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(Message started by: Iceman on Aug 30th, 2007, 11:51am)
Title: Status quo    
Post by Iceman on Aug 30th, 2007, 11:51am
                                 

A man hits a woman on the head with the head of a hammer, causing a bruise, but a few of the righteous representatives of the law enforcement, whose presence is necessary, witnessed it, but didn't react. Why?
Title: Re: Status quo    
Post by towr on Aug 30th, 2007, 12:14pm
The police officer was paralyzed by the toxin from badly prepared fugu he ate?
Title: Re: Status quo    
Post by gotit on Aug 30th, 2007, 12:28pm
There are many possible explanations:

i) The policeman was watching some kind of live show where the woman was demonstrating her power.
                                     OR
ii)The man was himself a policeman and the woman was a criminal.
                                      OR
iii)The man and the righteous policeman were the same person.
                                      OR
iv)The policeman was watching a movie.
Title: Re: Status quo    
Post by Iceman on Aug 30th, 2007, 12:44pm
The policemen were in topnotch health. Usually men demonstrate their power. She wasn't a criminal. No TV.
Title: Re: Status quo    
Post by gotit on Aug 30th, 2007, 2:41pm
Was the man a policeman?Was the woman unconscious?
Title: Re: Status quo    
Post by gotit on Aug 30th, 2007, 3:00pm
Was the man a policeman?Was the woman unconscious?
Title: Re: Status quo    
Post by Grimbal on Aug 30th, 2007, 3:12pm
Autopsy?

The woman was the policeman's step-mom?

It's carnaval, and the hammer is one of these huge plastic hammers that beep when you hit someone.  Anyway, the policeman is not a real policeman.  Just a disguise.  (As it happens, in real life he is a policeman, which in fact helped a lot to find a convincing uniform.  But in that particular moment, he is just disguised as a policeman.)
Title: Re: Status quo    
Post by Iceman on Aug 30th, 2007, 3:16pm
No. And isn't that kind of autopsy a bit unorthodox?
Title: Re: Status quo    
Post by Iceman on Aug 30th, 2007, 3:17pm
No plastic either.
Title: Re: Status quo    
Post by mikedagr8 on Aug 30th, 2007, 3:19pm
She was wearing a hard hat, which they started testing on at a construction site. It was a necessary precaution because they needed to know the limit of which the hat would break.
Title: Re: Status quo    
Post by Iceman on Aug 30th, 2007, 3:34pm
Again, pretty woman is a really good choice. No, I had something else in mind..
Title: Re: Status quo    
Post by Sameer on Aug 30th, 2007, 10:39pm
The man was a surgeon and he was cracking her skull to perform brain surgery?
Title: Re: Status quo    
Post by ima1trkpny on Aug 30th, 2007, 10:45pm

on 08/30/07 at 22:39:41, Sameer wrote:
The man was a surgeon and he was cracking her skull to perform brain surgery?

Ouch!  :o I guess that's one way to knock out a patient...  ::)
Title: Re: Status quo    
Post by Grimbal on Aug 31st, 2007, 1:23am
The policemen don't do anything because they are scared to be next.  They pretend to see nothing.

Or: They are watching them on a video survillance tape after a burglary.

Or: The woman is dead and offered her body for experimentation.  The man is a forensic expert trying to assess the force needed to break a human skull with a hammer.  This is because they are investigating such a murder case.
Title: Re: Status quo    
Post by gotit on Aug 31st, 2007, 3:49am
Icey,you didn't amswer my question yet.

Was the woman unconscious?Or rather dead?
If yes,then I'll go with Grimbal's solution of the forensic test.
Title: Re: Status quo    
Post by Iceman on Aug 31st, 2007, 5:35am

on 08/31/07 at 01:23:15, Grimbal wrote:
The policemen don't do anything because they are scared to be next.  They pretend to see nothing.  

These policemen don't get scared. They are from Alabama.



on 08/31/07 at 03:49:50, gotit wrote:
Was the woman unconscious?Or rather dead?

No.



No satisfying answer yet.
Title: Re: Status quo    
Post by Grimbal on Aug 31st, 2007, 5:42am

on 08/31/07 at 05:35:38, Iceman wrote:
These policemen don't get scared. They are from Alabama.

