solutions to Jed's list in latex

[Mark Wiggerman]

These are the solutions to Jed's list of situation puzzles formatted in latex.

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\section*{Section 1: "Realistic" situation puzzles.}

\section*{1}

A bunch of people are on an ocean voyage in a yacht. One afternoon, they all decide to go
swimming, so they put on swimsuits and dive off the side into the water. Unfortunately, they
forget to set up a ladder on the side of the boat, so there's no way for them to climb back in, and
they drown.
Variant answer: The same situation, except that they set out a ladder which is just barely long
enough. When they all dive into the water, the boat, without their weight, rises in the water until
the ladder is just barely out of reach. (also from Steve Jacquot)

\section*{2}

The room is the ballroom of an ocean liner which sank some time ago. The man ran out of air
while diving in the wreck.
Variant which puts this in section 2: same statement, ending with "a large window through which
rays are coming." Answer: the rays are manta rays (this version tends to make people assume
vampires are involved, unless they notice the awkwardness of the phrase involving rays).

\section*{3}

The husband killed himself a while ago; it's his ashes in an urn on the mantelpiece that the wife looks
at. It's debatable whether this belongs in section 2 for double meanings.

\section*{4}

A poor peasant from somewhere in Europe wants desperately to get to the U.S. Not having
money for airfare, he stows away in the landing gear compartment of a jet. He dies of
hypothermia in mid-flight, and falls out when the landing gear compartment opens as the plane
makes its final approach.
Variant: A man is lying drowned in a dead forest. Answer: He's scuba diving when a firefighting
plane lands nearby and fills its tanks with water, sucking him in with the water. He runs out of air
while the plane is in flight; the plane then dumps its load of water, with him in it, onto a burning
forest. (from Jim Moskowitz)

\section*{5}

The man is a midget. He can't reach the upper elevator buttons, but he can ask people to push them
for him. He can also push them with his umbrella. I've usually heard this stated with more details:
"Every morning he wakes up, gets dressed, eats, goes to the elevator..." Ron Carter suggests a nice
red herring: the man lives on the 13th floor of the building.

\section*{6}

The sisters are Siamese twins.
Variant: A man and his brother are in a bar drinking. They begin to argue (as always) and the
brother won't get out of the man's face, shouting and cursing. The man, finally fed up, pulls out a
pistol and blows his brother's brains out. He sits down to die. Answer: They are Siamese twins.
In the original story, the argument started when one complained about the other's bad hygiene
and bad breath. The shooter bled to death (from his brother's wounds) by the time the police
arrived. (from Randy Whitaker, based on a 1987 =Weekly World News= story)

\section*{7}

The man has hiccups; the bartender scares them away by pulling a gun.

\section*{8}

The man used to be blind; he's now returning from an eye operation which restored his sight.
He's spent all his money on the operation, so when the train (which has no internal lighting)
goes through a tunnel he at first thinks he's gone blind again and almost decides to kill himself.
Fortunately, the light of the cigarettes people are smoking convinces him that he can still see.
Variant: A man dies on a train he does not ordinarily catch. Answer: The man (a successful
artist) has had an accident in which he injured his eyes. His head is bandaged and he has
been warned not to remove the bandages under any circumstances lest the condition be
irreversibly aggravated. He catches the train home from the hospital and cannot resist peeking.
Seeing nothing at all (the same train-in-tunnel situation as above obtains, but without the
glowing cigarettes this time), he assumes he is blinded and kills himself in grief. I like this
version a lot, except that it makes much less sense that he'd be traveling alone. (from Bernd
Wechner)

\section*{9}

The man was in a ship that was wrecked on a desert island. When there was no food left,
another passenger brought what he said was abalone but was really part of the man's wife (who
had died in the wreck). The man suspects something fishy, so when they finally return to
civilization, he orders abalone, realizes that what he ate before was his wife, and kills himself.
Variant: same problem statement but with albatross instead of abalone. Answer: In this version,
the man was in a lifeboat, with his wife, who died. He hallucinated an albatross landing in the
boat which he caught and killed and ate; he thought that his wife had been washed overboard.
When he actually eats albatross, he discovers that he had actually eaten his wife.
Variant answer to 1.9a, with a slightly different problem statement: the man already knew that he
had been eating human flesh. He asks the waiter in the restaurant what kind of soup is
available, and the waiter responds, "Albatross soup." Thinking that "albatross soup" means
"human soup," and sickened by the thought of such a society (place in a foreign country if
necessary), he kills himself. (from Mike Neergaard)

\section*{10}

He stood on a block of ice to hang himself. The fact that there's no furniture in the room can be added
to the statement, but if it's mentioned in conjunction with the puddle of water the answer tends to be
guessed more easily.

