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(Message started by: ssa on May 10^th, 2008, 9:38am)

Title: Suicide
Post by ssa on May 10^th, 2008, 9:38am

A man took a gun out of his pocket and killed himself. But an another man was arrested and put in jail for his death. What happened?

Title: Re: Suicide
Post by cheesepuff on May 10^th, 2008, 12:30pm

you can get arrested for making someone kill himself with depression, threat, torture, etc.

If that's the answer then I think this has been posted again

Title: Re: Suicide
Post by JohanC on May 10^th, 2008, 1:28pm

on 05/10/08 at 12:30:41, cheesepuff wrote:

you can get arrested for making someone kill himself with depression, threat, torture, etc.

Wouldn't a more pictorial answer be: [hide]the arrested man changed a toy gun for a loaded one in a theater play[/hide] ?

Title: Re: Suicide
Post by ssa on May 10^th, 2008, 1:41pm

No to both.

Title: Re: Suicide
Post by Iceman on May 10^th, 2008, 2:02pm

He was in gun duel with the Sundance Kid, which was suicide, really.

Or he was hypnotized.

Or he was Siamese twin. He shot his other head.

Title: Re: Suicide
Post by ssa on May 10^th, 2008, 2:05pm

Nope.

Title: Re: Suicide
Post by gotit on May 10^th, 2008, 11:11pm

[hide]Two men decided to play a game in which each one would try his luck with the gun(with only one bullet) until one of them dies. So one of them takes out his gun, which has only one bullet and goes first. Unfortunately, he is killed in the first shot. The second one was arrested for playing such a dangerous game.[/hide]

Title: Re: Suicide
Post by ssa on May 11^th, 2008, 5:16am

Nope.

Title: Re: Suicide
Post by Iceman on May 11^th, 2008, 5:25am

Because he didn't help him. You can get arrested for not helping somebody. Perhaps he had an electroshock weapon.

Title: Re: Suicide
Post by ssa on May 11^th, 2008, 5:35am

Nope.

He killed himself with a gun, not with a electroshock weapon.

Title: Re: Suicide
Post by Iceman on May 11^th, 2008, 6:08am

An another man was arrested and put in jail for his death. His death sentence had nothing to do with the above suicide.

Title: Re: Suicide
Post by ssa on May 11^th, 2008, 6:16am

Nope. The man who got arrested was put in jail for the death of the guy that commited suicide.

Title: Re: Suicide
Post by Iceman on May 11^th, 2008, 6:52am

He asked for his help, but he refused, so he killed himself because he was desperate.

Or there were his fingerprints on the gun. The guy who committed suicide had gloves. It didn't look like a suicide to the police.

Title: Re: Suicide
Post by ssa on May 11^th, 2008, 8:18am

No to both of your answers.

Title: Re: Suicide
Post by Iceman on May 11^th, 2008, 9:45am

The two of them were struggling, so at one moment he pulled the trigger by mistake or the other guy overpowered him.

Title: Re: Suicide
Post by ssa on May 11^th, 2008, 11:04am

No again. Is it just me or is Iceman the only one guessing?

Title: Re: Suicide
Post by towr on May 11^th, 2008, 11:49am

on 05/11/08 at 11:04:29, ssa wrote:

No again. Is it just me or is Iceman the only one guessing?

Well, there's also cheesepuff, JohanC and gotit. But Iceman definitely has the most guesses.

I could guess something if it'll make you feel better. It will be wrong, of course, but I suppose that doesn't make me worse off than all the others that have guessed wrongly. [hide]The second man used telekinesis or mind-control to make the first shoot himself.[/hide]

Title: Re: Suicide
Post by JohanC on May 11^th, 2008, 1:39pm

Maybe we need a category "Please read my mind"?
In "What happened" one would expect at least a partial acceptance of a good answer, even if it isn't the pre-thought one. Except, of course, if the intended answer is much better...

Anyway, another guess:
[hide]the guilty man threatened to torture and kill the complete family of the other guy unless he killed himself[/hide].

Or, still another one:
[hide]the guilty man poisoned the other guy with a substance leading very slowly to a very certain but very painful dead, giving the other one only the option to kill himself to avoid further suffering[/hide].

