Borrow some money

The court appointed lawyer was visiting the prisoner, and asked what he was in for. "All I did was borrow some money from a guy," he was told.

"That's a terrible thing for them to do!" the lawyer commented. "Why would they throw you in jail just for borrowing money?"

"The trouble is," the man explained, "that the guy I was trying to borrow it from woke up before I was finished."