You don't mean the woman is black, and that explains everything, do you?
Title: Re: Status quo    
Post by Iceman on Aug 31st, 2007, 5:59am

It doesn't look righteous to me. ;)
Title: Re: Status quo    
Post by Grimbal on Aug 31st, 2007, 6:04am
The policemen have been trying to nail her for a long time?
Title: Re: Status quo    
Post by Whiskey Tango Foxtrot on Aug 31st, 2007, 7:22am
He was carving the woman out of marble.
Title: Re: Status quo    
Post by Iceman on Aug 31st, 2007, 11:22am

on 08/31/07 at 06:04:48, Grimbal wrote:
The policemen have been trying to nail her for a long time?

No. They are on the same side.  ;)


on 08/31/07 at 07:22:38, Whiskey Tango Foxtrot wrote:
He was carving the woman out of marble.

Nope.
Title: Re: Status quo    
Post by gotit on Aug 31st, 2007, 11:56am
If a man hits a woman with a hammer,it is quite unlikely that the woman will suffer only a bruise,unless the man had hit her by accident and the hammer did not hit her hard.So,I think that the policemen didn't react because it was an accident.
Title: Re: Status quo    
Post by Iceman on Aug 31st, 2007, 12:40pm

on 08/31/07 at 11:56:05, gotit wrote:
If a man hits a woman with a hammer,it is quite unlikely that the woman will suffer only a bruise,unless the man had hit her by accident and the hammer did not hit her hard.So,I think that the policemen didn't react because it was an accident.

You think [hide]correctly.8) Yes, it was an accident, and now we just need the location, that is, where did it happen. So think about the man and the woman, something about them, who are they..
[/hide]  
Title: Re: Status quo    
Post by gotit on Aug 31st, 2007, 1:31pm
It might be that they were at a house that was the location of some crime.The man was also a policeman and he was on top of a ladder trying to break somthing on top of the wall.The hammer fell from his hand and hit the woman.The woman could either be a policewoman or the owner of the house.
Title: Re: Status quo    
Post by Iceman on Aug 31st, 2007, 2:55pm
Nope. Wrong house.
Title: Re: Status quo    
Post by gotit on Aug 31st, 2007, 3:30pm
Was the man a policeman?
When the woman was hit by the hammer,was she standing face to face with the man?
Title: Re: Status quo    
Post by Grimbal on Sep 1st, 2007, 5:34am
The woman is a statue.  The policemen suspect it is used for smuggling drugs.
Title: Re: Status quo    
Post by Iceman on Sep 1st, 2007, 7:38am

on 08/31/07 at 15:30:06, gotit wrote:
Was the man a policeman?

No, [hide]but you are close.  ;)[/hide]
Title: Re: Status quo    
Post by Grimbal on Sep 1st, 2007, 3:04pm
The man was a policewoman that was hitting her own head?

Or is the man a forensic expert?
Title: Re: Status quo    
Post by Iceman on Sep 2nd, 2007, 5:29am
No.
Title: Re: Status quo    
Post by Grimbal on Sep 2nd, 2007, 3:28pm
- Sir, your wife's mother hit me with a hammer this morning, causing a bruise.  I am requesting for compensation.
- Please meet my wife's mother at the police station where you will be allowed to hit her on the head with a hammer in return.
Title: Re: Status quo    
Post by Iceman on Sep 3rd, 2007, 7:00am
..........nothing like that. Btw, I modified the riddle a bit because of your fine ideas, 8)so just read it again.   ;)
Title: Re: Status quo    
Post by Roy on Sep 3rd, 2007, 2:24pm
When i first read it (today) i immediatly thought that it might be an[hide] accident[/hide], or that [hide]the hammer might not be metal[/hide], something like [hide]an inflatable hammer[/hide], or [hide]a child's plastic hammer[/hide]

