had placed the suspect in the middle and had told each man to step forward saying, “Give me all your money, and I need some change in quarters and dimes.” The first two did it right. Then the middle fellow broke the case. When they asked him to step up and say the lines, he argued, “But that wasn’t what I said to her!”
The point
A robbery suspect, asked to repeat the getaway line in a police lineup, blurted out his real words, unwittingly confessing his own crime.
Scripture
Numbers 32:23Luke 12:2
Audience
Adults
Tone
Humorous · Convicting
To tell aloud
under a minute · 99 words