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(Message started by: TheGodfather234 on Mar 30^th, 2005, 6:06pm)

Title: Death on the Train
Post by TheGodfather234 on Mar 30^th, 2005, 6:06pm

A man stepped out of a train to his death. He had been on his own in the compartment, and all that was there was a black handkerchief. If he had been travelling by any other mode of transportation he most certainly would not have died. What happened?

Really Confusing and complicated

Title: Re: Death on the Train
Post by The_Godfather on Mar 30^th, 2005, 6:11pm

on 03/30/05 at 18:06:03, TheGodfather234 wrote:

/\Really Confusing and complicated/\

Was this really needed? ;) Evan, just wanted to pick on you

Title: Re: Death on the Train
Post by TheGodfather234 on Mar 30^th, 2005, 6:18pm

***Hint: [hide]The train was in a tunnel, but if it wasn't the man would not have killed himself[/hide]***

Title: Re: Death on the Train
Post by TheGodfather234 on Mar 30^th, 2005, 7:10pm

Come on people it isn't that hard!!!! Ok, well maybe it is but still at least try!~!~!~!~!~!

Title: Re: Death on the Train
Post by towr on Mar 30^th, 2005, 11:11pm

This isn't the guy that just had an operation, is it?

Title: Re: Death on the Train
Post by TheGodfather234 on Mar 31^st, 2005, 6:03am

Ummmmmmmmmmmmm... no ;) ok yes

Title: Re: Death on the Train
Post by towr on Mar 31^st, 2005, 7:27am

I'm not sure what the black handkerchief was for then.
And I can think up one other mode of transportation that would probably have been the death of him in the same way. (Not that it's used much these days)

Title: Re: Death on the Train
Post by The_Godfather on Mar 31^st, 2005, 8:17am

Haha good luck with that, towr. What kind of operation, that's the question! hint/\

Title: Re: Death on the Train
Post by towr on Mar 31^st, 2005, 9:00am

on 03/31/05 at 08:17:54, The_Godfather wrote:

Haha good luck with that, towr. What kind of operation, that's the question! hint/\

[hide]An eye operation. The train went through a tunnel so he thought he was blind again. And in the riddle I knew he then proceeded to kill himself in despair.[/hide]

Title: Re: Death on the Train
Post by The_Godfather on Mar 31^st, 2005, 2:25pm

Exactly the answer, towr, TheGodfather234 was looking for. The black handkerchief was to[hide]cover his eyes after the operation. The man wanted to know if he could see, so he took it off and set it down on the train. When all he saw was darkness, he committed suicide by jumping off the train.[/hide]

Title: Re: Death on the Train
Post by TheGodfather234 on Mar 31^st, 2005, 8:13pm

What is the mode of transportation you were referring to ?

Title: Re: Death on the Train
Post by Grimbal on Apr 1^st, 2005, 12:49am

This is a case where he could have lit a match, to check if the light is off.

Title: Re: Death on the Train
Post by towr on Apr 1^st, 2005, 1:39am

on 03/31/05 at 20:13:51, TheGodfather234 wrote:

What is the mode of transportation you were referring to ?

Well, before trains, in Britain for example, they used boats, going through canals. And those canals, in the hilly countryside, would also go through tunnels. So you'd have the same problem.
(Although it could be they weren't much used for transportation of people, and only of goods. I'm not that well informed about pre- and early industrial Britain, and around here we have lots of canals but no hills)