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(Message started by: koonie32 on Dec 11^th, 2006, 7:02pm)

Title: An awkward suicide
Post by koonie32 on Dec 11^th, 2006, 7:02pm

Note : this question is related to one of my other threads.

A man turns on the radio. After listening for 10 minutes he realizes he is done for.
He commit suicide
Note 1 : There is no "end of the world" type scenario here

Note 2 : NEVER has he comitted a crime and never will.

Note 3 : Think about the radio. Hint
[hide]It may not be what you are thinking[/hint]

you will need to ask yes / no questions. its impossible without it.

Title: Re: An awkward suicide
Post by flamingdragon on Dec 11^th, 2006, 7:19pm

The radio was anouncing they were being attacked by aliens!

Did what he hear on the radio make him commit suicide?

Was he listening to music?

Is he in a car?

Title: Re: An awkward suicide
Post by Whiskey Tango Foxtrot on Dec 11^th, 2006, 7:26pm

Did he work in a [hide]lighthouse[/hide]? If so, I'm gonna go jump off something.

Title: Re: An awkward suicide
Post by flamingdragon on Dec 11^th, 2006, 7:29pm

Would that be a lighthouse ur gonna jump off of?

Title: Re: An awkward suicide
Post by koonie32 on Dec 11^th, 2006, 7:31pm

No lighthouses involved. But there is something related near a lighthouse. (usually)

Title: Re: An awkward suicide
Post by raven on Dec 11^th, 2006, 8:04pm

Does it have to do with losing his entire fortune?

Title: Re: An awkward suicide
Post by Noke Lieu on Dec 11^th, 2006, 8:31pm

There's a couple of things-

[hide]
Lighthouse keeper, blown fuse, guilt, like WTF says[/hide]

That

[hide]
Restorative surgery to cure deafness, broken radio, depression[/hide]

all have

[hide]
In a submarine that's sitting on the bottom of the ocean, and hears the rescue team call it off[/hide]

something in common.

Title: Re: An awkward suicide
Post by flamingdragon on Dec 11^th, 2006, 8:36pm

Or it is Santa and he heard on the radio he doesn't exist. ::)

Title: Re: An awkward suicide
Post by mehtvi2 on Dec 11^th, 2006, 11:16pm

A power failure? Radio stops. His wife was on life-suport system; realizing that she's dead, he commits suicide.

Sound okay?

Title: Re: An awkward suicide
Post by Grimbal on Dec 12^th, 2006, 2:39pm

Guy is on a boat. They hit an iceberg. They are sinking. He takes the radio and calls:
- We are sinking, we are sinking.
After much trying, yes, he hears a voice. Faint. It is difficult to make out with all the static. But it is his only hope. He has to transmit his coordinates. Call for rescue. After a while he hears, with a strong foreign accent:
- What ... are you sinking ... about?

Title: Re: An awkward suicide
Post by koonie32 on Dec 12^th, 2006, 2:54pm

^Got it.

Title: Re: An awkward suicide
Post by flamingdragon on Dec 12^th, 2006, 3:45pm

Just that the radio person can't rescue them or actually the foreign accent part was what u were expecting?

Title: Re: An awkward suicide
Post by koonie32 on Dec 12^th, 2006, 3:50pm

foreign part no.

But it was close.

He had been in a sunken vessel. He heard on a radio signal he picked up that his vessel was doomed to flood and unable to be saved. Therefore he committed suicide.

Title: Re: An awkward suicide
Post by flamingdragon on Dec 12^th, 2006, 3:58pm

Thats what I was thinking, no way he could have been 100% right. ::)

Title: Re: An awkward suicide
Post by Grimbal on Dec 13^th, 2006, 2:53am

My story came from a (norwegian I think) advertisement for learning english. It shows the story from the point of view of a young coast guard.