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Status quo
« on: Aug 30th, 2007, 11:51am » |
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A man hits a woman on the head with the head of a hammer, causing a bruise, but a few of the righteous representatives of the law enforcement, whose presence is necessary, witnessed it, but didn't react. Why?
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Re: Status quo
« Reply #1 on: Aug 30th, 2007, 12:14pm » |
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The police officer was paralyzed by the toxin from badly prepared fugu he ate?
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Re: Status quo
« Reply #2 on: Aug 30th, 2007, 12:28pm » |
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There are many possible explanations:
i) The policeman was watching some kind of live show where the woman was demonstrating her power.
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ii)The man was himself a policeman and the woman was a criminal.
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iii)The man and the righteous policeman were the same person.
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iv)The policeman was watching a movie.
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Re: Status quo
« Reply #3 on: Aug 30th, 2007, 12:44pm » |
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The policemen were in topnotch health. Usually men demonstrate their power. She wasn't a criminal. No TV.
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Re: Status quo
« Reply #4 on: Aug 30th, 2007, 2:41pm » |
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Was the man a policeman?Was the woman unconscious?
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Re: Status quo
« Reply #5 on: Aug 30th, 2007, 3:00pm » |
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Was the man a policeman?Was the woman unconscious?
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Re: Status quo
« Reply #6 on: Aug 30th, 2007, 3:12pm » |
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Autopsy?
The woman was the policeman's step-mom?
It's carnaval, and the hammer is one of these huge plastic hammers that beep when you hit someone. Anyway, the policeman is not a real policeman. Just a disguise. (As it happens, in real life he is a policeman, which in fact helped a lot to find a convincing uniform. But in that particular moment, he is just disguised as a policeman.)
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Re: Status quo
« Reply #7 on: Aug 30th, 2007, 3:16pm » |
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No. And isn't that kind of autopsy a bit unorthodox?
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Re: Status quo
« Reply #8 on: Aug 30th, 2007, 3:17pm » |
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No plastic either.
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Re: Status quo
« Reply #9 on: Aug 30th, 2007, 3:19pm » |
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She was wearing a hard hat, which they started testing on at a construction site. It was a necessary precaution because they needed to know the limit of which the hat would break.
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Re: Status quo
« Reply #10 on: Aug 30th, 2007, 3:34pm » |
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Again, pretty woman is a really good choice. No, I had something else in mind..
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Re: Status quo
« Reply #11 on: Aug 30th, 2007, 10:39pm » |
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The man was a surgeon and he was cracking her skull to perform brain surgery?
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Re: Status quo
« Reply #12 on: Aug 30th, 2007, 10:45pm » |
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on Aug 30th, 2007, 10:39pm, Sameer wrote:| The man was a surgeon and he was cracking her skull to perform brain surgery? |
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Ouch!  I guess that's one way to knock out a patient... 
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Re: Status quo
« Reply #13 on: Aug 31st, 2007, 1:23am » |
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The policemen don't do anything because they are scared to be next. They pretend to see nothing.
Or: They are watching them on a video survillance tape after a burglary.
Or: The woman is dead and offered her body for experimentation. The man is a forensic expert trying to assess the force needed to break a human skull with a hammer. This is because they are investigating such a murder case.
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Re: Status quo
« Reply #14 on: Aug 31st, 2007, 3:49am » |
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Icey,you didn't amswer my question yet.
Was the woman unconscious?Or rather dead?
If yes,then I'll go with Grimbal's solution of the forensic test.
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Re: Status quo
« Reply #15 on: Aug 31st, 2007, 5:35am » |
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on Aug 31st, 2007, 1:23am, Grimbal wrote:| The policemen don't do anything because they are scared to be next. They pretend to see nothing. |
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These policemen don't get scared. They are from Alabama.
on Aug 31st, 2007, 3:49am, gotit wrote:
Was the woman unconscious?Or rather dead?
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No.
No satisfying answer yet.
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Re: Status quo
« Reply #16 on: Aug 31st, 2007, 5:42am » |
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on Aug 31st, 2007, 5:35am, Iceman wrote:| These policemen don't get scared. They are from Alabama. |
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You don't mean the woman is black, and that explains everything, do you?
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Re: Status quo
« Reply #17 on: Aug 31st, 2007, 5:59am » |
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It doesn't look righteous to me. 
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Re: Status quo
« Reply #18 on: Aug 31st, 2007, 6:04am » |
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The policemen have been trying to nail her for a long time?
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Re: Status quo
« Reply #19 on: Aug 31st, 2007, 7:22am » |
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He was carving the woman out of marble.
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Re: Status quo
« Reply #20 on: Aug 31st, 2007, 11:22am » |
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on Aug 31st, 2007, 6:04am, Grimbal wrote:| The policemen have been trying to nail her for a long time? |
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No. They are on the same side.
on Aug 31st, 2007, 7:22am, Whiskey Tango Foxtrot wrote:| He was carving the woman out of marble. |
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Nope.
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Re: Status quo
« Reply #21 on: Aug 31st, 2007, 11:56am » |
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If a man hits a woman with a hammer,it is quite unlikely that the woman will suffer only a bruise,unless the man had hit her by accident and the hammer did not hit her hard.So,I think that the policemen didn't react because it was an accident.
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Re: Status quo
« Reply #22 on: Aug 31st, 2007, 12:40pm » |
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on Aug 31st, 2007, 11:56am, gotit wrote:| If a man hits a woman with a hammer,it is quite unlikely that the woman will suffer only a bruise,unless the man had hit her by accident and the hammer did not hit her hard.So,I think that the policemen didn't react because it was an accident. |
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You think correctly. Yes, it was an accident, and now we just need the location, that is, where did it happen. So think about the man and the woman, something about them, who are they..
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Re: Status quo
« Reply #23 on: Aug 31st, 2007, 1:31pm » |
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It might be that they were at a house that was the location of some crime.The man was also a policeman and he was on top of a ladder trying to break somthing on top of the wall.The hammer fell from his hand and hit the woman.The woman could either be a policewoman or the owner of the house.
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Re: Status quo
« Reply #24 on: Aug 31st, 2007, 2:55pm » |
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Nope. Wrong house.
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