Lateral Thinking Questions

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ANSWER: L.T.Q. #12

Date: Wednesday, September 06, 1995 3:25PM

Are you getting as confused about these Lateral Thinking questions as I am? Not about the actual questions themselves, but about the process of sending the notes out to you guys. You know, things like:

when is the next question due?
is Mike in the office or on nights again this week?
when is the next answer due?
what is your favorite colour?
has Mike found the question cards yet?
what is the air-speed velocity of an unladen swallow?
if I'm called an Almondillo because I'm made of almonds,
why are you called a Turtle?

Having pondered the above for a period not less than 2.7 minutes, I can safely say that the Answer to Question #12 is below:

From this collection of mini-mysteries...
Here is this week's question:

In New York City's Central Park, in the middle of summer, police have discovered the frozen body of a man lying in the centre of a baseball diamond. There are no footprints leading to or away from the body. How did he die, and how did his body get to where it was found?

ANSWER:

A poor peasant wanted desperately to get out of [some undisclosed ethnically removed European country], so he hid himself in the landing-gear assembly of a transAtlantic flight. He died of hypothermia during the trip; his body froze while the plane was in the stratosphere. When the landing gear opened on the plane's approach to Kennedy Airport, his body fell into the park.

Anyone for a popcicle?

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