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Heberto Calderon
My major issue with lateral thinking puzzles is not that they don't give you enough information to find the answer. It's the fact that they give you plenty of information - making it extremely easy to come up with a perfectly plausible solution which fits all the known facts perfectly but nevertheless is wrong. I mean, standing on a block of ice to hang yourself? Why? WHY? Does that make sense? What if there was just a water leak or something? "He takes the stairs up twenty floors to work every morning, but takes the lift down again." What if he's not a midget, he just likes the exercise? Surely a midget would ask somebody else to press the button for him?
"Thinking laterally" means to me that you should try methods of attack which don't seem immediately obvious. Such as Occam's Razor. Here are some answers which I used lateral thinking to come up with.
The proper answer: The man had been in the Navy, and was shipwrecked on an island with his crewmates. Some died of starvation, but the captain kept the rest alive by feeding them what he said was "albatross soup." When the man discovered how different the restaurant's albatross soup tasted, he knew he had really been eating his dead shipmates, and he killed himself out of guilt.
The proper answer: The man was a radio DJ who had gotten himself in trouble with the Mob (or any threatening group). He had put on an old recording of his show so his pursuers would think he was at work, and was attempting to skip town while the ringer show was broadcasting. However, he was listening to the show in his car, and heard the record start to skip (reel-to-reel go wobbly, CD do whatever it is CDs do when they mess up... pick one), and he knew his antagonists would catch on and come looking for him. He killed himself preemptively. (People commit suicide easily in these stories.)
The proper answer: The man was a blind midget, and was part of a sideshow act, billed as "The World's Shortest Man." The other midget travelling with the sideshow was seized with professional jealousy because this man was shorter than he. He contrived to saw small pieces, one every week or so, from the bottom of the blind man's cane. The World's Shortest Man noticed that his cane felt too short, and became convinced he was growing. He killed himself rather than lose his job, or possibly out of shame.
The proper answer: The man was also in the Navy, probably with the guy from Albatross Soup. He was also shipwrecked, and spent several weeks in a lifeboat with two shipmates, one of whom was a doctor. After their food ran out, and they were desperate, they decided to have the doctor amputate their arms so they could have something to eat... but of course, he couldn't amputate his own arm, and they weren't so keen on letting him get away scott free. They came to an agreement: They would remove and eat one arm from each person besides the doctor, as long as he agreed to have his own arm removed when they were rescued. It was the doctor's arm in the package; he sent it to both of the others so they could verify that he held up his end of the deal. (A variant of this puzzle has one shipmate running into the doctor in a subway, then shooting him because he notices him holding the pole with his supposedly-amputated arm... the doctor had paid off a drifter to let him remove his arm, and sent that arm to the others.)
The proper answer: The man has been fishing and caught a huge fish. He took fish, pole and gear into the phone booth to call a friend about his success. While he was saying "I caught a fish THIS BIG!" and doing the accompanying gesture, he put his hands through the sides of the phone booth and cut his wrists on the broken glass.
The proper answer: The man is blind, and is swimming in the harbor. When it's time for him to come in, his wife is supposed to ring a bell to let him know which way to swim to get to shore. However, a buoy bell tolls first, and the man, thinking it was his wife's signal, swims out towards the buoy. He becomes exhausted and drowns.
The proper answer: The man is a lighthouse keeper, and the light he turned off was the one on top of the lighthouse. In the morning he sees that an ocean liner has crashed into the rocks, killing everyone aboard. He kills himself out of guilt.
The proper answer: The man was going in for an MRI, because he thought he might have a brain tumor. However, unbeknownst to him, a doctor had left a metal instrument inside him during an earlier surgery (let's say a stomach operation). The MRI's powerful magnet ripped the instrument out of his abdomen.
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I live in a small block of flats by the sea and the residents have sought the advice of a sea gull removing service who recommend the removal of these birds nests in every season. I am not happy with this, least because I am sure it is against the law but that it is not the right thing to do. Is there another way these birds can be less inclined to want to nest there than to remove their nests?
Welcome to the forums, Gull. The legal ins and outs of gull nest - or chick, heaven forbid - removal are quite complex, and the fact that the law is different for the two regular roof nesting species, the herring and lesser black-backed gull, whose chicks look practically identical, makes it even more difficult to 'do' anything about roof-nesting gulls and being certain that the actions stay within the law. Any other gull species is fully protected, and since there is no option in the law to remove their nests, correct identification of the birds is crucial.
However it sometimes looks in urban and suburban areas, gull numbers are declining in the UK - so much so that herring gull is now red-listed with somewhere around 60% population decline, and all other gull species are amber listed because of somewhat smaller but still worrying levels of population decline. Any action that prevents a bird from nesting and producing young in any one season will contribute to further declines in the species. Yes, roof-nesting gulls can be a big nuisance in some situations (more so for some people than others, which is an added complexity in the issue), but there are ways and means of preventing gulls from nesting on roofs where conflict can occur in the first place rather than allowing them to choose their nesting site and then have the nests destroyed. The best deterrent is dependent on the physical size, shape etc of the site, and advice can be sought from companies that specialise in bird deterrents, and from the local council who should also be able to advice on deterrents.
Those clauses in the Wildlife and Countryside Act that allow gull nests removed to protect public health do also stipulate that such methods can only be used if non-lethal methods have been tried and failed, and that the threat to public health is great enough to warrant such extreme action. It also needs to be pointed out that nuisance and damage to property are not legal reasons for nest removal or killing of chicks or adults. The only reason is public health, and even there, a specific one-off licence from Defra or one of the devolved environment departments is needed before lethal action can be resorted to, especially if killing of chicks and/or adult herring gulls is proposed. Anyone wanting to kill gulls of any age or remove nests needs to consult the specific terms and conditions of the Wildlife and Countryside Act licences before doing anything in order to ensure that any action taken is legal, and preferably also consulting the statutory conservation agency for further advice.
Trochilus said:Welcome to the forums, Gull. The legal ins and outs of gull nest - or chick, heaven forbid - removal are quite complex, and the fact that the law is different for the two regular roof nesting species, the herring and lesser black-backed gull, whose chicks look practically identical, makes it even more difficult to 'do' anything about roof-nesting gulls and being certain that the actions stay within the law. Any other gull species is fully protected, and since there is no option in the law to remove their nests, correct identification of the birds is crucial.