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(Message started by: Iceman on Mar 28th, 2007, 8:13am)
Title: Fugitive
Post by Iceman on Mar 28th, 2007, 8:13am
Richard has a pistol, and several men with superior firepower are pursuing him. There was nobody else, but at one moment, he fires a few shots in the air. Why?
Title: Re: Fugitive
Post by towr on Mar 28th, 2007, 8:16am
[hide]Trying to shoot a bird for dinner[/hide]?

[hide]Trying to bring down an avalanche on his pursuers[/hide]?

[hide]Just for the hell of it[/hide]?
Title: Re: Fugitive
Post by Whiskey Tango Foxtrot on Mar 28th, 2007, 8:28am
[hide]They were pursuing him in a blimp.[/hide]
Title: Re: Fugitive
Post by JiNbOtAk on Mar 28th, 2007, 6:24pm
I kinda agree with towr's second suggestion : [hide]He was tring to shoot at rocks / sand / ice, to create an avalance..[/hide]

Or maybe, [hide]Die Hard 3[/hide] ?
Title: Re: Fugitive
Post by Grimbal on Mar 29th, 2007, 6:50am
The USA plan a manned mission to Mars.
They have technical problems with life systems and can't actually send people there.
For political reasons (they don't want the USSR to reach there first) they decide to fake the thing.  They send an empty rocket.  They stage the mission on Earth, in some desert to show videos of the mission (you know, the way they did already for the Apollo mission).
Everything went fine, but on the flight back the rocket misses reentry.  The astronauts staging the mission realize that if they are ever seen again the whole story bursts.  They decide to run for their life and cross the desert to civilization.

Several men with superior firepower are pursuing them.  They split in the hope that at last one of them survives.  They have no weapon, only two alarm pistols that shoot flares.  The decide that when they get caught they shoot a few flares in the air to inform the other.

So, when Richard sees the men approaching, he shoots the rockets he has.
Title: Re: Fugitive
Post by Iceman on Mar 29th, 2007, 8:18am

on 03/28/07 at 08:16:46, towr wrote:
[hide]Trying to shoot a bird for dinner[/hide]?

So his pursuers easily locate him?


on 03/28/07 at 08:16:46, towr wrote:
[hide]

[hide]Trying to bring down an avalanche on his pursuers[/hide]?

Correct. 8)


on 03/28/07 at 08:16:46, towr wrote:
[hide]Just for the hell of it[/hide]?[/quote
This fugitive is not that stupid.



[quote author=Whiskey Tango Foxtrot link=board=riddles_whathappened;num=1175094820;start=0#2 date=03/28/07 at 08:28:52][hide]They were pursuing him in a blimp.[/hide]

I said no other folks, so who would pilot the blimp?



on 03/28/07 at 18:24:39, JiNbOtAk wrote:
Or maybe, [hide]Die Hard 3[/hide] ?

No helicopter.  ;) It all happened outside in the fresh air.




on 03/29/07 at 06:50:51, Grimbal wrote:
The USA plan a manned mission to Mars.
They have technical problems with life systems and can't actually send people there.
For political reasons (they don't want the USSR to reach there first) they decide to fake the thing.  They send an empty rocket.  They stage the mission on Earth, in some desert to show videos of the mission (you know, the way they did already for the Apollo mission).
Everything went fine, but on the flight back the rocket misses reentry.  The astronauts staging the mission realize that if they are ever seen again the whole story bursts.  They decide to run for their life and cross the desert to civilization.

Several men with superior firepower are pursuing them.  They split in the hope that at last one of them survives.  They have no weapon, only two alarm pistols that shoot flares.  The decide that when they get caught they shoot a few flares in the air to inform the other.

So, when Richard sees the men approaching, he shoots the rockets he has.

Great imagination.     :P
Title: Re: Fugitive
Post by JiNbOtAk on Mar 30th, 2007, 3:54am
I do say Icey, you really are a movie buff..  :P
Title: Re: Fugitive
Post by Iceman on Mar 30th, 2007, 7:11am
Hollywood movies are not so bad. And good idea regarding Die Hard 3 suggestion, but he fired w/o aim.      
Title: Re: Fugitive
Post by Grimbal on Mar 30th, 2007, 9:04am
My solution also comes from a movie.
Title: Re: Fugitive
Post by Iceman on Mar 30th, 2007, 10:09am
I remember now. That was an old movie. I wasn't even born back then. I am very young: I'm only 29. I still play hide-and-seek, Monopoly, watch cartoons. My mother embarrasses me by calling me from the window to come home for the dinner. Yes, these are the days of innocent youth. I am far away from my second childhood.  
Title: Re: Fugitive
Post by Death on Apr 3rd, 2007, 5:35am
Also stealing this one from a movie, [hide]he could be firing his gun near a flock of birds that are currently on the ground, to make them them fly up and distract/camouflage himself.[/hide]
Title: Re: Fugitive
Post by tiber13 on Apr 20th, 2007, 6:15pm
He trys to deafen people so they will cover their mears, and steal their WoMD then force them to show him the way home then murder them then create run-on sentenses then...


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