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Title: Lightlessness leads to suicide Post by Melissa Villa on Jan 15th, 2005, 10:09am Everyday a man comes home and turns on the light and goes to bed. One day, he comes home and forgets to turn the light on. The next morning he reads the paper and kills himself. Why? I can't seem to find the answer, would anybody know? Thanks |
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Title: Re: Stumped on this riddle? Post by BNC on Jan 15th, 2005, 10:30am Hint (highlight to see): ::[hide] Where do people turn on the light by night as part of their job, with possible fatal results of failing to do it? [/hide]:: |
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Title: Re: Stumped on this riddle? Post by Villa on Jan 15th, 2005, 10:50am o.k. thanks, let me think about the possibilities. |
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Title: Re: Stumped on this riddle? Post by TenaliRaman on Jan 15th, 2005, 12:21pm ::[hide]a lighthouse ??? which does explain a lot except why would the person kill himself[/hide]:: -- AI |
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Title: Re: Stumped on this riddle? Post by Villa on Jan 15th, 2005, 12:24pm That's where I'm stumped myself??? on the killing himself? I was hoping someone knew the answer? But, that's fine, I'll keep racking my brains.... |
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Title: Re: Stumped on this riddle? Post by TenaliRaman on Jan 15th, 2005, 1:08pm There is a reason why he could have killed himself. Assume the night he forgot to turn the light on, a boat carrying a set of passengers was going along the shore and met with an accident. The passengers died. He reads this in next day's newspaper (pretty fast newspaper?). He has this feeling of guilt (*blink blink*) and he kills himself. (this doesnt fit my rationale but usually such questions really dont fit my rationale). -- AI |
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Title: Re: Stumped on this riddle? Post by Villa on Jan 15th, 2005, 1:19pm Great, reasoning! |
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Title: Re: Lightlessness leads to suicide Post by Icarus on Jan 16th, 2005, 10:41am Perhaps the country he lived in had severe penalties for dereliction of duty leading to deaths. Rather than face the disgrace of a trial and imprisonment before execution, he decided to end it now. |
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Title: Re: Lightlessness leads to suicide Post by Kazn on Jan 16th, 2005, 3:10pm Just a crazy idea, but [hide]this man's wife identifies his house by a light that he turns on. One day, she misses the lights and keeps driving on. She runs off a cliff and dies. THe man, overcome by grief, kills himself.[/hide] |
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Title: Re: Lightlessness leads to suicide Post by Logix128 on Feb 23rd, 2005, 7:31pm He obviously wanted a full tan for his hot date with Trisha |
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Title: Re: Lightlessness leads to suicide Post by cheesepuff on Nov 3rd, 2005, 5:26pm [hide]heard this before, he did work at the lighthouse and didn't turn on the light,resulting in a boat crash, but if I remember correctly, he just didn't want the impending lawsuits or something[/hide] |
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Title: Re: Lightlessness leads to suicide Post by Puffster on May 11th, 2006, 11:00pm [hide]I'm guessing the guy was a lighthouse operator. He forgot to turn on the light, and the next day he read in the paper that a ship crashed into the cliffs nearby and several people died. [/hide] |
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Title: Re: Lightlessness leads to suicide Post by Puffster on May 12th, 2006, 7:19am D'oh! I guess I should've read the earlier posts. :-[ I just get excited when I get a riddle on my own. Now I must go hang my head in shame. |
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Title: Re: Lightlessness leads to suicide Post by alien on May 17th, 2006, 7:51am suicide leads to lightlessness. |
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Title: Re: Lightlessness leads to suicide Post by william11141 on Jan 6th, 2007, 8:02pm hehe.... |
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