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Jail Time
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
Everyone in the courtroom was stunned. Fred was going to get 18 months in jail for doing his job, which is a respectable profession. How could this happen in a country like the United States?
Answer
Fred was a journalist and refused to name his source on an article he wrote on some government misdealing. He was jailed in accordance to a 1972 Supreme Court ruling that journalists could be made to testify before a grand jury if the prosecution could convince the judge it was necessary.Hide Answer Show Answer
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FREDRICK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
YOUR TEASER WAS HORRIBLE
(actually, i quite enjoyed it)
I WASTED MY TIME
(well ya, im spose to be doing something else)
good job Mr. Fredrick
YOUR TEASER WAS HORRIBLE
(actually, i quite enjoyed it)
I WASTED MY TIME
(well ya, im spose to be doing something else)
good job Mr. Fredrick
Good One, Good Job!!!!
Wow, interesting! I thought it was really good, totally worth learning more stuff over the summer(even though I don't have to take Law Ed. any more:yesssss)Anyway, I thought maybe it wouldn't happen in the United States, but it could happen in like a third world country or something! Makes for a good trick teaser, huh? Ok, maybe not, I just got it wrong, just making excuses, oh well, great teaser!!!
How fitting to today's news and stuff! (At least I think so... don't watch much news...)
It is fitting. I got the idea from the Valerie Plame issue, where one of two reporters, Judith Miller of the New York Times, has been sentenced to jail time for not revealing her source. Matthew Cooper of Time released the information to the grand jury after his source agreed to let him out of their confidentiality agreement.
ewwwww
AFTER I read the answer, I thought of the story that you used for inspiration.
Great teaser!
Great teaser!
that was pretty easy...after i read the answer
I knew that one. I never get the situation teasers right. I liked it.
no clue
Wow !!!!!!!!!!!
I thought he was a surprising choice for a prison guard, under contract.
OK, but if we are going to start using all the stunningly unfair things about the United States as teasers, we will need a whole new category.
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