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(Message started by: cheesepuff on Nov 10^th, 2005, 10:09pm)

Title: electricity outage
Post by cheesepuff on Nov 10^th, 2005, 10:09pm

there is a man with his housekeeper. He rents a cabin with a wood. One day, his housekeeper is dead. He called a detective at noon. He told the detective as he took out some ice cubes from the fridge and put them into drinks. He gave the detective one. "I rented a cabin to work on my book. At 8 PM there was a power outage. I was angry, but couldn't do much about it. I got up at midnight. I saw my housekeeper and thought she was a burglar. I am trained in self-defense and attacked her. I accidentaly killed her."

The detective suddenly got arrested him. Why?

Title: Re: electricity outage
Post by Padzok on Nov 11^th, 2005, 12:47am

Because the detective did not rush blindly into such matters, and so, before the arrest s/he had already [hide]checked the fridge ran on mains electricity, and found out the temperature in that area between 8pm and midnight, and checked the insulation properties of the fridge[/hide]

Title: Re: electricity outage
Post by Three Hands on Nov 11^th, 2005, 5:05am

I can think of a number of reasons:

The light-levels at midnight with no artificially generated light were sufficiently low that seeing someone is implausible - the man would require additional light to have been aware of the burglar.

The man was trained in self-defence, and so should have been more than capable of simply restraining or rendering incapable a random interloper, rather than killing them. Guilty at least of manslaughter.

The injuries sustained by the housekeeper were inconsistent with an unarmed assault, so the man is clearly lying.

The detective notices that the ice-cubes shouldn't be fizzing, recognizes the attempt to poison the investigator, and so arrests the man for attempted murder.

The man had been suspected of robbery, and so was arrested for that. Gaining information about the murder case was just a bonus.

Title: Re: electricity outage
Post by cheesepuff on Nov 11^th, 2005, 6:25pm

padzok is close, but that's not the anwer I was looking for... I got this from someone and in the answer the detective didn't check the electrity... lets just say the detective was instead just the closest person to the cabin

Title: Re: electricity outage
Post by Padzok on Nov 12^th, 2005, 1:15am

on 11/11/05 at 18:25:34, cheesepuff wrote:

If the detective was closest to the cabin then
[hide]s/he may know whether there was a power outage in the area; but that doesn't prove if there is one in the cabin or not.[/hide]

Personally [hide]if I was a detective who was called at noon to a killing which allegedly happened 12 hours earlier, that alone would be enough to invite the only witness for a friendly chat down at the station. If medical examiner says the vic has been dead for 12 hours plus, then I arrest the guy for not calling sooner. If the vic is recently deceased, then I arrest the guy for saying it happened at midnight, when really it happened in daylight. [/hide]

But what I would not do is [hide]make an arrest based on the unmelted icecubes without checking the facts more carefully [/hide] ::)

Title: Re: electricity outage
Post by Icarus on Nov 12^th, 2005, 10:44am

I hope you don't mean that Padzok is close because he used the word "Blindly"...

Title: Re: electricity outage
Post by cheesepuff18 on Nov 12^th, 2005, 6:54pm

this is cheesepuff from another comp.

um... these riddles are to mostly find the mistake in the stories... so its actually the [hide]unmelted ice cubes[/hide] sorry, didn't look so much into it...

Title: Re: electricity outage
Post by Grimbal on Nov 13^th, 2005, 3:10am

I really don't understand.
[hide]There was a power outage from 8pm to midnight. But now it is noon. If the power outage didn't last the whole night and the whole morning, the water could freeze again in these little trays.[/hide]

Title: Re: electricity outage
Post by Logix128 on Dec 6^th, 2005, 3:02pm

padzok: his phone may require electricity to run

Title: Re: electricity outage
Post by Mattish on Jul 28^th, 2006, 10:57am

[hide]The water would refreeze if it were in the freezer and not just in the fridge as the riddle states. Then again, I don't know who keeps ice cubes in the fridge anyways.[/hide]

Title: Re: electricity outage
Post by Roy on Jul 28^th, 2006, 2:37pm

i do not belive that the riddle stated the power outage lasted until midnight. he simply said that there was a power outage at 8pm

Title: Re: electricity outage
Post by SWF on Aug 8^th, 2006, 9:30pm

I agree with the waiting 12 hours to call the police is extremely suspicious. It is also questionable that he would assume the housekeeper was a burgular. Either he should know his housekeeper was in the house, or the for some strange reason the housekeeper showed up unexpectedly at midnight to do some cleaning in the power outage.

There was no way the man could have known it was midnight when he supposedly woke up without lights or a non-electric clock. Of course the detective was keeping an eye out for what kind of clocks were around when he was invited in.

Killing somebody is probably good reason to be arrested even if there is an alibi. Also, to use "self-defense" and kill a supposed burgular when not being attacked it probably illegal, and that could be an even better reason to arrest him despite the presumed burgular being a housekeeper.

Title: Re: electricity outage
Post by Roy on Aug 8^th, 2006, 11:31pm

I noticed, is the word got, supposed to be a typo in the original post, the detective suddenly got arrested him. ?

Title: Re: electricity outage
Post by Death on Aug 10^th, 2006, 12:33pm

Im fairly sure its a typo

I agree that the housekeeper coming back in the middle of the night is suspicious (especial if the power was still out - although it could well have come back on before then). However, why would the guy wait 12 hours to report the crime if he was innocent? It doesn't make sence. Therefor, the only logical explanation is that the guy called/asked the housekeeper to come at midnight so that he could kill her. That would make it a premeditated murder, which, no matter how you look at it, is a crime heavily punishable by law.

Although that raises the question, where is the housekeeper staying? Surely if she was staying in the cabin then there is no way that the guy could be dumb enough to think that anyone would believe that he thought is was a burgular. And I'm fairly sure that she wouldn't be camping out in the middle of the woods.