binzing said:
A man is found in an empty room hanged by a noose hanging from the ceiling, which is the only thing in the room other than himself at the time of discovery. How did he do it?
I know this one - I've read it before. Here's the answer:
The man was the store manager for an IKEEEA outlet that was selling defective chairs. Over the weeks since this began, thousands of angry customers demanding refunds for their broken chairs were rebuffed by this manager. Some that got to meet him in person were slapped in the face and sent home. Others received postcards with a picture of the manager himself, laughing diabolically by a pile of firewood. Some others that called in, were given directions to a "product exchange" location that turned out to be a lumber yard in a very bad part of town.
Meeting each other at an internet forum that reviews furniture, the disgruntled customers (numbering 3,421 in all) hatched a plan of revenge. They (all 3,421 of them) ambushed the manager during his drive home one day, and took him to an empty room. Once inside, they (again, yes...all 3,421 of them) attached a noose to the ceiling, and proceeded to open up an IKEEEA box containing the parts for the repeatedly faulty chair. Slowly they assembled the chair and positioned it under the noose. Then they forced the man to stand on the chair and tightened the noose around his neck.
Surely soon, the chair would break, and the manager would meet a fitting end. But after waiting for 14 days straight, nothing happened. On the fourteenth day, the manager died of starvation. The satisfied customers then extracted the chair from under him, dissembled it, stuffed the parts into the original box, picked up the 1.3 tons of trash they had generated, and left...not bothering to close the door behind them.
