A riddle: man jumps off a balcony

[jonny jeez]

No, all the doors open at the same time!

Ah, but he arrived quicker.

many things can stop him disembarking quicker...queues of pensioners, heavy luggage, falling asleep.

but his arrival was quicker.

 

[classic33]

You didn't die, as given in the records.

Cause of death, heart failure. Which is why they stopped the operation.

 

[classic33]

So...jumping caused his death not the bullet?

Had he not jumped, he'd not have reached terminal velocity. Therefore jumping didn't kill him. Nor did falling.

 

[classic33]

Ah, but he arrived quicker.

many things can stop him disembarking quicker...queues of pensioners, heavy luggage, falling asleep.

but his arrival was quicker.

His & the trains arrival at the station were the same. Was the station the final destination though?

 

[User33236]

Hang on, is this one of those observational, Lateral thiinking things.

The guy wrote a note expressing a wish to kill himself.

But jumping off the building is not mentioned as a means to this end. He could have been a base jumper, wishing to die at some point, just not that day. Whilst base jumping, he realises that things are worth living for and writes a note to disqualify his previous note.

Then he is shot by a "stray" bullet...perhaps not a stray, Perhaps the shooter was carrying out the base jumpers wish to die and, that the latter note was due to be dispatched to the shooter to cancel the "hit".

Or perhaps the shooter had to kill the guy to gain some advantage, like inheritance which would only pass to him if the jumper was pronounced to have died whilst not being of sound mind...was the tower an lunatic asylum...having received a note confirming the intention to die, whilst sane, this would scupper the shooters plans.

death is always certain at all times....as is tax, so this statement, whilst made after the event of jumping, has no direct connection to the jump itself.

Or was our Jumper actually a professional stuntman, albeit a suicidal one, who was planning on killing himself later that day but was killed on the job instead

I guess we'll have to wait for the results of the police investigation lol.

 

[ClichéGuevara]

No, all the doors open at the same time!

But not necessarily all over the platform.

We were on a train when the guard made a request over the tannoy for anyone wanting to leave the train at the next station to move to the front of the train, as the station only had a small platform.

Two or three dozen people duly obliged, only to find you the train was coupled in the middle with two driver cabs nose to nose, so you couldn't get all the way along and you couldn't leave the train , as there was no platform, or even access to it fro where we were even if the doors could have been opened.

To add to the sense of the ridiculous, the announcer was sat in the rear of these cabs, staring at the empty one in front of him. Some passengers said they'd been getting on the front ones, and he moved them to the carriages at the back.

He still insisted it was the passengers fault, before locking himself in the cab. It didn't bother us, as we were on a pub crawl, and by chance, the station we could get off at had better pubs, but it apparently caused some people to miss their connections.

 

[ClichéGuevara]

Cause of death, heart failure. Which is why they stopped the operation.

Did your life insurance pay out?

 

[classic33]

Did your life insurance pay out?

Not yet!
I'm thinking of making myself sole beneficiery though.

 

[ClichéGuevara]

Not yet!
I'm thinking of making myself sole beneficiery though.

Insurance companies always find a loop hole. You should explain that you're the living proof of your death. It's hard to argue with an expert eye witness.

 

[Paulus]

Ah, but he arrived quicker.

many things can stop him disembarking quicker...queues of pensioners, heavy luggage, falling asleep.

but his arrival was quicker.

What if the train had slam door stock, they can and do get opened by passengers at different times??

 

[subaqua]

He was maybe testing the theory that jumping from great heights isn't fatal.

Could she hear him saying 'so far so good'?

jumping out isn't , usually
neither is the fall ,usually

its that sudden stop at the bottom - that's the killer

 

[postman]

Also jumping out of windows is such a pain.Was it windows 10 by any chance.

 

[midlife]

Also jumping out of windows is such a pain.Was it windows 10 by any chance.

It was a slow death by a likely unknown viral infection Windows ME. Ta da!

Shaun

 

[classic33]

jumping out isn't , usually
neither is the fall ,usually

its that sudden stop at the bottom - that's the killer

As said

Had he not jumped, he'd not have reached terminal velocity. Therefore jumping didn't kill him. Nor did falling.

Maybe it was the bullet!

 

[winjim]

Did I miss a terminal velocity joke somewhere?