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The standing dead
« on: Oct 30th, 2008, 6:15am » |
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A detective (NOT the one from Detective Conan, as I'm taking a break from that. Instead, this one is from another mystery manga, so if you already read this one, don't spoil it please. This manga is not as well known as Conan though...)
Anyways... a detective entered the kitchen of a very luxurious restaurant. He starts talking to one of the chefs there about some theif who was stealing cooking supplies (People need frying pans). The chef was quite worried because the equipment was all top of the line, and quite expensive. He looks into a room where, according the the chef, was where they boil soup. The window was fogged up, and the room was all steamy. The detective could see a shadow of a person inside. He felt bad for him, standing in all that heat. But he shook it off as he continued to log all the stolen items. Suddenly he heard a crash in the boiling room. He rushed in and found a chef collapsed on the floor. He immediately called the police.
A few minutes later, the police arrived on the scene. They saw the dead chef and questioned the detective a bit. To their surprise, the chef was already dead from a strike to the head. The chef wasn't killed with heatstroke. the detective actually thought that the chef was shot first, due the to red marks found on the dead chef's apron. However, he discovered that it was just tomato sauce.
The detective was stuck pondering in the room, with the soup still bubbling in the background. The cops had removed the body and the reporters were swarming around. Because he had known the police chief (he solved a bunch of random murders), he wa allowed to stay on scene. Noone was in the room, but the bustling of the commotion outside disturbed his thinking process. So he close the door and thought. He thought for many minutes, pausing only to sample the soup (It was good, but he ended up burning his tongue) He stared out the window, having a perfectly clear view of the other chefs outside, some crying, some scared. He saw a cute policewoman walking by the window. He winked at her, and she totally ignored him. slightly put off, he sighed, his breath fogging up the window. He pondered the question: how was the chef standing as he was dead? (for proof had shown that the body had been dead for a few hours) He saw the chef standing there just a little while ago. How did the murderer keep him standing?
He soon had a genius idea, ran out, and eventually solved the mystery of how the chef was kept standing, which eventually led to the arrest of the murderer, due to some fingerprints and stuff...
The murderer had to keep the chef standing to keep his alibi strong, so did he do it?
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Re: The standing dead
« Reply #1 on: Oct 30th, 2008, 7:24am » |
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He froze him?
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Re: The standing dead
« Reply #2 on: Oct 30th, 2008, 9:51am » |
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He was made to stand with the support of ice cubes that eventually melted in the heat.
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Re: The standing dead
« Reply #3 on: Oct 30th, 2008, 10:26am » |
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No. Though the freezing could work, it still isn't the intended answer
I mean, I typed all that, so it can't be that simple
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Re: The standing dead
« Reply #4 on: Oct 30th, 2008, 4:06pm » |
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Soup's boiling in a closed room, and the window's clear? hmm....
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Re: The standing dead
« Reply #5 on: Oct 30th, 2008, 7:10pm » |
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think about it 
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Re: The standing dead
« Reply #6 on: Oct 30th, 2008, 7:11pm » |
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hehe, i like this manga,
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Re: The standing dead
« Reply #7 on: Oct 30th, 2008, 9:09pm » |
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Though it's quite creepy at times
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Re: The standing dead
« Reply #8 on: Oct 31st, 2008, 5:33pm » |
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yeah, it's really creepy when the criminals transform,
but it's funny when he's being sadistic.
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Re: The standing dead
« Reply #9 on: Nov 1st, 2008, 2:22pm » |
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The soup is not really soup is it? I was thinking is was partly made with liquid Nitrogen since this would not cause the windows to steam up. And the fact that it was super cold would explain why he hurt his tongue.
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Re: The standing dead
« Reply #10 on: Nov 1st, 2008, 2:44pm » |
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As far as I know, if you taste liquid nitrogen, your tongue will freeze in no time. And if you used your finger for tasting it, you willl not even be able to taste it, because your finger will freeze in that case.
