Solving the Crime Scene Riddle: Can You?

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Guillochon said:
A dead man and a monkey are in a room. The man is holding a lighter, wearing a tutu, covered in baking soda and glued upside-down to the far wall. The monkey is spinning rapidly while playing a rendition of Mozart on his tuba. In the room are a puddle of water, 3 strands of blonde hair, blood on the ceiling, two pitchforks, a broken television full of cottage cheese, and a bowling ball with 7 finger holes. Using this information, what is the escape velocity for an electron from a pulsar in a chaotic orbit with two companion stars in a dark matter halo?
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ForensicCrime said:
The pool of water and blood riddle is the oldest one in the book!
Well, it wasn't very old when the thread was posted... :biggrin:
 
DaveC426913 said:
An otherwise empty room, locked from the inside. On the floor is some broken glass, a puddle of water and a body. What went down here?

If its the same one I heard before...
A goldfish bowl fell off a table and broke leaving broken glass, water, and the dead body of a fish on the floor.
 
Tom Mattson said:
Here's a much less challenging one. A man was found stabbed to death. All that was found at the crime scene was the corpse, a puddle of blood, and a puddle of water. The detective claims that he can figure out the murder weapon from that information alone. What do you think it was?

ice …. shaped like a knife :rolleyes: