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Desert Lizard
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Dripping water
« on: Oct 3rd, 2006, 2:00am » |
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True story.
A man is lying in a bed and all he can hear is the sound of water dripping loudly into buckets beneath him. It starts off rapid and then gets slower. When the last drop falls and the dripping stops so does the man's heart.
Why did he die?
Clue: The man is blindfolded and strapped to the bed.
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graphia
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Re: Dripping water
« Reply #1 on: Oct 3rd, 2006, 4:03am » |
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I assume he's on some kind of IV drip with a hole in it?
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cchris
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Re: Dripping water
« Reply #2 on: Oct 3rd, 2006, 10:40am » |
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Is it really water, or is it blood?
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Desert Lizard
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Re: Dripping water
« Reply #3 on: Oct 3rd, 2006, 7:36pm » |
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It's really water. Plain ol' h2o. Nothing added.
He's not sick or injured in any way.
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Re: Dripping water
« Reply #4 on: Oct 3rd, 2006, 9:18pm » |
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Is it possible he drowned?
maybe it was poison or something...i dont know. just taking wild guesses
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Re: Dripping water
« Reply #5 on: Oct 4th, 2006, 1:17am » |
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Is this some kind of Frankenstein thing where his heart is powered by water, like a spinning wheel or something similar?
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TomC588
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Re: Dripping water
« Reply #6 on: Oct 4th, 2006, 6:46am » |
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Chinese water torture.
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Re: Dripping water
« Reply #7 on: Oct 4th, 2006, 9:29am » |
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He is a snowman.
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Re: Dripping water
« Reply #8 on: Oct 5th, 2006, 7:58pm » |
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on Oct 4th, 2006, 6:46am, TomC588 wrote:
Close, but not quite.
Hint: He doesn't know it is water.
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cchris
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Re: Dripping water
« Reply #9 on: Oct 6th, 2006, 9:37am » |
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Well perhaps he thinks that it's blood, or the blood of a loved one, or something, and he dies of a heart attack.
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He has an ear infection.
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Re: Dripping water
« Reply #11 on: Jan 5th, 2007, 3:04pm » |
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I know this story, even if I just made this account, I not telling cause I'll be a party pooper, but cchris's answer was EXTREMELY CLOSE!! Good Work!
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Re: Dripping water
« Reply #12 on: Jan 5th, 2007, 5:29pm » |
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He's hydrophobic?
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Re: Dripping water
« Reply #13 on: Jan 6th, 2007, 10:27am » |
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You guys all know about the placebo effect, right? It is possible that he thinks it is his blood, and he has a fear of blood. When he no longer hears the water drip, he thinks that he has lost all his blood, and he dies, even though he still has all of his blood in his body.
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Re: Dripping water
« Reply #14 on: Jan 6th, 2007, 3:22pm » |
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Yes, I think that is the correct answer. He is blindfolded so he dosent know what's going on. He hears water dripping, and thinks it's his blood. When it stops, he gets a heart attack from panic and dies. That is the correct answer, even if I didn't start it. 
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