Jest for Fun

The chief resident-in-training at our hospital was putting a patient 
on a bypass machine in preparation for open-heart surgery. The 
patient, who happened to be a policeman, had his aorta clamped, and 
then circulation was stopped so that the operation could be done on a 
non-beating heart. The atmosphere in the operating room had been 
serious until the clamp was applied. Just then the attending physician 
remarked, "Hey, you just arrested a cop!