Lateral Thinking 1

[al.oliveira]

1. A body is discovered in a park in Chicago in the middle of summer. It has a fractured skull and many other broken bones, but the cause of death was hypothermia.

Solution: A poor peasant from somewhere in Europe desperately wants to come to the United States. Lacking money for airfare, he stows away in the landing gear compartment of a jet. He dies of hypothermia in mid-flight and falls out when the compartment opens as the plane makes its final approach.

2. A man is driving his car. He turns on the radio, listens for five minutes, turns around, goes home, and shoots his wife.

Solution: The radio program is one of those shows where they call up someone at random and ask them a question. The announcer states the name and town of the man's wife as the person he would call next. He does so, and a male voice answers. From this, he gathered his wife was having an affair.

[RuiMiguelAlonso]

1- A man lives in the penthouse of an apartment building. Every morning he takes the elevator down to the lobby and leaves the building. Upon his return, however, he can only travel halfway up in the lift and has to walk the rest of the way - unless it's raining. What is the explanation for this?

solution: The man is a dwarf. He can't reach the upper elevator buttons, but he can ask people to push them for him. He can also push them with his umbrella.

2- A man and his son are in a car crash. The father is killed and the child is taken to hospital gravely injured. When he gets there, the surgeon says, 'I can't operate on this boy - for he is my son!!!' How can this possibly be?

solution: The surgeon can not operate on her own son; she is his mother

[mmontes]

1.
A beggar's brother went out to sea and drowned.
But the man who drowned had no brother.
What was the relationship between the man who drowned and the beggar?

#Answer: the beggars was his sister


2.
A woman has incontrovertible proof in court that her husband was murdered by her sister.
The judge declares, "This is the strangest case I've ever seen.
Though it's a cut-and-dried case, this woman cannot be punished."

#Answer: The sisters are Siamese twins