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The Robbery
There was a bank robbery in progress. A man sitting in a car outside realized that he was parked right in front of the getaway vehicle. He quickly looked in his mirror and wrote down the license plate number, just before the crooks sped away. He then took it to the police. The police tracked down the plate and unfortunately arrested the wrong person. Why did they do this?
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Because he was looking in a mirror, the man saw the license plate backwards and wrote it down wrong.Hide Answer Show Answer
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I thought of two possible explanations.1. The man was dumb enough not to realize that letters/numbers may look different when viewed from a mirror. 2. Assuming a man of common sense, the explanation could be the robbers used a stolen or fake plates.
I also thought the car was stolen.
That was good. It was easy though.
I would like to know the numbr plate that he wrote down which was not immediately recognisable as mirror reversed.
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