Three salesmen, an American, a German and an Irishman involved in a serious price fixing scam in South America are sentenced to death and brought to face their fate. The executioner says to the American salesman, "You have a choice: You may die either by lethal injection or electric chair." He chooses lethal injection. The injection is administered and he dies. The German salesman is offered the same choice. He selects electric chair. The executioner pulls the switch, but nothing happens. He tries again. Again nothing happens. "Well," the executioner says, "according to our laws, you made your choice and the punishment was administered, so we are done. You can go free." He goes free. Then the executioner asks the Irish salesman the same question: Lethal injection or electric chair? "I think lethal injection," he says. "The electric chair is obviously broken."
