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So me and my partner bust these two guys on a B&E on the wrong side of the train tracks and haul their butts downtown to get confessions.

We separate 'em into to different rooms and really put the screws to 'em. We musta questioned 'em for hours because the sludge coming out of the coffee pot started to taste more like 10w30 than Folgers.

So these perps have all the answers, and we can't figure out how, because we got a strong hunch we got these guys cold. So we figure they're using quantum entanglement to keep their answers lined up. Each perp has his entangled electron, spin it right for yes, left for no, and up for maybe. So we turn up the heat and drop a Multi-prover interactive proof in their laps, and all of a sudden their stories don't line up so well anymore.

Another hour of good-cop, bad-cop, and we get one perp to roll on the other. Wasn't long till they were both singing like canaries and my partner and I had a couple of fat collars.

A job well done.



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