The Mafia was looking for a new man to make weekly collections from all the private businesses subject to their protection racket.
As they were feeling the heat from the Police, they decided to use someone deaf for the job. If someone deaf gets caught, they figured that he wouldn't be able to communicate easily with the Police.
In his first week on the job the deaf debt collector picks up over $50,000. That's a lot of money he thinks and the deaf debt collector's greed gets the better of him. He decides to keep the money and he stashes it in a safe place.
However it's not long before the Mafia realizes that the collection is late and they send out a couple of heavies to look for the deaf debt collector.
They soon find him and they ask the deaf debt collector what he's done with the money. The problem is that deaf debt collector can't communicate with them either, so the Mafia heavies drag him off to an interpreter.
They get to a sign language interpreter and the leading Mafia then says, "I want ya to ask him where da money is."
So the interpreter signs, "Where's the money?"
The deaf debt collector tries to bluff his way out of his dilemma by saying, "I don't know what they're talking about."
The interpreter looks at the Mafia and says, "He's saying he doesn't know what you're talking about."
The Mafia reaches into his coat and pulls out a .44 Remington Magnum handgun which he points at the forehead of the deaf debt collector and then with real menace in his voice he says to the interpreter, "Ask him where da money is, and tell him I won't be askin' again."
So the interpreter immediately signs, "Where's the money? He says he won't ask again and I think he's serious."
At this point the deaf debt collector's nerve goes and he signs, "The $50,000 is in Central Park, hidden in the third tree stump on the left by the gate near 72nd Street on Central Park West, and close to Strawberry Fields."
Getting impatient, the Mafia looks at the interpreter and asks, "What did he say?"
The interpreter looks at the Mafia and says, "He says he still doesn't know what you're talking about, he thinks you're a pussy and he doesn't think you've got the balls to pull the trigger!"