\section*{11}

He stabbed himself with an icicle.

\section*{12}

He jumped out of an airplane, but his parachute failed to open. Minor variant wording (from Joe
Kincaid): he's on a mountain trail instead of in a desert. Minor variant wording (from Mike
Reymond): he's got a ring in his hand (it came off of the ripcord).
Silly variant: same problem statement, with the addition that one of the man's shoelaces is
untied. Answer: He pulled his shoelace instead of the ripcord.
Variant answer: The man was let loose in the desert with a pack full of poisoned food. He knows
it's poisoned, and doesn't eat it -- he dies of hunger. (from Mike Neergaard)

\section*{13 }

He was with several others in a hot air balloon crossing the desert. The balloon was punctured and
they began to lose altitude. They tossed all their non-essentials overboard, then their clothing and
food, but were still going to crash in the middle of the desert. Finally, they drew matches to see who
would jump over the side and save the others; this man lost. Minor variant wording: add that the man
is nude.

\section*{14}

The radio program is one of the call-up-somebody-and-ask-them-a- question contest shows; the
announcer gives the phone number of the man's bedroom phone as the number he's calling, and a
male voice answers. It's been suggested that such shows don't usually give the phone number being
called; so instead the wife's name could be given as who's being called, and there could be
appropriate background sounds when the other man answers the phone.

\section*{15}

He worked as a DJ at a radio station. He decided to kill his wife, and so he put on a long record
and quickly drove home and killed her, figuring he had a perfect alibi: he'd been at work. On the
way back he turns on his show, only to discover that the record is skipping.
Variant: The music stops and the man dies. Answer: The same, except it's a tape breaking
instead of a record skipping. (from Michael Killianey) (See also no.1.16, no.1.19e, and no.1.34a.)

\section*{16}

The woman is a tightrope walker in a circus. Her act consists of walking the rope blindfolded,
accompanied by music, without a net. The musician (organist, or calliopist, or pianist, or
whatever) is supposed to stop playing when she reaches the end of the rope, telling her that it's
safe to step off onto the platform. For unknown reasons (but with murderous intent), he stops
the music early, and she steps off the rope to her death.
Variant answer: The woman is a character in an opera, who "dies" at the end of her song.
Variant answer: The "woman" is the dancing figure atop a music box, who "dies" when the box
runs down. (Both of the above variants would probably require placing this puzzle in section 2
of the list.)
Variant: Charlie died when the music stopped. Answer: Charlie was an insect sitting on a chair;
the music playing was for the game Musical Chairs. (from Bob Philhower) (See also no.1.15a,
no.1.19e, and no.1.34a.)

\section*{17}

The man is a blind midget, the shortest one in the circus. Another midget, jealous because he's
not as short, has been sawing small pieces off of the first one's cane every night, so that every
day he thinks he's taller. Since his only income is from being a circus midget, he decides to kill
himself when he gets too tall.
Slightly variant answer: Instead of sawing pieces off of the midget's cane, someone has sawed
the legs off of his bed. He wakes up, stands up, and thinks he's grown during the night.
Variant: A pile of sawdust, no net, a man dies. Answer: A midget is jealous of the clown who
walks on stilts. He saws partway through the stilts; the clown walks along and falls and dies
when they break. (from Peter R. Olpe)

\section*{18}

The man is a lion-tamer, posing for a photo with his lions. The lions react badly to the flash of
the camera, and the man can't see properly, so he gets mauled.
Variant: He couldn't find a chair, so he died. Answer: He was a lion-tamer. This one is kind of
silly, but I like it, and it sounds possible to me (though I'm told a whip is more important than a
chair to a lion-tamer). (from "Reaper Man," with Karl Heuer wording)

