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Patricia Bradley Mystery Question 48 Comments

Just thought I’d tease you a little. 🙂 This is one of three or four buttercups (I know, everyone else calls them daffodils but I’ve always called them buttercups.) growing alongside the road where I walk. Quince is also blooming as is a cherry tree in the area. Spring cannot be far behind!

Now for last week’s Mystery Question:

 For 15 tense minutes, a shop owner stared down a half-dozen wannabe armed robbers in the middle of the afternoon. He told them it was a bad time since he didn’t have any money and to come back later. Three of the following are true, one answer I made up. Which one did I make up?
  1. They left and actually came back at 5:30.
  2. When he told the police, they didn’t believe him, so he had a few of his friends ready with baseball bats and guns and he and his friends captured the would-be robbers when they returned.
  3. He told them it was still too early and to come back in an hour when he would be closed.
  4. The cops didn’t believe the robbers would come back, and the plainclothes detectives they sent weren’t exactly prepared.

And the answer is…#2! I should have left out the part about baseball bats. lol. Congrats to all who guessed correctly.

Now for this week’s Mystery Question: Below are four blotter reports. I made up one and the rest are true. Can you guess which one I made up? Leave your answers in the comments section and I’ll enter you in a drawing for a book from my library and I have some really good authors there!
  1. Police arrested a woman for DUI because she registered .26% on a Breathalyzer test. She’d been drinking vanilla extract.
  2. When police charged a man with drunken driving, his excuse for drinking too much was because his favorite football team was lousy.
  3.  Police arrested a woman riding a horse down a busy Florida highway and charged her with driving drunk.
  4. Mississippi Highway Patrol pulled over a man because it appeared he was allowing his dog to sit in his lap and drive his pickup. He was arrested after he tested .30% on the Breathalyzer.

Okay, Super Sleuths, which blotter report did I make up? Leave your answer in the comments!

Oh, here’s a bonus–the quince that’s blooming around here.


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  1. Edward Arrington

    I think they are all true. Maybe they just haven’t all made the news. Since you said you made up one, I’ll pick #3. Even if it’s true, how would they make a drunk driving charge stick if she was on horseback? I can’t quite figure that one out.

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  2. Sue Parrish

    It looks like most people believe the one about the vanilla extract. I used to work with a guy that got drunk on Aqua Velva Shaving Lotion. I pick #3 because I don’t think the cops can ticket someone for riding a horse drunk since its not technically driving in my mind. I’m sure cops have heard all the excuses in the book. What cracks me up is that the drunks think they are sounding reasonable and logical.

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