As for location, if it was [hide]a metal hammer[/hide], id go with [hide]construction site:perhaps the hammer was dropped by accident from high up? [/hide]Or, [hide]it was from the simpsons/movie cutting room floor and homer claims to accidentally hit patty or celma over the head in front of cheif wiggum, who is gullible enough to beleive it.[/hide]
Title: Re: Status quo    
Post by Iceman on Sep 3rd, 2007, 2:28pm

on 09/03/07 at 14:24:58, Roy wrote:
Or, [hide]it was from the simpsons/movie cutting room floor and homer claims to accidentally hit patty or celma over the head in front of cheif wiggum, who is gullible enough to beleive it.[/hide]

I don't get this, but I don't think so.
Title: Re: Status quo    
Post by Roy on Sep 3rd, 2007, 2:28pm
Was it supposed to be presence, not presents? ;)
Title: Re: Status quo    
Post by gotit on Sep 3rd, 2007, 2:38pm
Can the hammer be associated with the man's profession(plumber or carpenter)?
Title: Re: Status quo    
Post by Sameer on Sep 3rd, 2007, 3:02pm
The woman was already dead and frozen in the lake. They needed to get someone to break the ice to do post-morterm.
Title: Re: Status quo    
Post by Roy on Sep 3rd, 2007, 10:23pm
well it certainly sounds status quo for iceman ;)
Title: Re: Status quo    
Post by Iceman on Sep 4th, 2007, 6:39am
I changed the riddle again, that is, I corrected it, so now it is, finally, fine. Sorry for the inconvenience.



on 09/03/07 at 14:28:16, Roy wrote:
Was it supposed to be presence, not presents? ;)

Yes.  :-[


on 09/03/07 at 14:38:39, gotit wrote:
Can the hammer be associated with the man's profession

Now you're thinking.



on 09/03/07 at 15:02:54, Sameer wrote:
The woman was already dead and frozen in the lake. They needed to get someone to break the ice to do post-morterm.

I like this answer, but she wasn't dead.

Title: Re: Status quo    
Post by denis on Sep 4th, 2007, 7:39am

on 08/31/07 at 14:55:28, Iceman wrote:
Nope. Wrong house.


Maybe the courthouse? The detective or prosecuter is doing a demonstration on how the murder occured in front of the courtroom using a volunteer as the victim and the hammer as the murder weapon. When showing how the murdered wielded  the hammer, it kind of slipped and hit the volunteer in the head.
Title: Re: Status quo    
Post by denis on Sep 4th, 2007, 10:30am
Also in the courthouse: the judge drops the gavel by mistake on the lawyer's head.
Title: Re: Status quo    
Post by Iceman on Sep 4th, 2007, 12:15pm

on 09/04/07 at 07:39:37, denis wrote:
Maybe the courthouse?

Yep.




on 09/04/07 at 10:30:25, denis wrote:
Also in the courthouse: the judge drops the gavel by mistake on the lawyer's head.

Close 8)enough. Yes, it was noisy in the courthouse and the head of the gavel broke off, and accidentally hit woman typist, or whatever is her name.    
Title: Re: Status quo    
Post by ima1trkpny on Sep 4th, 2007, 6:27pm

on 09/04/07 at 12:15:41, Iceman wrote:
Close 8)enough. Yes, it was noisy in the courthouse and the head of the gavel broke off, and accidentally hit woman typist, or whatever is her name.    

Did you mean Stenographer?  :P
Title: Re: Status quo    
Post by mikedagr8 on Sep 5th, 2007, 4:37am
Guess who got the correct answer again for one of Icey's riddles...
Title: Re: Status quo    
Post by Iceman on Sep 5th, 2007, 5:51am

on 09/04/07 at 18:27:47, ima1trkpny wrote:
Did you mean Stenographer?  :P

Yes.
Title: Re: Status quo    
Post by denis on Sep 5th, 2007, 6:54am

on 09/05/07 at 04:37:57, mikedagr8 wrote:
Guess who got the correct answer again for one of Icey's riddles...


Well lets see (just looking in the What happened section), I got 3 out the last of 9 (Cassandra, Coffee and this one) that Icey put up... I didnt count "Ice"since that was an old one from july that CowsrUs bumbed up. Hardly what I would call a monopoly although its true most of the ones I get are put up by Icey.
Title: Re: Status quo    
Post by mikedagr8 on Sep 5th, 2007, 2:50pm
(just looking in the What happened section)[quote][/quote]

That is probably why it isn't the monopoly you think...


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