A fellow is walking down the street, and is accosted by a policeman. After brief questioning, the gentleman is arrested.

On facing the Magistrate, the policeman's statement is as follows, "Your Honour, the defendant was on Smith Street, carrying, on his back, a desk. He clutched in his left hand a typewriter, in his right, a wastepaper basket."

"I arrested him for impersonating an office, sir."