The shadow that the detective saw was not of the dead body but of the murderer himself. As the detective was busy talking to the chef, the murderer dropped something on the floor and escaped quickly. The detective thought that he had seen the shadow of the dead man standing
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Re: The standing dead
« Reply #11 on: Nov 1st, 2008, 3:03pm » |
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on Nov 1st, 2008, 2:44pm, gotit wrote:As far as I know, if you taste liquid nitrogen, your tongue will freeze in no time. And if you used your finger for tasting it, you willl not even be able to taste it, because your finger will freeze in that case.
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Depends how much you put in the spoon. I saw a guy do it in a science show. Nitrogen boils at a much higher temperature than liquid helium or liquid hydrogen. Sure it burns, and can cause injury but it's not as dangerous as the other two.
From Wikepedia:
"Direct skin contact with liquid nitrogen causes severe frostbite (cryogenic burns) within seconds, though not instantly on contact, depending on form of liquid nitrogen (liquid vs. mist) and surface area of the nitrogen-soaked material (soaked clothing or cotton causing more rapid damage than a spill of direct liquid to skin, which for a few seconds is protected by the Leidenfrost effect)."
"The Leidenfrost effect is a phenomenon in which a liquid, in near contact with a mass significantly hotter than its boiling point, produces an insulating vapor layer which keeps that liquid from boiling rapidly."
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Re: The standing dead
« Reply #12 on: Nov 1st, 2008, 5:54pm » |
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no to all
I'm pretty sure I've heard a Darwin Award for someone blowing liquid nitrogen smoke (and then accidentally swallowing it)
The soup was totally normal (actually, it was good. But it was too hot for the detective)
And the chef that the detective was talking to was the murderer so the person standing in the boiling room was actually the dead... we're just going to call him boiler to avoid any confusion
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Re: The standing dead
« Reply #13 on: Nov 4th, 2008, 6:09am » |
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since it's been a few days. Here's a hint 
Freezing had something to do with it
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Re: The standing dead
« Reply #14 on: Nov 4th, 2008, 5:26pm » |
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the corpse was frozen?
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Re: The standing dead
« Reply #15 on: Nov 4th, 2008, 7:14pm » |
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The corpse was not frozen
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Re: The standing dead
« Reply #16 on: Nov 6th, 2008, 8:00am » |
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The detective thought that he saw chef's shadow, but it was shadow of something made out of ice?
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Re: The standing dead
« Reply #17 on: Nov 6th, 2008, 9:33pm » |
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on Oct 30th, 2008, 6:15am, cheesepuff wrote:
Yes, he did 
OK, well, what about: The soup was frozen in the shape of a chief
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Re: The standing dead
« Reply #18 on: Nov 7th, 2008, 4:10am » |
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Nope. The boiler was the one that the detective saw through the foggy windows. No frozen statues
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Re: The standing dead
« Reply #19 on: Nov 11th, 2008, 7:39am » |
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Jeez, cheesepuff! You are making us think!
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Re: The standing dead
« Reply #20 on: Nov 11th, 2008, 9:33am » |
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Yes. But all the details come into play. Even the seemingly random tomato and woman cop crossing in front of the window.
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Re: The standing dead
« Reply #21 on: Nov 11th, 2008, 9:34am » |
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Oh and here's another hint: in the whole kitchen, only the boiling room was foggy when the detective first came in
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Re: The standing dead
« Reply #22 on: Nov 12th, 2008, 5:33pm » |
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was the murderer the first chef?
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Re: The standing dead
« Reply #23 on: Nov 12th, 2008, 6:50pm » |
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Yeah, but the question is how did he keep the dead guy standing while the detective came?
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Re: The standing dead
« Reply #24 on: Nov 13th, 2008, 8:31am » |
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The window of the room is actually a one-sided mirror. What the detective saw "inside" was actually outside. The shadow he saw was the first chef himself. The first chef made a movement like boiling soup, but with the left hand, knowing that in the mirror the image would be reversed. The detective didn't recognize him because the mirror was all fogged up.
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