Saturday I helped a neighbor and as I walked back to my house, I dropped my phone. Flat. Facedown. Now, I’ve dropped my phone hundreds of time, but for some reason this time the screen shattered. And I know why.
No good deed goes unpunished!
So now I have a new, larger phone. Maybe my fingers won’t hit the wrong keys so often. 🙂
Now for last week’s Mystery Question: Three of the following police blotter reports are true. I made one up. Which one did I make up?
- A man reported someone had used his password and hacked into his Farmville account and that he had lost a year’s worth of work and all his crops.
- A woman said her son was attacked by a cat, and the cat would not allow her to take her son to the hospital.
- A would-be thief caught crawling in a window turned out to be a husband who’d had an argument with his wife and claimed she’d locked him out. The wife told police she’d never seen the man and they took him to jail.
- A caller reported at 7:14 that someone was yelling “help” from a residence on Bank Street. Officers responded and learned the person was calling a cat named “Help”.
And the answer is…#3. I’d love to see that cat that wouldn’t let the mother take the kid to the doctor! Congrats to everyone who got the answer I made up!
Now for this week’s Mystery Question: A man wrote a suicide note and jumped off a building, not knowing that a safety net had been stretched out on the eighth floor. When he passed by an apartment on the 9th floor, he was hit accidentally by a shotgun blast and instantly died. Three of the following are true. I made up one of them. Can you tell which one?
- The man’s death was an accident because the man who fired the shotgun didn’t know it was loaded.
- The man in the apartment who fired the shotgun was his father, who had a long standing habit of threatening his wife with the unloaded gun.
- The father knew his son intended to commit suicide and intentionally shot him on the way down and planned to claim it was an accident because the son’s $50,000 insurance policy didn’t pay in the event of suicide.
- The man’s death was ruled a suicide because even though there was a safety net that would have prevented his death, it couldn’t be homicide because the son had been the one who loaded the shotgun, hoping his mother would be killed during the next argument.
Okay Super Sleuths, which is the answer I made up? Leave your answer in the comments and I’ll enter your name in a drawing for Justice Betrayed or if you already have a copy, you can choose a book from my library.
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#3
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Linda, do I see a trend? We’ll see next week if it’s #3. Thanks for dropping by!
#3
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Hi Kailey! Another one for #3. hmmm. We’ll see. Thanks for dropping by!
#4
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Hi Lisa! Oh, good a different guess. lol We’ll see next week. Thanks for dropping by!
#1 because 1&4 are mutually exclusive. And the others have a lot of detail.
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Hi, Paula! Hmmm. I didn’t actually say the ME ruled it an accident…just that the man didn’t mean to shoot him…or am I tossing in a red herring? We’ll see next week. Thanks for dropping by!
#3. The other statements seem to fit together.
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Oh, Christine, I like the way you puzzle things out. We’ll see if your puzzle pieces fit next week. Thanks for dropping by!
How complicated is this? I think you made up #3 because in terms of marksmanship and timing, it would be too absolutely difficult to hit the victim at just the right moment. Love these!
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We’ll see, Delores, we’ll see. Thanks for stopping by! Glad you’re enjoying them!
I think it’s #3.
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Hi Mary! That’s another one in the #3 column. Maybe, and maybe not. 😉 We’ll see next week, which of course is a longer wait because I misfigured the date. Thanks for dropping by!
I have to go with #3 again. It worked last week so I’ll see if it works again. Actually it all sounds like the figment of someone’s imagination.
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Hi Edward! Yes, it doesn’t seem like a figment of someone’s imagination…just wait until you hear the whole story! Thanks for dropping by!,
#3
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Three is certainly trending, Susanne! We’ll see next Tuesday. Thanks for dropping by!
#3
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Another one for #3! This was such an amazing story, I think everyone will be surprised by the ending, Lucy. Thanks for dropping by!
I’m going against the wisdom of the crowd & choosing # 2 because stranger things than this happen every single day in Mississippi!
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You have that right, Lisa! 🙂 Thanks so much for stopping by.
I’m going with # 4
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Hi Marilyn and welcome to my blog! We’ll see next week if it’s #4. 🙂 Thanks for dropping by.
I’ll go with #3
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Another vote for #3, Jackie. We’ll see next week. Thanks for stopping by.
#4
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Good, a vote for #4! Yay, Tayler. Thanks for stopping in.
#3
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MS Barb, we’ll see if the majority is correct this week next week. 😉 Thanks for stopping by.
#1, because 1 or 4 has to be made up as they rule each other out!
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Hmmm, see my earlier answer, Charlotte. 🙂 Thanks so much for stopping by.
#4 this week.
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We’ll see, Gloria. Thanks for dropping by.
Tough one, but I’m picking #1!
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Glad you thought these were tough, Victoria! Thanks for stopping by.
I’ll go with 4.
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We’ll see, Mindy. This was a really interesting story! Thanks for stopping by.
These are all terrible scenarios! Suicide, wanting to shoot a spouse…yikes! And all but one are true too…there are some diabolical minds out there. :-/ Anyway, I’m choosing #1 for this week…that’s the least of the 4 evils, lol!
I totally missed last week and have no idea how that happened! Sorry about your phone Patricia, it’s a pain setting up a new one. I hope you were able to retrieve your important things off of it. As always, fun questions to guess the answer to! 🙂
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Trixi, I’m with you about diabolical minds! And I had my phone backed up to the “cloud” so it was a very seamless process, thank goodness! Thanks for dropping by.
#3
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Oh, goodness, another one for # 3, Jeanna. Thanks for stopping by.
These are tough! After much deliberation, I say #1.
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We’ll see, Jessica! I think I may have misled readers about #1…not that I’m saying you’re wrong, but only that an accident was the ME’s first consideration…We’ll see Tuesday…if I don’t get the date wrong again. lol Thanks for dropping by!
we were about to miss out on Columbus day this 🙂
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I’m going with #4.
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We’ll see, Perrianne! So glad I have a range of guesses. Funny no one thinks it’s #2. 😉 Just sayin’! lol
#2
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Aha! A vote for #2! Yay! Thanks, Caryl. 😉 We’ll see next Tuesday if that’s correct.