This past week I spent time at Destin with my family, so my blog post is a little short. 🙂 I had no idea the waves could get so high down there. I almost thought I was in Hawaii!
Last week’s Mystery Question. Which one of the following technologies is incorrect?
- Generic property marker: a water-based solution that can be sprayed or painted to mark your property with a unique chemical code. Stolen items can be identified by the chemical barcode.
- Biometrics, including facial recognition software–you’ve seen it on the crime shows where the police tech matches a photo with an actual person, but is it real?
- Technology that alerts police to the location of gun shots as they happen. It also distinguishes between the gun shot and the echoes that follow.
- Satellite imaging: real-time satellite photos of specific areas where crime is likely to occur, giving police a heads-up on a crime as it happens.
And the incorrect technology is #4. We’re close but now quite there yet. Congratulations on guessing correctly Delores, Anne, Lisa, Jackie and Loraine for getting it right!
Now for this week’s Mystery Question:
A man’s house caught fire and he began unloading his most important belongings out a window and carried them to his car. A week later he was arrested for arson. Why?
- When asked if he’d bought any type of accelerant in the past month he said no, but a hardware store receipt found in a part of the house that didn’t burn showed he’d purchased a gallon can of paint thinner just days before the fire.
- A nine-year-old boy who lived in the neighborhood told his father he had seen the man pouring something from a can around the house and then throw a match on it. They reported it to the police.
- When the police checked his pacemaker, it showed no high heart rates that would indicate strenuous activity during the time in question.
- The fire marshal found copper clips and nails at the source of the fire and deduced that he had used a lemon, copper clips, nails, wire, and tissue paper to start a fire next to the cotton curtains.
Okay, Super Sleuths, what is the correct answer? Leave your answer in the comment box to be entered in a drawing for Justice Buried when it releases!
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I’m going to be consistent and go for #1 again! Thanks for the tricky answers, Pat!
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Paula, so glad you like the tricky answers! We’ll see who’s correct next week.
Don’t know if it is correct but I like choice 3, too calm during a fire.
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Hi Ellen! I like your logic. We’ll see if that’s correct next week.
OOOh, I don’t like to be first…lol….I’ll say #1
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We’ll see, Jackie, and thanks for being first!
Hmmm. My first instinct is to go with number 2 for some reason, but then I like number 4. This is hard Patricia! I’ll go with number 4.
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Dana, #4 you say? Hmmm. We’ll see. We’ll see. Thanks for stopping by.
I choose 1, although the one I think is the least likely answer will probably be the correct one.
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Hmmm, Edward, do you think I’d be that sneaky? Thanks for stopping by.
Pat, I’m not suggesting you are sneaky. Instead, I am saying my brain seems to function different. For example, I think #3 is least likely because it seems his heart rate would have been elevated simply due to lifting things out the window. I am basing that on conversations with my mother who has a pacemaker. It seems any exertion causes her heart rate to increase.
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I love being sneaky, Edward. lol. Are you guessing #3?
I’m going with #4. Do people really have cotton curtains? Can’t wait to see the correct answer!
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I like your logic, Sally! I don’t know about cotton curtains. Thanks for stopping by!
I’m going with number 3.
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Hi, Loraine! We’ll see next week if it’s #3. Thanks for stopping by.
I think it’s #1 or #2 but will go w/ #2 this time. I enjoy these each week.
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Hi Delores! Thanks for taking time out of your travels to post a comment! And we’ll see next week if you got it right. 🙂
I had trouble deciding but I am going with #3.
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The more trouble deciding, Gloria, the better! Thanks for stopping by and leaving a comment.
My nose has been buried in some good books 🙂 So I’m a little late in answering this week’s question. I will guess #4, it kind of sounds McGyverish 🙂
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Hi, Trixi, and Happy Birthday earlier this week! I don’t think I made it to FB to wish you well. 🙂 I like McGyverish!
Awww, thanks Patricia! Went out with my hubby for a nice steak dinner, we even got dessert 🙂 Took them home to eat because we were full, lol! My husband got a cinnamon roll that was the size of a dinner plate & I got a marionberry cobbler, the restaurant make all their desserts homemade.
McGyver was my favorite show in the 80’s! Always fun to see what he came up with next! My husband discovered a new one on TV and I think it’s suppose to be his son. It’s pretty good really!
I think #1 because most 9 yr old kids would be too busy playing video games to notice anything; moving stuff out a window would be strenuous and I don’t think the police can check your pacemaker for past activity; and if he had to climb out the window to move his stuff he must not have been able to use the door and used the window.
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Love your logic, Sue! We’ll see next week if you’re correct. 🙂 Thanks so much for stopping by!
# 3 We were at a beach close to you last week. Lots of Red Flags & Rip Tides.
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Oh, Lisa, you could surf last weekend!In fact there were a couple of people doing just that. lol. One of the waves knocked me off the boogie board and almost drowned me. lol. I was in San Destin, actually.
Sounds like you had a wonderful time in Destin! I’m guessing #1.
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Caryl, I had a wonderful time in Destin and would love to go back next week…if I didn’t have deadlines. lol. We’ll see Tuesday if you’re correct.
I did not choose 3 because it said “no high heart rates….” If it had said “it showed high heart rates”…., I would probably have picked 3.
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Good thinking, Anonymous! Thanks for stopping by and joining the conversation.