A wealthy Italian industrialist was kidnapped by the Mafia, who demanded he tell them where his fortune was hidden.
They tied him to a chair at gunpoint and demanded the location of a large stash of cold cash they knew he had hidden. But he wouldn't tell them one single word!
Despite repeatedly beating and torturing him, after awhile the mafiosi realized that he wasn't going to comply with their demands, so they killed him.
At the gates of Heaven, before letting him in, God and Saint Peter were both there to meet him. They asked the man why he didn't just give his kidnappers the information they wanted, which might have saved his life.
The man frantically responded, "How the heck could I? Those rascals tied up both my hands!" -