\section*{19}

A blind man enjoys walking near a cliff, and uses the sound of a buoy to gauge his distance
from the edge. One day the buoy's anchor rope breaks, allowing the buoy to drift away from the
shore, and the man walks over the edge of the cliff.
Variant: A bell rings. A man dies. A bell rings. Answer: A blind swimmer sets an alarm clock to
tell him when and what direction to go to shore. The first bell is a buoy, which he mistakenly
swims to, getting tired and drowning. Then the alarm clock goes off. In other variations, the first
bell is a ship's bell, and/or the second bell is a hand-bell rung by a friend on shore at a
pre-arranged time.
Variant answer to 1.19a: The man falls off a belltower, pulling the bell-cord (perhaps he was
climbing a steeple while hanging onto the rope), and dies. The second bell is one rung at his
funeral. Could also be a variant on 1.19 (as suggested by Mike Neergaard): the bell-cord
breaks when he falls (and there's no second bell involved).
Variant answer to 1.19a: The man is a boxer. The first bell signals the start of a round; the
second is either the end of the round or a funeral bell after he dies during the match. Could also
be a variant on 1.19 (as suggested by Mike Neergaard): a boxing match in which the top rope
breaks, tumbling a boxer to the floor (and he dies of a concussion).
Variant: The wind stopped blowing and the man died. Answer: The sole survivor of a shipwreck
reached a desert isle. Unfortunately, he was blind. Luckily, there was a freshwater spring on the
island, and he rigged the ship's bell (which had drifted to the island also) at the spring's
location. The bell rang in the wind, directing him to water. When he was becalmed for a week, he
could not find water again, and so he died of thirst. (from Peter R. Olpe)
Variant: The music stopped and the man died. Answer: Same as 1.19a, but the blind swimmer
kept a portable transistor radio on the beach instead of a bell. When the batteries gave out, he
got lost and drowned. (from Joe Kincaid) (See also no.1.15a, no.1.16, and no.1.34a.)

\section*{20}

The woman is the assistant to a (circus or sideshow) knife-thrower. The new shoes have
higher heels than she normally wears, so that the thrower misjudges his aim and one of his
knives kills her during the show.
Variant: A woman sees her husband entering a certain place of business and insists on
dissolving their partnership. Answer: The husband is a knife-thrower; the woman is his
assistant as well as his wife. She sees him going into an optometrist's office and decides that if
he's having trouble with his eyes she doesn't want him throwing knives at her. (from =How
Come -- Again?=)

\section*{21 }

Several men were shipwrecked together. They agreed to survive by eating each other a piece
at a time. Each of them in turn gave up an arm, but before they got to the last man, they were
rescued. They all demanded that the last man live up to his end of the deal. Instead, he killed a
bum and sent the bum's arm to the others in a box to "prove" that he had fulfilled the bargain.
Later, one of them sees him on the subway, holding onto an overhead ring with the arm he
supposedly cut off; the other realizes that the last man cheated, and kills him.
Variant wording: A man sends a package to someone in Europe and gets a note back saying
"Thank you. I received it." Answer: This is just a simpler version; the shipwreck situation is the
same, and the man actually did send his own arm.
Variant wording: Two men throw a box off of a cliff. Answer: Exactly the same situation as in
1.21a (one slight variation has a hand in the box instead of a whole arm), with the two men being
two of the fellow passengers who had already lost their arms.
Variant wording: A man in a Sherlock Holmes-style cape walks into a room, places a box on
the table and leaves. Answer: In this one he's wearing the cape either to disguise the fact that
he hasn't really cut off his arm/hand as required, or else simply in order to hide his now-missing
limb. (from Joe Kincaid)

\section*{22}

Both women are white; the one whose house this takes place in is single. A black friend of the
other woman, the one who goes into the bathroom, was recently killed, reportedly by the KKK.
The woman who goes into the bathroom discovers a bloodstained KKK robe in the other's
laundry hamper, picks up a nail file from the medicine cabinet (or some other impromptu
weapon), and goes out and kills the other.
Variant: A man goes to hang his coat and realizes he will die that day. Answer: The man (who
is black) has car trouble and is in need of a telephone. He asks at the nearest house and on
being invited in goes to hang his coat, whereupon he notices the white robes of the Ku Klux
Klan in the closet. (from Bernd Wechner)

\section*{23}

He is in a hotel, and is unable to sleep because the man in the adjacent room is snoring. He
calls the room next door (from his own room number he can easily figure out his neighbor's, and
from the room number, the telephone number). The snorer wakes up, answers the phone. The
first man hangs up without saying anything and goes to sleep before the snorer gets back to
sleep and starts snoring again.
Slightly variant answer: It's a next-door neighbor in an apartment building who's snoring, rather
than in a hotel. The caller thus knows his neighbor and the phone number.

