- How can an idiot be a policeman? Answer me that.
- It's very simple. All he has to do is enlist.
5 seconds sound clip from the The Return of the Pink Panther (1975) movie soundboard.
You can hear this line at 00:19:51.036 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.
Quote context
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- How were you to know the bank was being robbed?
- I did not know the bank was being robbed because I was engaged in my sworn duty as a police officer.
- You didn't even arrest the old beggar.
- There was some question as to whether the beggar or his minkey was breaking the law.
- Minkey?
- What?
- That is correct, yes. Chimpanzee monkey.
- So I let them both off with a warning.
- The beggar was the lookout man for the gang.
- Why?
- He was blind. How can a blind man be a lookout?
- How can an idiot be a policeman? Answer me that.
- It's very simple. All he has to do is enlist.
- Shut up!
- How do you know he was blind?
- Oh, he told you so? And you believed him?
- I had no reason to doubt him.
- Because I'm a bigger liar than the beggar.
- You are suspended for six months without pay.
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Actors: Peter Sellers (Inspector Jacques Clouseau), Catherine Schell (Lady Claudine Litton), Christopher Plummer (Sir Charles Litton), Peter Arne (Colonel Sharki), Herbert Lom (Chief Inspector Charles Dreyfus)
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