pretty much true.

The UK Taxation Office suspected a fishing boat owner wasn't

paying

proper wages to his deckhand and sent an agent to investigate him.



AGENT: "I need a list of your employees and how much you pay them".



Boat Owner: "Well, there's Clarence, my deckhand, he's been with me for 3

years. I pay him




£400 a week plus free room and board. Then there's

the

mentally challenged guy. He works about 18 hours every day and does about

90% of the work around here. He makes about

£100 per week, pays his own

room

and board, and I buy him a bottle of Trawler rum and a dozen Crown

Lagers

every Saturday night so he can cope with life. He also gets to sleep with

my wife occasionally".


AUDITOR: "That's the guy I want to talk to - the mentally challenged

one".



Boat Owner: "That'll be me. What'd you want to know?