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(Message started by: Sameer on Nov 26^th, 2006, 2:04am)

Title: The Late Report
Post by Sameer on Nov 26^th, 2006, 2:04am

Ok I found a lateral puzzles book lying around in my book collection, so taking no credit for the puzzles I am going to post here, I start my series of lateral thinking puzzles. No hard feelings Iceman ;)

Here goes:

A man and his wife goes on a vacation. Two months later, the man called the police to report the location of a body near the place where he had been on holiday. The police thanked the man and then asked why it had taken him two months to report the body. What was the reason?

Title: Re: The Late Report
Post by Three Hands on Nov 26^th, 2006, 5:20am

[hide]He's just got back from the holiday he went on for 2 months without any access to telephones, and so reported it at the first convenient opportunity. After all, he's not going to ruin his holiday time just to call the police about a body being found. After all, it's not as if it's going anywhere...[/hide]

Either that or [hide]he's just come out of a coma, and his first action after two months is to report where he had found the body shortly before being put into a coma/otherwise disabled for two months[/hide]

Title: Re: The Late Report
Post by Iceman on Nov 26^th, 2006, 11:07am

on 11/26/06 at 02:04:51, Sameer wrote:

The more the merrier. ;)

Title: Re: The Late Report
Post by Sameer on Nov 26^th, 2006, 12:22pm

No Three Hands, he had a cellphone and he is a dutiful citizen. He was in perfect health and enjoyed his vacation.

Title: Re: The Late Report
Post by jollytall on Nov 26^th, 2006, 12:52pm

It could have been a two months long holiday and he saw the body on the way back home from the plane at take-off. He called the police immediately upon lending. It perfectly fits the story if you read it bit-by-bit. Police asked the wrong question and so the answer is: "No, I did not wait a minute. I called you immediately I could".

Title: Re: The Late Report
Post by Grimbal on Nov 26^th, 2006, 3:18pm

They are archaeologists and found remains of an early hominid. They call the police to safeguard the area while they are away.

Title: Re: The Late Report
Post by ChunkTug on Nov 26^th, 2006, 4:26pm

[hide]Two months after they are showing a slide show of their vacation photos to the neighbors. One of the neighbors asks, "So what's with the dead guy in the background?"[/hide]

Title: Re: The Late Report
Post by cchris on Nov 26^th, 2006, 5:53pm

I'd guess that the body [hide]washed up on shore[/hide].

Title: Re: The Late Report
Post by Sameer on Nov 26^th, 2006, 8:06pm

Chunktug got it. [hide]He saw the body in the photos he developed after he got back from vacation. He did not have the fancy digital camera, you know. Just the plain old film camera.[/hide]