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alien2
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Execution by means of electrocution
« on: Aug 10th, 2016, 1:39am » |
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A smart overweight man on death row is offered several choices for his execution, with one of them being lethal injection. He chooses an electric chair. Why?
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Re: Execution by means of electrocution
« Reply #1 on: Aug 10th, 2016, 8:52am » |
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He watched the news and didn't want to be yet another example of a botched lethal injection?
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alien2
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Re: Execution by means of electrocution
« Reply #2 on: Aug 10th, 2016, 9:43am » |
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No! Because the stingy warden did not pay prison’s electric bill! Only kidding.
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rloginunix
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Re: Execution by means of electrocution
« Reply #3 on: Aug 10th, 2016, 11:29am » |
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"Americans should know the answer"?
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Re: Execution by means of electrocution
« Reply #4 on: Aug 10th, 2016, 2:55pm » |
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Because he is so overweight that he won't fit in the chair. They would need to build a custom electric chair just for him - giving him an effective stay of execution.
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alien2
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Re: Execution by means of electrocution
« Reply #5 on: Aug 10th, 2016, 4:28pm » |
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on Aug 10th, 2016, 2:55pm, dudiobugtron wrote:| Because he is so overweight that he won't fit in the chair. They would need to build a custom electric chair just for him - giving him an effective stay of execution. |
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This is the intended answer.
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rloginunix
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Re: Execution by means of electrocution
« Reply #6 on: Aug 11th, 2016, 6:37am » |
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In Bad Knees, after, quoted by me above, hint was given as Reply #15, towr replied with an idea which I suggested as an answer to this puzzle, in a reusable form ...
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Re: Execution by means of electrocution
« Reply #7 on: Aug 11th, 2016, 7:27am » |
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No worries rloginunix. The credit goes to you. It is not uncommon to take me a while to get what seems to be obvious. Slow brain. That is why I prefer correspondence and to stare sometimes for hours at a computer screen while I write poetry likewise riddles. I guess the moral of the story is, if you want people to understand you without a shadow of a doubt, don't ever speak in riddles.
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