More Crimes Gone Awry is this week’s Mystery Question because I had so much fun last week researching these crimes! And they made some of you laugh.
But first the photo and scripture. Since it’s so hot here, I thought I’d remind everyone, myself included, of what winter is like! That and I really love this verse from Isaiah. It tells me that God’s got this. No matter what it is.
Now for last week’s question Crimes Gone Awry. As usual, three are true, one is made up. Can you guess the false one?
- Two men forced their way into a woman’s house at gunpoint, put a hood over her head, and handcuffed her and her neighbor. They left the neighbor behind and sped off with the woman in a van. When deputies noticed the van swerving, they tried to pull it over. The men pulled off the interstate onto a dead-end road and tried to escape by swimming a canal. Unfortunately, both drowned.
- A man called a cab and once it arrived, he asked the driver to wait a few minutes since he’d forgotten something in the bank he’d just left. He returned with a bag, jumped into the cab, and gave the driver an address. About that time, the dye bomb exploded, covering him and the inside of the cab in red paint. The cabbie abandoned the cab and called police.
- While being pursued by squad cars and a bank robber pulled into a convenience store and ran inside and threw $20 on the counter for a pack of cigarettes. Then he ran out and drove off with the police on his tail. He was caught shortly after with the pack of cigarettes still unopened.
- Police were demonstrating their equipment to local children on a Detroit street, and a man became curious. He handed them his driver’s license for use in a demonstration of a field background check. When the police ran his information, they found he had a warrant out for his arrest for his involvement in a 1986 armed robbery in St. Louis.
And the answer is…#2. 🙂 Thanks everyone for responding and congrats to the ones who guessed #2!
Now for More Crimes Gone Awry–this week’s Mystery Question. As usual, three are true, one is made up. Can you guess the false one?
- A burglar scoured through a home and managed to come up with some jewelry. Most burglars, once they’ve scored, usually leave the scene of the crime, but this one sat down on the sofa and promptly fell asleep. This was handy for police who were called by the homeowner when he returned home.
- An assassin picked up the proposed murder weapon, an umbrella rigged to distribute poison through a spike in the tip. The man who gave it to him accidentally tested it out on himself as he demonstrated it. He survived, but the bad luck continued–the assassin’s target no longer lived in the area. The plot was abandoned and the umbrella was thrown into the Thames.
- A man who went missing in 1985 turned up in the chimney of a gift shop in Natchez, Miss., during renovations 15 years later. His corpse was found by masons, and he was identified by a wallet found near him. Since the missing man had a prior history of burglary, investigators concluded that he had become caught in the chimney as he tried to crawl into the gift shop to rob it.
- In Tennessee, a man scored a bag of marijuana and promptly rolled a joint and smoked it, then another before he decided he wasn’t getting high enough. That’s when he called police to get them to arrest the men who’d sold him the marijuana. After he showed his purchase to the officers, they promptly arrested him for possession of more than a half-pound of the drug.
Okay, Super Sleuths, which one did I make up? Leave your answers in the comments and I’ll enter you in an August drawing for a book from my library!
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I think you made up number 4 because . . . okay, here’s my thinking: It sounds the most realistic to me, so I’m using reverse psychology and saying it’s the one that’s actually made up!
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Hi Priscilla! We’ll see. I like the idea of reverse psychology…will have to try it next week. lol Thanks for stopping by.
#4
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Mary, #4 seems to be the favorite so far…we’ll see next week. Glad you stopped by!
I’m going with #2. It seems someone should have smelled something at some point.
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Hi Ellen…we’ll see if it’s #2 next week. 😉 Thanks for dropping by and commenting.
#3 not #2!! Sorry!!
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Noting your change… 😉 These are fun!
They’re all unbelievable, but I’ll go with #2. I love the scripture.
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Thanks, Kay. The photo reminds me that this heat, too, shall pass! Not that I’m complaining!! So glad you stopped by.
These are great, hard to choose. I’ll go w/ #1 this time.
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We’ll see, Delores, we’ll see. Glad you found them hard!
Ah, snow. Thanks for that thought, Pat. That’s a great photo, and good choice of verse to go with it.
Those are all so crazy. I’m thinking you made up #4. I seem to remember reading about a similar thing where the police were advertising they would check drug quality as a part of a sting. I think you might have been thinking of that and made up a similar scenario.
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Hi Tim. Glad you liked my snow photo. Do y’all get much snow where you live? And we’ll see next week if it’s the favorite, #4.