Or, while we're at it:
[hide]the guilty man is a very competent hypnotist who convinced the other one to kill himself[/hide].

Title: Re: Suicide
Post by ssa on May 12^th, 2008, 6:23am

All answers are wrong but JohanC is close to the solution with one part of one of his answers.

Title: Re: Suicide
Post by gotit on May 12^th, 2008, 8:48am

[hide]The guilty man gave the victim some chemical that creates suicidal tendencies.[/hide]

OR

[hide]The guilty man had killed the victim's family members which made the victim commit suicide[/hide].

Title: Re: Suicide
Post by Ghost Sniper on May 12^th, 2008, 10:14am

Any sort of [hide]assisted suicide[/hide] would do fine.

Title: Re: Suicide
Post by ssa on May 12^th, 2008, 11:02am

No to all.

Title: Re: Suicide
Post by Iceman on May 12^th, 2008, 11:51am

Was he poisoned?

Or the man was killed by his image in the mirror that came alive. The magical mirror was sentenced to death by hanging. This didn't damage the mirror, but the evil image was gone.

Title: Re: Suicide
Post by ssa on May 12^th, 2008, 11:58am

He wasn't posioned. It seems that this isn't quite easy for you, but I still won't give you any hints.

Title: Re: Suicide
Post by Iceman on May 12^th, 2008, 12:04pm

The man who got arrested was the one who reported the murder to the always suspicious police. He took the weapon from victim's hands, thus there were his fingerprints on the gun. This looked like an undisputed evidence to the judge.

Title: Re: Suicide
Post by ssa on May 12^th, 2008, 12:28pm

Nope.

Title: Re: Suicide
Post by Iceman on May 12^th, 2008, 1:20pm

Were they [hide]playing roulette[/hide]?

Furthermore, were they both in topnotch health before he shot himself?

Title: Re: Suicide
Post by iono on May 12^th, 2008, 9:27pm

the guy who got arrested had the other guy's family member/close friend in hostage, and the first guy had to suicide or else the hostage would have been killed.

Title: Re: Suicide
Post by ssa on May 13^th, 2008, 12:28am

No to both. Their health was ok, it doesn't matter.

Title: Re: Suicide
Post by Grimbal on May 13^th, 2008, 3:07am

There was no witness. The police thought he did it.

or

The second man built the gun which is fixed to fire the bullet backwards. He gave it to the first man. When the first man tried to shoot, he killed himself.

Title: Re: Suicide
Post by Iceman on May 13^th, 2008, 5:24am

on 05/13/08 at 03:07:53, Grimbal wrote:

The second man built the gun which is fixed to fire the bullet backwards.

Always check the tube, eh?

Or there were elections and they needed an escape goat.

Title: Re: Suicide
Post by cheesepuff on May 13^th, 2008, 9:28am

The gun had the arrested guy's fingerprints on it.

Title: Re: Suicide
Post by ssa on May 13^th, 2008, 9:49am

No to all.

Title: Re: Suicide
Post by gotit on May 13^th, 2008, 10:26am

The guy was a magician and the victim was his assistant. They were showing a magic trick with the gun but accidentally the victim was killed.

Title: Re: Suicide
Post by Iceman on May 13^th, 2008, 11:32am

Did the other guy witnessed the suicide?

Title: Re: Suicide
Post by ssa on May 13^th, 2008, 12:19pm

Wrong, gotit.

The other guy didn't witness the suicide but it really isn't important.

Title: Re: Suicide
Post by Iceman on May 13^th, 2008, 2:00pm

Since he didn't witnessed the suicide then he may have used the phone. God knows what he told him on the answering machine. That's how the police found him.

Or the killer had telekinetic abilities.

Or he made his suicide look like murder. He hated himself and the other guy, and so he wanted to nail two birds with one stone.

Or he stumbled on the corpse and took the gun from his hand because he wanted to kill his wife.

Was the arrested man the reason poor fellow killed himself?

Title: Re: Suicide
Post by JiNbOtAk on May 13^th, 2008, 8:32pm

Arrested Guy faked his death, framing Suicide Guy. Suicide Guy was indicted, and is going to spend his time remaining life on death row. Faced with this scary image, Suicide Guy killed himself. Arrested Guy then stepped forward to claim his share of Suicide Guy's wealth ( what do you, he's the next of kin ). Of course he got arrested, and he now occupies the cell meant for Suicide Guy.

