Lateral Thinking Questions

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ANSWER: L.T.Q. #47

Date: Thu, 17 Oct 96 13:01 EDT

I thawed this one was going to be tricky, but it turned out to be icy.

Here is this week's question:

A couple went on holiday for three weeks. They carefully locked their house, and had a neighbour check on the place while they were gone. When they returned, the wife was distressed to learn that because there had been a power failure she had lost all her fine jewelry. She had hidden the jewelry in what she thought was a very safe place. She was not robbed. Her jewelry was lost by accident. Why?

ANSWER:

In this true incident, the wife had hidden her best jewelry inside her freezer in a bag among all the frozen food. Because of a general power failure the freezer had gone off. A friendly neighbour (who had a key in order to water the plants) had tried to be helpful by throwing out all the bad food— and with it went the jewelry.

And now for the frozen banananananananas:

Lynne said: "To make it worse the vacationing neighbours had their freezer contents insured for four thousand dollars, and had no proof to make a claim with." She gets bonus cute points for sticking her tongue out (or firmly in cheek) and adding that "this is too the answer, whether you agree or not. Nyah Nyah."

oddlystrange said: "She hid her jewelery in the trash compactor. When the power came back on it crushed all her jewelery (although she had to be pretty dumb to do something like that.)"

Lew also questioned the woman's IQ. "How they couldn't tell the difference between the Crown Jewels of Chablookistan and Green Giant™ Sweet Peas is beyond me..."

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