Phone Booth
Situation puzzles (sometimes called lateral thinking puzzles) are ones where you need to ask lots of yes or no questions to figure out what happened in the situation. These are good puzzles for groups where one person knows the puzzle and answers the questions.
A rich man's son was kidnapped. The ransom note told him to bring a valuable diamond to a phone booth in the middle of a public park. Plainclothes police officers surrounded the park, intending to follow the criminal or his messenger. The rich man arrived at the phone booth and followed instructions but the police were powerless to prevent the diamond from leaving the park and reaching the crafty villain. What did he do?
Answer
This is a true story from Taiwan. When the rich man reached the phone booth he found a carrier pigeon in a cage. It had a message attached telling the man to put the diamond in a small bag which was around the pigeon's neck and to release the bird.
When the man did this the police were powerless to follow the bird as it returned across the city to its owner.
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maddieisacocker
Dec 05, 2004
| love it      |
I_am_the_Omega 
Dec 05, 2004
| Hmmm... yeah that's pretty weird. Don't you think the "smart" villain would've had the sense to ask for like... oh heck, I dunno.. lots of cash?
Err..wait.. yen isn't worth anything.. nvm... lol
Anyways... I thought he just had a sniper rifle trained on the son or something =P  |
Punk_Rocker  
Dec 07, 2004
| Wow that's clever...that might help me later in life, thanks!! lol jk......or am i? |
paper_71
Dec 12, 2004
| really, then this is true story from hy heritage. where did you get this. i really want to know. i am very very interested. |
Jesusfreak6679
Dec 18, 2004
| That's a really good one, my friends loved it! |
catzgirl_95
Mar 30, 2005
| i like the riddle but a.....did he ever give the son back? |
changegurl
May 11, 2005
| Who Knew? I would have never thought of that one.  |
dutchymonster
Jun 04, 2005
| I guessed at a helicopter
i was on the right lines -
by air |
AZTTT
Oct 12, 2005
| wow, i actually got it! Good one tho. very clever criminal. Too bad the police were not as clever or they could have put a small tracking device on the diamond or bird |
akl21
Jun 20, 2006
| It was smart of the criminal! I suppose he's rich now. Anyway, good teaser...I guess the strangest stuff is the truth |
WCCope
Sep 19, 2007
| I was thinking "put on float & drop it in a drain"
there are others from tv/movies
put it in trash can (hole to subway)
put it in locker (false back in next room)
remote control boat/plane |
liketeasers
Jul 18, 2008
| wow lol that's interesting. but why were the police so stupid? they could have just attached something like a sensor map on the bird so they knew where it was going. |
superfluff4
May 09, 2013
| It is too vague to make out that there was a pigeon in the booth saying "Gimme the diamond". Puzzling.  |
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