Title: Re: Suicide
Post by ssa on May 14^th, 2008, 5:26am

No to all. As I already told you Iceman, witnessing the suicide isn't important.

Title: Re: Suicide
Post by cheesepuff on May 14^th, 2008, 9:55am

He replaced blanks with bullets

Title: Re: Suicide
Post by ssa on May 14^th, 2008, 12:21pm

Nope.

Title: Re: Suicide
Post by lopsidation on May 14^th, 2008, 12:49pm

"A man took a gun out of his pocket and killed himself."
Did he [hideb]kill himself with something other than the gun?[/hideb]

Title: Re: Suicide
Post by Iceman on May 14^th, 2008, 2:21pm

The arrested guy lend him his gun. This is illegal.

Title: Re: Suicide
Post by Grimbal on May 14^th, 2008, 2:44pm

The 2nd man is a policeman who arrested the dead man. He was supposed to have checked that he had no weapon before putting him in jail, where he killed himself.

or

The second man is an airport security officer. The first man boarded the plane with a loaded gun and fired his gun in flight causing the airplane to crash. The second man was arrested for this more than serious security breach.

Title: Re: Suicide
Post by iono on May 14^th, 2008, 6:41pm

the police(and everyone else) thought it was murder, and of course they can't find the killer. they needed someone to blame the murder on so they just arrested the second guy.

Title: Re: Suicide
Post by cheesepuff on May 14^th, 2008, 7:35pm

The arrested guy was watching without stopping him. This is a crime. (is it?)

Title: Re: Suicide
Post by ssa on May 15^th, 2008, 5:05am

No to all!

Title: Re: Suicide
Post by Grimbal on May 15^th, 2008, 5:31am

The first man was the driver of bus carrying tourists. The second man is the owner of the travel company and was arrested after being sued by the passengers because he failed to provide the service he sold.

It seems that just as the tourists, we are going nowhere.

Title: Re: Suicide
Post by ssa on May 15^th, 2008, 6:09am

Nope. And yes it seems you are going nowhere. I'll maybe give a hint later. Like Iceman said, it is better to solve a riddle without hints.

Title: Re: Suicide
Post by gotit on May 16^th, 2008, 12:10am

A suicide note was found on the victim which said that he is commiting suicide because "Mr Culprit" had conviced him to do so.

Title: Re: Suicide
Post by ssa on May 17^th, 2008, 3:02am

Nope.

Title: Re: Suicide
Post by iono on May 19^th, 2008, 7:42pm

Does this have anything to do with any relatives of either people?

Title: Re: Suicide
Post by ssa on May 20^th, 2008, 10:33am

No.

Why isn't anyone guessing?

Title: Re: Suicide
Post by cheesepuff on May 20^th, 2008, 2:12pm

Maybe the arrested guy tried to kill him earlier but didn't succeed, and so he was the prime suspect for the suicide that looks like a murder.

Or the suicidal man gathered evidence that make it look like the arrested man killed him

Title: Re: Suicide
Post by iono on May 20^th, 2008, 7:42pm

What kind of gov't is the guy part of?

Title: Re: Suicide
Post by Sir Col on May 20^th, 2008, 11:54pm

on 05/20/08 at 10:33:55, ssa wrote:

Why isn't anyone guessing?

Am I missing something, but this looks like the third page to me? ???

Anyway, I have a few questions...

Was the arrested man present when the first man shot himself?
Would it have mattered if he was present?
Did anyone else witness the shooting?
Is it relevant who owned the gun?
If "yes", did the gun belong to the first man?
If "no", did it belong to the arrested man?

Title: Re: Suicide
Post by ssa on May 22^nd, 2008, 7:38am

on 05/20/08 at 14:12:49, cheesepuff wrote:

Maybe the arrested guy tried to kill him earlier but didn't succeed, and so he was the prime suspect for the suicide that looks like a murder.

That is correct. The arrested guy stabbed the other guy and he killed himself because he couldn't stand the pain. It was later determined that the dead guy would die because of the stab wounds.