From the Blotter

Patricia Bradley Mystery Question 44 Comments

This week I signed books at Barnes and Noble near Memphis and had a ball. It was great connecting with readers, most who had never heard of me. 🙂 Great way to stay humble!

But I almost sold out of books and that’s a good thing. And Norma, in the photo, bought two books!

Now on to last week’s Mystery Question:

Below are four scenarios. Three are true. One is false. Which one did I make up?
  1. It was February, and a couple in the middle of a divorce were walking along the bank of a river, quarreling. Unable to win his point, the frustrated man suddenly shoved the woman into the icy river, jumping in to push her under again and again! The only problem? He couldn’t swim and his wife could. She swam to safety while he sank…he died on February 14.
  2. Two men had spent the day on the river bank fishing and guzzling beer. As they trecked back to their truck with their meager catch, they had to cross a pasture with a long-horned bull in it. One man dared the other to slap the bull on his rump. When he refused, words ensued regarding his character and then a fight broke out, catching the attention of the bull. The men were so intent on their fight they failed to see the bull charging until he’d hooked one of them… on his rump.
  3. A young couple set out to prove that evil is a make-believe concept the human race invented. They set out on a bike ride to prove their new worldview. Sadly, after a year of biking, they were killed by ISIS militants.
  4. A helpful neighbor spent his last moments helping a friend weld an exhaust pipe  He arrived at the garage shed with an experimental welding kit: an LPG bottle, similar to a propane tank, in which he had mixed both components that make up oxy-acetylene welding gas: acetylene and oxygen. When combined, these two components burn hot enough to cut metal. They are separated for a reason. When the neighbor attacked a torch head straight onto the bottle and lit the welding tip…the explosion shattered windows blocks away.

And the answer is #2! Congrats to everyone who guessed correctly!

Now for this week’s Mystery Question. These are from various police blotter reports. As usual, three are true, one I made up. It’s your task to figure out which one. 🙂
  1. Hotel employees called police regarding an unwanted guest. Officers found him in the elevator, nude. He said he thought it was a shower. Camera footage showed the man entering the elevator fully clothed, but he soon began disrobing.
  2.  A woman was displeased with the way her housekeeper put her towels away, so she called her local police and requested a deputy to come and talk to her.
  3. A farmer called police at midnight after his rooster backed a teenaged boy into a corner in his hen house. It turned out he’d been dared to sneak into the hen house and steal a chicken. He hadn’t counted on the guard rooster.
  4. During a disturbance call, a man gave officers a false name and was arrested after he was found to have warrants for both names.

Leave your answers in the comments section and I’ll enter you in a drawing for a book from my library at the end of the month!

And…Justice Delayed has fallen to second place in the  Interviews and Reviews Book of the Month contest. I would really appreciate it if you’d hop over and vote for it! You can vote here.

Thank you to all who have voted! And Thank You to all who vote now!


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Comments 44

  1. Jan Ballard

    I’m thinking possibly No 1 is false. I mean, how many showers go up and down? (Also, I love it when I see your post and know we were both up in the middle of the night. Kind of “bonding”.)

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  2. Stephanie H.

    These all sound like possible true stories, but #3 sounds a little more less true than the rest.

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  3. Tim Johnson

    This is a tough one. Given human nature, and how dumb people sometimes act, any of them could be true. I’m going with #3.

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  4. Edward Arrington

    I’m sticking with #3 again this week. I’m not a farm boy so I know nothing of the habits of roosters. The only thing I can say is that I’ve heard so much about foxes in the henhouse and never any mention of a guard rooster.

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  5. MS Barb

    hmmmm….they all sound true! So, I’ll guess #4, but I hope #1 IS false!
    hmmm…They all seem possible, so I’m going to guess #4, but I am hoping #1 is False!

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  6. Colleen H.

    I really want to say #2, but I could believe that would happen, so I’m going to go with #1.

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  7. Trixi

    None of these surprise me because they all could be true…lol! So for this week, I went with a random number generator and it picked #2 as the false one. But I can tots imagine the woman calling the police on the housekeeper. Crazy things happen all the time!

    I also totally missed last weeks question, no idea how I did that. 🙂 As for voting, I’ve been doing that every day now in hopes of raising your book up to first place. Sadly, it’s fallen down a ways. If it weren’t for “Plan B”, you’d have it made! I’m still going to vote everyday though and won’t give up.

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