Since winter is our other rainy season in Tucson, yes but not often. Last winter we had a good layer here in the valley, and that is unusual; about 3 inches as I recall. It melted within a few hours. What is more common is to see snow on the mountains around Tucson. Mt. Lemmon to the north tops out at 9,159 ft. There is even a ski lift there.
I’m going with number 4.
As always your photo and scripture are perfect together.
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Thanks, Terri! And we’ll see next week if it’s #4. 😉 Good to ‘see’ you here.
I’m going to go with #4. That reaction would be in keeping with a guy who had already clouded his common sense.
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Hi, Rick! I like your reasoning. We’ll see next week if it proves true. 😉
I’m with you on #4, Rick. I just bought “The Methuselah Project” for the Nook, and will start reading it today. I love that kind of story.
Tim, thanks for letting me know. Always fun to hear. If you enjoy it, let me mention that the sequel ramps up the action and is earning even higher ratings than the original. Blessings to you!
Oops. That really was me, not Anonymous. I hit Submit too fast!
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I can promise you’ll like both books, Tim! And Rick, when’s the next one coming out???
Thanks for the positive words, Patricia! Actually, my next book is a departure from suspense for the sake of my young adult readers. Sept. 14 will be the release of a Christian sci-fi novel, The Next Fithian. It’s based on a short story I once wrote on commission for Focus on the Family. Since you ask, excuse me if I share a blog post about it. 🙂 https://rickcbarry.com/2021/07/27/the-next-fithian-the-story-behind-the-story/
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Got it pre-ordered, Rick. Sounds fascinating and exciting! And I love that you’re writing something for teens that will uplift!
I am going with #3 this week. Cooler weather would be nice.
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Hi, Gloria. I agree that cooler would be better about now…last week it was 87° and this week the heat index is 110°! But I’m really not complaining. Cold weather hurts me…
Thanks for the snowy picture. It’s going to be very hot today.
I’ll go with #4 today. They are all quizzical!
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I’m enjoying a peek at the snowy photo about every hour, too, Paula! It does make me feel cooler. lol. We’ll see if it’s the very popular #4 next week!
I think I’ll go with #4. Love the picture and the verse. I still have some from our last winter in MN. I look at them at times and am grateful to be living in Florida
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I don’t blame you, Betti! About being grateful to be living in Florida. That was the first real snow we’d gotten in probably 10 years. And I can live with that. lol We’ll see next week if it’s #4. Glad you stpped by.
I think you made up #3. It sounds like a plot for an NCIS episode a few years back.
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Hi Jeanna! We’ll see next week if I borrowed from NCIS… 🙂 Thanks for stopping by and commenting!
I’ll say #2 Beautiful photo and scripture.
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Thanks, Lucy–glad you liked the photo and verse. We’ll see next week if it’s #2. 🙂
#2? It’s so hard to choose which one I think is the fake report. I think I might have read a similar account to the burglars corpse that was discovered in the chimney years later. What a way to die, huh?
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I’m so glad it’s hard to choose! I’d hate to be a burglar caught in a chimney…so glad you stopped by~
I say #2. These are so fun, and it’s hard to tell the fake from from real.
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Megan, if you think they’re fun, I’ve done my job. lol Thanks for stopping by.
#2
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We’ll see, Alicia. Glad you stopped by!
4. thanks for the chance
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I’ll put you in the #4 column, Lynn! So glad you stopped by.
I will chose #4 since it is so dumb, it is almost unbelievable
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We’ll see Sheila! Thanks for stopping by.
I love the verse and picture. Both are so refreshing!
I think I need to abandon trying to use reason to figure these out. I believe I recall you pointing out in the past that the people are criminals. Obviously, there are some criminals who thing thinks through very carefully before pulling off a crime, but I don’t think any of these are guilty of thinking. I choose #4. The guy didn’t get “high enough” so he got stupid and careless.
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Edward, I don’t think any of the criminals I feature will think things through thoroughly. lol. Of course, just once I might have a smart crook who has really bad luck. 😉 Thanks for stopping by.
Like the one who got stuck in the chimney and died! On second thought, he wasn’t smart but he did have exceptionally bad luck.
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That’s right, Edward. 🙂
Isaiah 55:10-11 is the perfect scripture for the season we are currently living in. Thank you for the beautiful reminder of His powerful word.
#4
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I agree about Isaiah 55:10-11, Caryl. Thanks for stopping by.
#2 sounds far-fetched!
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Hi, Joan! Good to ‘see’ you here. We’ll see next week if it’s #2.
#3 – wouldn’t someone have smelled a decaying body, or missed the guy!?
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Good thought, MS Barb…we’ll see. Glad you stopped by and commented!