Black Robbers

[Racing Rice]

I thought this was funny.


> BLACK ROBBERS - True Story
>
>
> By far the best email I've read so far...For anyone who didn't see
> David Letterman's take on this: (And it's a true story...)
>
> On a recent weekend in Atlantic City, a woman won a bucketful of
> quarters at a slot machine. She took a break from the slots for dinner

> with her husband in the hotel dining room. But first she wanted to
> stash the quarters in her room. "I'll be right back and we'll go to
> eat, "she told her husband and carried the coin-laden bucket to the
> elevator. As she was about to walk into the elevator she noticed two
> men already aboard. Both were black.
>
> One of them was tall...very tall...an intimidating figure. The woman
> froze. Her first thought was: These two are going to rob me. Her next
> thought was: Don't be a bigot; they look like perfectly nice
> gentlemen. But racial stereotypes are powerful, and fear immobilized
> her. She stood and stared at the two men. She felt anxious, flustered
> and ashamed. She hoped they didn't read her mind, but gosh, they had
> to know what she was thinking!!! Her hesitation about joining them in
> the elevator was all too obvious now. Her face was flushed. She
> couldn't just stand there, so with a mighty effort of will she picked
> up one foot and stepped forward and followed with the other foot and
> was on the elevator. Avoiding eye contact, she turned around stiffly
> and faced the elevator doors as they closed. A second passed, and the
> another second, and then another. Her fear increased! The elevator
> didn't move. Panic consumed her. My God, she thought, I'm trapped and
> about to be robbed! Her heart plummeted. Perspiration poured from
> every pore.
>
> Then one of the men said, "Hit the floor." Instinct told her to do
> what they told her. The bucket of quarters flew upwards! As she threw
> out her arms and collapsed on the elevator floor. A shower of coins
> rained down on her. Take my money and spare me, she prayed. More
> seconds passed.
>
> She heard one of the men say politely, "Ma'am, if you'll just tell us
> what floor you're going to, we'll push the button." The one who said
> it had a little trouble getting the words out. He was trying mightily
> to hold in a belly laugh. The woman lifted her head and looked up at
> the two men.
>
> They reached down to help her up.
>
> Confused, she struggled to her feet. "When I told my friend here to
> hit the floor," said the average sized one, "I meant that he should
> hit the elevator button for our floor. I didn't mean for you to hit
> the floor, ma'am." He spoke genially. He bit his lip. It was obvious
> he was having a hard time not laughing.
>
> The woman thought: My God, what a spectacle I've made of myself. She
> was too humiliated to speak. She wanted to blurt out an apology, but
> words failed her. How do you apologize to perfectly respectable
> gentlemen for behaving as though they were going to rob you? She
> didn't know what to say.
>
> The three of them gathered up the strewn quarters and refilled her
> bucket.
>
> When the elevator arrived at her floor they then insisted on walking
> her to her room. She seemed a little unsteady on her feet, and they
> were afraid she might not make it down the corridor. At her door they
> bid her a good evening. As she slipped into her room she could hear
> them roaring with laughter as they walked back to the elevator.
>
> The woman brushed herself off. She pulled herself together and went
> downstairs for dinner with her husband. The next morning flowers were
> delivered to her room - a dozen roses. Attached to EACH rose was a
> crisp one hundred dollar bill. The card said: "Thanks for the best
> laugh we've had in years."
>
>
>
> It was signed;
> Eddie Murphy
> Michael Jordan

[GT40FIED]

Hi...my name is Steve. Welcome to a few years ago.

[nonovurbizniz]

Is that really true? if so thats the funniest goddam thing I've ever heard

[nonovurbizniz]

ah... snopes says no...

Perhaps most damaging to his reputation was what Murphy calls "The Elevator Story." He explained:
"There's a story I was on an elevator with 10 bodyguards. An old lady was there. One bodyguard said, 'Hit the floor,' as in 'press the button.' The old lady got scared and dropped to the floor. And we were so embarrassed, and we helped her up, and sent her flowers and paid her hotel bill, and it never happened! Here's the clincher: Whenever I go, 'No, it never happened,' they always say, 'Yes, it did. My cousin was there.'"

[Racing Rice]

Yes, it's not real. I knew this before I posted, but if I would have said that it would have taken away from the funny of it.

This "story" has been around for EVA! I wanted to post it anyway.

[MissJDM]

Don't feel so bad, it's the first time I've read it!!

[Racing Rice]

Thanks, I knew there would be atleast one person.

[KwikR6]

I've never read it. And i don't care if it's real or not. Made me smile.

[dabouncerx24]

It's the first time that I've read that too.

Speaking of racial jokes...(if anyone gets offended, I'll delete it right away)

Why did so many black people die in the Vietnam war? Because when the white officer said get down, they all got up to dance.

[MissJDM]

lol. kinda cheesy but I still chuckled out loud for ya.