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Back to Stupid Criminals 9 ~ Mystery Question

Patricia Bradley Mystery Question 43 Comments

Back to Stupid Criminals 9 is this week’s Mystery Question. I think most of you will be surprised by the answer to last week’s Mystery Question. 😉

But first the photo and verse. This is another photo my daughter, Carole, took of the Harvest Moon in South Florida. I love the mysterious air it has! And the verse is one I read this past week in my Bible reading.

Now onto last week’s Mystery Question. Four crazy crimes, three that are true and one I made up. Can you guess the made-up one?
  1. A teenager was doing a little underage drinking when a police officer took her aside and asked to see her ID. She challenged him to a game of “rock, paper, scissors” to win her freedom. When she ended up with rock to the officer’s scissors, the crowd that had gathered around them cheered and he let her go. He didn’t get off so easily–he and the other two officers with him were relieved of duty.
  2. A man’s expensive gun collection was stolen along with a German shepherd dog he purchased to guard it.
  3. A bank robber and his companions subdued a bank manager and employees in the UK and walked out with over sixty million pounds. The robbers would have gotten away with it if the leader had not returned to retrieve his Ferrari.
  4. What happens when you put a redneck, a gun, and an armadillo together? The redneck’s mother-in-law gets shot when the redneck shoots the armadillo. The bullet ricochets off the animal and into the m-i-l’s mobile home and hits the m-i-l in the back. Fortunately, she survived.

And the answer is…#2. I almost can’t believe #4…but according to a news report, it’s true!

Now on to this week’s Mystery Question. Insurance fraud drains more than $50 BILLION from insurers each year, adding anywhere from $400 to $700 a year in increased premiums. Here are four frauds. Three actually happened. I made up one. Can you guess which one?
  1. Two men used a pole saw (a saw attached to a pole that is used to saw off tree limbs) to cut off a third man’s hand in order to collect over $600,000.
  2. Four women invented a man, faked his death and staged a funeral so they could collect over a million dollars. When the insurance companies involved began their investigation, they dug the body up and put a mannequin and cow parts in the casket and then sent the casket to the crematory. They then filed paperwork stating the man had been cremated and his ashes scattered over the Pacific Ocean.
  3. An elderly woman ran out of funds for her gambling addiction and staged forty-nine slip-and-fall scams, collecting over $500,000 before she was outed.
  4. When a man’s ceiling cracked, he knew his homeowner’s insurance wouldn’t pay for the repair, so he waited for a rainstorm, climbed up into his attic, and poured out a gallon of water above the ceiling. Unfortunately, the adjuster climbed up on the roof that the insurance company had replaced just a year earlier and couldn’t find any place where the roof could have leaked.

Okay, Super Sleuths, which one did I make up? Leave your answers in the comments, and I’ll enter you in a drawing for something…

September’s winner is…Priscilla! Congratulations!

Now for a blast from the past! This week it’s Obsession, the fourth book in the Natchez Trace Park Rangers series. I think last week I mistakenly wrote Crosshairs in the blurb. But I caught it when writing this post. lol  If you ever get a chance, visit Natchez. It’s a beautiful town in Southwest Mississippi and is the terminus of the Natchez Trace.

Obsession by Patricia BradleyNatchez Trace Ranger and historian Emma Winters hoped never to see Sam Ryker again after she broke off her engagement to him. But when shots are fired at her at a historical landmark just off the Natchez Trace, she’s forced to work alongside Sam as the Natchez Trace law enforcement district ranger in the ensuing investigation. To complicate matters, Emma has acquired a delusional secret admirer who is determined to have her as his own. Sam is merely an obstruction, one which must be removed.

Sam knows that he has failed Emma in the past and he doesn’t intend to let her down again. Especially since her life is on the line. As the threads of the investigation cross and tangle with their own personal history, Sam and Emma have a chance to discover the truth, not only about the victim but about what went wrong in their relationship.

Now for Tuesday’s song. I’ve always enjoyed this song and the harmony on this one is amazing.

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Comments 43

  1. Charlotte S

    I love the photo, verse, and the song as always!!! I’m terrible at theses. They are all ridiculously unbelievable, but I am guessing 1.

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  5. Priscilla Bettis

    Beautiful moon picture and verse! Oo, I won, woohoo! Thanks! Okay, this week I’m going with #2 because I think the crematory would notice a mannequin and cow parts vs a real body.

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  9. Barbara Diggs

    Congratulations, Priscilla!

    Carole got a great shot of the moon, and it looks like ocean waves behind it. Wow!

    These criminals!!!!!???? Going with #2

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  10. tajkkj6ddb417dfa

    Nice photo and verse. When I took out the trash very early this morning, I was treated to a near occultation of Jupiter by a crescent moon. Tucson was just outside the western edge of the occultation. The sky was beautiful!

    Congratulations, Priscilla!

    Crazy insurance fraud cases:
    #1: Who would do that?
    #2: Bet the crematorium folks were surprised.
    #3: That’s a lot of slip and falls for one person!
    #4: Hard not to spot fraud with this one.
    Sometimes the most improbable are the true ones. That said, I’m placing my guess on #4 as the one you made up, Pat.

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  16. Gail Hollingsworth

    I think that photo would make a great book cover, especially for someone like Jaime Jo Wright who writes really great suspense. I thought the song was maybe The River by Jordan Felix, which my granddaughter clued me into. They are both good by the way!
    I couldn’t make any sense of #2 but decided on #1 anyway. Who would willingly have their hand cut off for money?? I recently faced a possible right leg amputation but through a miracle from God it didn’t come to pass. But I’m still faced with a lifetime of no weight on that leg.

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      Patricia Bradley

      I’m so glad you didn’t lose your leg, Gail! And thank you for thinking my photo would make a good cover. Hmmm…it might work on my book, Revenge! We’ll see if it’s #1 next week…

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  17. Edward Arrington

    Love the picture! Great verse for it. I think that may be the best rendition I have heard of that song.

    I think you made up #4. I think it would have to be a fairly good sized hole for someone to find on top of the roof. Most people I have known have gone into the attic to find where a roof is leaking. Even then, it can be difficult to find unless there is a hole. We discovered a damp spot on our bedroom ceiling years ago. When I went into the attic, the sunlight was actually shining through a nail hole in the roof where a shingle nail came out.

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