\section*{24}

It's the man's fiftieth birthday, and in celebration of this he plans to kill his wife, then take the
money he's embezzled and move on to a new life in another state. His wife takes him out to
dinner; afterward, on their front step, he kills her. He opens the door, dragging her body in with
him, and all the lights suddenly turn on and a group of his friends shout "Surprise!" He kills
himself. (Note that the whole first part, including the motive, isn't really necessary; it was just
part of the original story.)

\section*{25}

Abel is a prince of the island nation that he landed on. A cruel and warlike prince, he waged
many land and naval battles along with his father the king. In one naval encounter, their ship
sank, the king died, and the prince swam to a deserted island where he spent several months
building a raft or small boat. In the meantime, a regent was appointed to the island nation, and
he brought peace and prosperity. When Prince Abel returned to his kingdom, Cain (a native
fisherman) realized that the peace of the land would only be maintained if Abel did not reascend
to his throne, and killed the prince (with a piece of driftwood or some other impromptu weapon).

\section*{26}

The drinks contain poisoned ice cubes; one man drinks slowly, giving them time to melt, while the
other drinks quickly and thus doesn't get much of the poison. The fact that they drink at different
speeds could be added to the statement, possibly along with red herrings such as saying that one of
the men is big and burly and the other short and thin.

\section*{27}

Joe is a kid who goes trick-or-treating for Halloween.

\section*{28}

He's a smuggler. On the first cruise, someone brings the contraband to his cabin, and he hides it in
an air conditioning duct. Returning to the U.S., he leaves without the contraband, and so passes
through customs with no trouble. On the second trip, he has the same cabin on the same ship.
Because it doesn't stop anywhere, he doesn't have to go through customs when he returns, so he
gets the contraband off safely.

\section*{29}

Hans and Fritz do everything right up until they're filling out a personal-information form and have to
write down their birthdays. Fritz' birthday is, say, July 7, so he writes down 7/7/15. Hans, however, was
born on, say, June 20, so he writes down 20/6/18 instead of what an American would write, 6/20/18.
Note that this is only a problem because they *claim* to be returning Americans; as has been
pointed out to me, there are lots of other nations which use the same date ordering.

\section*{30}

Another WWII story. Greg is a German spy. His "friend" Tim is suspicious, so he plays a
word-association game with him. When Tim says "The land of the free," Greg responds with "The
home of the brave." Then Tim says "The terror of flight," and Greg says "The gloom of the grave." Any
U.S. citizen knows the first verse of the national anthem, but only a spy would have memorized the
third verse. (Why Tim knew the third verse is left as an exercise to the reader.)

\section*{31}

The dead man was the driver in a hit-and-run accident which paralyzed its victim. The victim did
manage to get the license plate number of the car; now in a wheelchair, he eventually tracked down
the driver and shot and killed him.

\section*{32}

His home is a houseboat and he has run out of water while on an extended cruise.
Variant wording: A man dies of thirst in his own home. This version goes more quickly because
it gives more information; but it may be less likely to annoy people who think the original
statement is too vague.

\section*{33}

This is apparently a true story. The hot sun reflected from the woman's large mirror (which I speculate
may have been imperfectly flat and therefore focused the sunlight, but I don't know for sure) and
heated the lingerie she was wearing to the burning point. She was absorbed in a book at the time and
didn't notice the heat until her clothing was afire. Nobody could get to her to help because her doors
were locked from the inside. Please disregard the version of this answer from previous editions of this
list; it's not true.

\section*{34 }

He's leaving a hospital after visiting his wife, who's on heavy life-support. When the power
goes out, he knows she can't live without the life-support systems (he assumes that if the
emergency backup generator were working, the elevator wouldn't lose power; this aspect isn't
entirely satisfactory, so in a variant, the scene is at home rather than in a hospital).
Variant: The music stops and a woman dies. Answer: The woman is confined in an iron lung,
and the music is playing on her radio or stereo. The power goes out. (from Randy Whitaker)
(See also no.1.15a, no.1.16, and no.1.19e.)

\section*{35}

A large man comes home to the penthouse apartment he shares with his beautiful young wife, taking
the elevator up from the ground floor. He sees signs of lovemaking in the bedroom, and assumes that
his wife is having an affair; her beau has presumably escaped down the stairs. The husband looks out
the French windows and sees a good-looking man just leaving the main entrance of the building. The
husband pushes the refrigerator out through the window onto the young man below. The husband
dies of a heart attack from overexertion; the young man below dies from having a refrigerator fall on
him; and the wife's boyfriend, who was hiding inside the refrigerator, also dies from the fall.

