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(Message started by: Lavalas on Jun 11^th, 2006, 9:48am)

Title: A Mysterious Suicide
Post by Lavalas on Jun 11^th, 2006, 9:48am

A man wakes up in the middle of the night goes upstairs and fixes a sandwhich, as he walks downstairs he turns off the light. The next morning he wakes to a pot of coffee and sits down to read the newspaper and then kills himself.

Why did he kill himself?

Title: Re: A Mysterious Suicide
Post by Grimbal on Jun 12^th, 2006, 2:04am

Let me see...

Was it an albatros sandwich?

Did he read there is a red-eyed monk living on the small island where he lives?

He didn't find the third work in "-gry"?

Title: Re: A Mysterious Suicide
Post by graphia on Jun 12^th, 2006, 4:37am

I'm surprised anyone would want to be in that line of work, the suicide rate is phenomenal!

Title: Re: A Mysterious Suicide
Post by honkyboy on Jun 12^th, 2006, 5:11am

His life as a sandwich repairman had gotten out of hand. Soon he resorted to affairs with hot beverages. It was all more than he could handle.

Title: Re: A Mysterious Suicide
Post by graphia on Jun 12^th, 2006, 6:45am

Right, let's see how many answers we can get ;)

[hide]The newspaper was dated 29 October, 1929[/hide]

[hide]The police had executed a person that morning for a crime the lighthou - uh - man had committed and he was overcome with guilt[/hide]

[hide]Zombies outside the window[/hide]

[hide]He's a prison guard, while the light was out D Block made a run for it and got away[/hide]

[hide]His wife caught him cheating and put arsenic in the coffee[/hide]

[hide]The meat he put on his sandwich was his wife's head![/hide]:o

[hide]He was behind on his protection payments to Big Frankie, and upsetting Big Frankie was suicide[/hide]

[hide]He was bi-polar and had been working up to the decision for some time[/hide]

Good grief this is macabre ::)

Title: Re: A Mysterious Suicide
Post by Grimbal on Jun 12^th, 2006, 7:37am

[hide]He was reading in a train that just entered a tunnel[/hide]

[hide]He was a dormant agent brainwashed to do some suicide action when the secret phrase was published in the newspaper.[/hide]

[hide]He read that the US navy will open fire on whatever they find on their route that will refuse to change course[/hide]

[hide]The guy, stranded on a desert island has read the same newspaper every morning for 10 years. This one time was too much.[/hide]

[hide]The guy read in the newspaper that one of the 100 prisonners took his chance and declared that all prisonners have been in the meeting room. He is one of the 100 prisonners. He hasen't been in the meeting room.[/hide]

[hide]He read the riddle section of the newspaper. They published the same old riddle again![/hide]

[hide]His son has been convicted as the serial killer who tortured and killed many children, he was sentenced to death. This night, to save his son, he decided to commit a similar crime while the son is in prison. This morning, he learned that the real serial killer confessed his crimes, so that his son had been set free in the evening.[/hide]

Title: Re: A Mysterious Suicide
Post by Icarus on Jun 12^th, 2006, 3:38pm

on 06/11/06 at 09:48:03, Lavalas wrote:

Just so you know, Lavalas, this is one of the more commonly posted riddles. That is why, rather than making a serious effort to actually solve it as intended, Grimbal, graphia, and honkey-boy, are coming up with alternate solutions. They all already know what the intended answer is, as graphia even hints in one of his answers.

Title: Re: A Mysterious Suicide
Post by Lozboz on Jun 22^nd, 2006, 2:53am

on 06/11/06 at 09:48:03, Lavalas wrote:

Kill Himself? Oh that! Don't worry about that he does it every morning.

No seriously maybe he's just emo?
(I have nothing against emos I simply ask that they don't pretend to be something else. "You know who you are")

Title: Re: A Mysterious Suicide
Post by Aravis on Jul 21^st, 2006, 11:54am

If my wife looked like a coffee pot, I might be put out as well.

Title: Re: A Mysterious Suicide
Post by alien on Jul 21^st, 2006, 3:55pm

I do know the answer to this, as a lot of other riddlers, but it is a bit unrealistic to me. He [hide]works where he works, (I do not want to say where and spoil the riddle to a newbie)
and as far as I know, the light has to be on all night, every night. So how did he manage to forget this, and turn off this particular most important of all lights there, which is quite criminal because of possible consequences? I am guessing he was new, also absent-minded, even though this job requires a rather stable person. But he fixes a sandwich, and then he wakes to a pot of coffee and sits down to read the newspaper. This sounds like his easygoing typical routine, nothing unusual there, unless, of course, the most important thing about his routine, about his job, that is, turning off the wrong light. [/hide]

Title: Re: A Mysterious Suicide
Post by cchris on Jul 21^st, 2006, 4:56pm

on 06/12/06 at 02:04:05, Grimbal wrote:

He didn't find the third work in "-gry"?

Aggry, meagry, puggry, the word "gry" itself...