There once was a man who was obsessed with trains.
One day, he managed to hijack one. As you’d expect, it ends in tragedy as he crashes it and kills almost everybody on board.
He’s put on trial for murder and sentenced to death. For his last meal, he requests a banana. After he finishes it, they strap him into the electric and pull the switch but… nothing happens.
This was the first time the chair had ever malfunctioned. They try a couple more times, but it just wouldn’t work. And because you can’t punish a person twice for the same crime, he’s let go.
Maniac that he is, the man hijacks another train just a few days. His train driving skills obviously hadn’t improved, and again he crashes. More people are killed.
He stands trial again, and is again sentenced to death. As before, his last meal request is for a banana.
After he’s strapped into the chair for a second time, the executioner pulled the switch. Again, nothing happens. He’s set free again.
The train-obsessed psycho wastes no time in hijacking yet another train and – you guessed it – crashes it.
The trial this time around lasts a record short time, and he’s convicted and sentenced to death again.
He asks for a banana again for his last meal, but this time the warden refuses. “Not this time, you son of a bitch. We’re on to your banana trick, no way you’re escaping again!”
He’s instead given a steak dinner before he’s put in the chair for the third time.
The executioner flips the switch… and nothing happens again.
The warden is furious. “WHO GAVE HIM A BANANA?”
The guards all deny doing so, a couple even mentioning that they’d been with him the whole time and not a single fruit had come within 50 meters of them.
What they couldn’t figure out was that the banana had nothing to do with any of this. The guy was just a really bad conductor.