\section*{36}

Let's say "she" is named Suzy, and "they" are named Harry and Jane. Harry is an elderly
archaeologist who has found a very old skeleton, which he's dubbed "Jane" (a la "Lucy"). Suzy is a
buyer for a museum; she's supposed to make some sort of purchase from Harry, so she invites him to
have a business dinner with her (at a restaurant). When she calls to invite him, he keeps talking
about "Jane," so Suzy assumes that Jane is his wife and says to bring her along. Harry, offended,
calls Suzy's boss and complains; since Suzy should've known who Jane was, she gets fired.

\section*{37}

The man is delivering a pardon, and the flicker of the lights indicates that the person to be pardoned
has just been electrocuted.

\section*{38}

The murderer sets the car on a slope above the hot dog stand where the victim works. He then
wedges an ice block in the car to keep the brake pedal down, and puts the car in neutral, after which
he flies to another city to avoid suspicion. It's a warm day; when the ice melts, the car rolls down the
hill and strikes the hot dog man at his roadside stand, killing him.

\section*{39}

There's a car wash on that corner. On rainy days, the rain reduces traction. On sunny days, water
from the car wash has the same effect. If rain is threatening, though, the car wash gets little business
and thus doesn't make the road wet, so I can take the corner faster.

\section*{40}

The object she throws is a boomerang. It flies out, loops around, and comes back and hits her
in the head, killing her. Boomerangs do not often return so close to the point from which they
were thrown, but I believe it's possible for this to happen.
Silly variant answer: She's in a submarine or spacecraft and throws a heavy object at the
window, which breaks.

\section*{41}

He is a passenger in an airplane and sees the bird get sucked into an engine at 20,000 feet.

\section*{42}

They're the remains of a melted snowman.

\section*{43}

One of the brothers (A) confesses to the murder. At his trial, his brother (B) is called as the only
defense witness; B immediately confesses, in graphic detail, to having committed the crime. The
defense lawyer refuses to have the trial stopped, and A is acquitted under the "reasonable doubt"
clause. Immediately afterward, B goes on trial for the murder; A is called as the only defense witness
and HE confesses. B is declared innocent; and though everyone knows that ONE of them did it, how
can they tell who? Further, neither can be convicted of perjury until it's decided which of them did it... I
don't know if that would actually work under the US legal system, but someone else who heard the
story said that his father was on the jury for a VERY similar case in New York some years ago. Mark
Brader points out that the brothers might be convicted of conspiracy to commit perjury or to obstruct
justice, or something of that kind.

\section*{44}

He is a mail courier who delivers packages to the different foreign embassies in the United States.
The land of an embassy belongs to the country of the embassy, not to the United States.

\section*{45}

A man was shot during a robbery in his store one night. He staggered into the back room, where the
telephone was, and called home, dialing by feel since he hadn't turned on the light. Once the call went
through he gasped, "I'm at the store. I've been shot. Help!" or words to that effect. He set the phone
down to await help, but none came; he'd treated the telephone pushbuttons like cash register
numbers, when the arrangements of the numbers are upside down reflections of each other. The
stranger he'd dialed had no way to know where "the store" was.

\section*{46}

The dead man was playing Santa Claus, for whatever reason; he slipped while coming down the
chimney and broke his neck.
Variant answer: The dead man WAS Santa Claus. This moves the puzzle to section 2 as far as
I'm concerned.

\section*{47}

The man was struck by an object thrown from the roof of the Empire State Building. Originally I
had the object being a penny, but several people suggested that a penny probably wouldn't be
enough to penetrate someone's skull. Something aerodynamic and heavier, like a dart, was
suggested, but I don't know how much mass would be required.
Variant: A man is found dead outside a large marble building with three holes in him. Answer:
The man was a paleontologist working with the Archaeological Research Institute. He was
reviving a triceratops frozen in the ice age when it came to life and killed him. This couldn't
possibly happen because triceratops didn't exist during the ice age. (from Peter R. Olpe)

\section*{48}

The man died from eating a poisoned popsicle.

\section*{49}

The man was a sword swallower in a carnival side-show. While he was practicing, someone tickled
his throat with the feather, causing him to gag.

