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(Message started by: alien2 on Aug 10^th, 2016, 1:39am)

Title: Execution by means of electrocution
Post by alien2 on Aug 10^th, 2016, 1:39am

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?

Title: Re: Execution by means of electrocution
Post by towr on Aug 10^th, 2016, 8:52am

He watched the news and didn't want to be yet another example of a botched lethal injection?

Title: Re: Execution by means of electrocution
Post by alien2 on Aug 10^th, 2016, 9:43am

No! Because the stingy warden did not pay prison’s electric bill! Only kidding.

Not at all. Try again.

Title: Re: Execution by means of electrocution
Post by rloginunix on Aug 10^th, 2016, 11:29am

"[hide]Americans[/hide] should know the answer"?

Title: Re: Execution by means of electrocution
Post by dudiobugtron on Aug 10^th, 2016, 2:55pm

Because he is [hide]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.[/hide]

Title: Re: Execution by means of electrocution
Post by alien2 on Aug 10^th, 2016, 4:28pm

on 08/10/16 at 14:55:06, dudiobugtron wrote:

Because he is [hide]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.[/hide]

This is the intended answer.

Title: Re: Execution by means of electrocution
Post by rloginunix on Aug 11^th, 2016, 6:37am

In Bad Knees (https://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~wwu/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.cgi?board=riddles_whathappened;action=display;num=1468758388), after, quoted by me above, hint was given as Reply #15, towr replied with an idea (https://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~wwu/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.cgi?board=riddles_whathappened;action=display;num=1468758388;start=16#16) which I suggested as an answer to this puzzle, in a reusable form ...

Title: Re: Execution by means of electrocution
Post by alien2 on Aug 11^th, 2016, 7:27am

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.