Another brief story from circa 1983 with names concealed to protect the innocent.  Kevin had been staying with Gramma and Grampa for some time.   Another cousin came to visit from out of state for a while.  This was a younger male cousin.  Anyway one hot summer day Kevin and I were on our way out the back porch to walk to Safeway or downtown and we saw a wallet laying on the back yard.  Kevin picked it up and was going through it to see who the owner was.  Surprised he finds a small, small, small amount of what looked liked marijuana.  We were both shocked so we put the wallet in a side drawer in the house and went on our way.  Talking about what to do we decided to teach cousin three a lesson.  Later that day when we were sitting around Gramma’s house cousin three arrived and was searching around the house but he would not tell us for what.  Finally he asked if either one of us had found a wallet.  Kevin with the straightest face most serious tone said. “Oh yeah, Uncle Jay (the Sheriff) was here for lunch and found something in the back yard.   I’m not sure if it was your wallet but man was he pissed.  He called the Police Station on his radio, said something about evidence, FBI, something like that…………”  You could see cousin three turn white as a ghost then take off out the back door.  Kevin and I were rolling on the ground laughing and decided to let him in on the joke.  We took off after him and after some time we finally convinced him that it was just a joke to get back at him for being so stupid.  He got his wallet back a little lighter and had a good lesson.  Besides that it was a great practical joke.  We laughed until we cried on this one.  We kept this one to ourselves because of the fact that some uncles would not have seen the humor in it all 

Told by Jon Clarkson via email sent to me on 7/10/99.