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The Plane Crash
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
Susan watched as her husband boarded the 8:15 pm Qantas flight from Melbourne to Auckland. She then drove home from the airport and proceeded to watch a movie. About one hour into the movie there was a news flash: the 8:15 pm Qantas flight from Melbourne to Auckland had crashed with no survivors. Susan did not react. She just continued to watch the movie. How come?
Hint
It was a genuine, accurate news flash.The woman's husband had boarded the plane; however, the woman knew her husband hadn't been killed.
Answer
The movie had been shown a week earlier. Susan had taped it onto a video and watched it that evening.Hide Hint Show Hint Hide Answer Show Answer
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Actually I thought that her husband was a Palestinian terrorist that wanted to blow up that plane so she knew this was going to happen and she was comforted by the fact that he is "going to heaven" for this "great contribution" that he had done for humanity.
do you have some hatred of the palestinians
Yes I do. You don't know what it's like living in Israel. You can't trust anybody, every morning I ride a bus to school and I thank god every time I get off, anyone who has a bag or backpack or a big coat looks suspicious, we can't go out on friday nights to places where there are alot of people. Everyone seems so miserable and depressed. I knew a person that got killed in Jenine.His picture was in the paper. His family & friends were a reck. His little brother couldn't stop crying. And the next day - nobody cared anymore. New pictures were in the paper. He wasn't mentioned in the news. And nobody talked about him ever again. Then I realised - he's just another face that had been forgotten by sunrise. A whole family will never be the same again. His friends & girlfriend will have a scar for life. And the next day, there were 20 new faces in the paper. And the whole world just stands by in silence.
May 11, 2002
if you dont actually live in Israel you are sick!
Of course I live in Israel...
einat16- please tell us more about life in Isreal-be safe
Thanx bret... things here are pretty much the same for a few months now. The people who choose to live there lives normaly are usually successful. Others are really depressing, but you can't blame them. In situations like this if a person wants to soak in self pity you should let him. Live and let live. I really am trying to ignore whatever goes on outside. I have alot of studying to do, so it gets my mind off things. I try to look at the bright side of life and I always tell people that things could be worse, that as long as we're safe we should grab on to the people we love and don't let great opportunitys go by. So tell me a little about you - where are you from?
All power to you einat16. I don't know how you cope, you must be very brave. I wish you peace and a long life.
I thought he was a plane inspector, and he checked something on the plane and then got off. Good one though.
that's a good 'un
Thanks enat16.Keep up! Even though that's kinda boring for magiastar who wrote this teaser though )
I read a book about that. Did u know about september 11. Any way good teaser
i thought he was already dead....
Good luck enait16. Nothing more I can say than has already been said.
Good luck enait16
Qantas never crashed...
einat16: my best wishes to you and keep up the positive attitude. As for the teaser it was great. I thought that in the movie some plane crashed down.
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