\section*{50}

A mosquito bit me, and I swatted it when it later landed on my ceiling (so the blood is my own as well
as the mosquito's).

\section*{51}

The man is a lighthouse keeper. He turns off the light in the lighthouse and during the night a
ship crashes on the rocks. Seeing this the next morning, the man realizes what he's done and
commits suicide.
Variant, similar to no.1.15: The light goes out and a man dies. Answer: The lighthouse keeper
uses his job as an alibi while he's elsewhere committing a crime, but the light goes out and a
ship crashes, thereby disproving the alibi. The lighthouse keeper kills himself when he realizes
his alibi is no good. (From Eric Wang)
Variant answer to 1.51a: Someone else's alibi is disproven. (A man commits a heinous crime,
claiming as his alibi that he was onboard a certain ship. When he learns that it was wrecked
without reaching port safely, he realizes that his alibi is disproven and commits suicide to avoid
being sent to prison.) (From Eric Wang)

\section*{52}

They were skydiving. He broke his arm as he jumped from the plane by hitting it on the plane
door; he couldn't reach his ripcord with his other arm. She pulled the ripcord for him.
Sketch of variant answer: The ring was attached to the pin of a grenade that he was holding.
Develop a situation from there.

\section*{53}

The man is a travel agent. He had sold someone two tickets for an ocean voyage, one round-trip and
one one-way. The last name of the man who bought the tickets is the same as the last name of the
woman who "fell" overboard and drowned on the same voyage, which is the subject of the article he's
reading.

\section*{54}

The man is a beekeeper, and the bees attack en masse because they don't recognize his fragrance.
Randy adds that this is based on something that actually happened to his grandfather, a beekeeper
who was severely attacked by his bees when he used a new aftershave for the first time in 10 or 20
years.

\section*{55}

He is a guard / attendant in a leper colony. The letter (to him) tells him that he has contracted the
disease. The key is the cigarette burning down between his fingers -- leprosy is fairly unique in killing
off sensory nerves without destroying motor ability.

\section*{56}

The man was a famous artist. A woman who collected autographs saw him dining; after he left the
restaurant, she purchased the check that he used to pay for the meal from the restaurant manager.
The check was therefore never cashed, so the artist never paid for the meal.

\section*{57}

The movie is at a drive-in theatre.

\section*{58}

The two men were working in a small room protected by a carbon dioxide gas fire extinguisher system,
when a fire broke out in an adjoining room. One of the men ran through the fire and escaped with only
minor burns. The other one stayed in the room until the fire extinguishers kicked in, and died of
oxygen starvation. (This originally involved a halon gas extinguisher, but those don't work that way;
fortunately, Gisle Hannemyr pointed out that CO2 extinguishers do work that way. Gisle says a CO2
extinguisher on a Norwegian ship a few years ago did go off accidentally when there was no fire, killing
everyone in the engine room.)

\section*{59}

He was a skywriter whose plane crashed into another plane.

\section*{60}

Beulah and Craig were hurricanes.

\section*{61}

Mr. and Mrs. Browning had just gotten married. Mrs. Browing was subject to fits of depression. They
had their first fight soon after they were married; Mr. Browning stormed out of the house, and Mrs.
Browning went into the garage and started up the car, intending to kill herself by filling the garage with
car exhaust. But the car ran out of gas quickly, and Mr. Browning, returning home to apologize, found
Mrs. Browning in time to summon help and restore her to health.

\section*{62}

He's riding a bicycle or motorcycle, and he crashes and dies.

\section*{63}

It's the middle of the night. The man goes outside to get something from his car, but as the parking lot
is set apart from the building, he forgets which room he was in. His wife is deaf, so he honks the car
horn loudly, waking up everyone else in the motel. The other residents all get up and turn on their
room lights; the man then returns to the one dark room.

\section*{64}

Because there was a heavy fog, two people driving in opposite directions on the same road both
stuck their heads out of their windows to better see the road's center line. Their heads hit each other
at high speed, killing them both. Andreas says this is based on an actual accident.

\section*{65}

She was on a motorcycle, and her long hair got caught on the car's antenna. It ripped out part of her
scalp and she bled to death. Andreas says this is also based on an actual accident.

\section*{66}

The boat was moving along a river in India when a large snake dropped onto the deck. The
passengers all rushed to the other side of the boat, thereby overturning it. This is apparently based
on a true incident reported in the =World Almanac=.

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