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The ATM Accident
Situation
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.Situation
I drove up to a drive-thru Automated Teller Machine (ATM, bank machine). I did NOT hit anything, and no crazy person with a bat attacked my car, yet when I drove away, my car had sustained $1000 damage. What happened?
Hint
ATM's are serviced in a peculiar way.Answer
When an ATM machine is serviced, part of the machine moves out (in this case, out from the wall), allowing the service personnel access to the inner part of the machine. The service person wasn't particularly observant, and "opened" the machine while I was trying to use it, denting my car and tearing the side mirror almost completely off, thus causing $1000 worth of damage.Hide Hint Show Hint Hide Answer Show Answer
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Wow! Did this really happen to you?
Yes, it did...
I'm not even old enough to drive
May 27, 2003
Cool situation
...wasn`t so cool at the time...
I am not familiar with this type of ATM. Ours don't come out at you like that, maybe at the bank window connected to the bank, which is rare, but here, those are not considered ATMs, they are Drive thrus for the bank. The ATM only gives you cash when you insert your card, which is why they are Automatic Tellers, not ones with real people behind them.
To: thegermangemini
What exactly do you mean by "ours"?
What exactly do you mean by "ours"?
The ATMs that are in my area. I live in VA.
yeah i've never seen an ATM like that, we do have drive through banks though (in Australia). not that i'm saying that the situation couldn't have occurred.
my question is that, since it wasn't a crazy person with a bat that attacked the car, does that mean it could have been teen vandals who wanted to torment you?
my question is that, since it wasn't a crazy person with a bat that attacked the car, does that mean it could have been teen vandals who wanted to torment you?
how is it that island-paradise submitted the teaser, but odd-1 is replying to the comments- are you the same person under different sn's?
husband/wife (the odd one being the male!!)
I guess the little signs prove that!!
I was going to say it was a crasy person with a shovel!
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