No.
You got it! [He later toured with Ringling Bros. Circus as “the Most Marvelous Man in the World.” Over 30,000 died in the city when Pelee erupted in 1902. That was literally everybody in St Pierre.
Everybody but “Luey.”](Redirect Notice)
Because he was in a sealed prison, he lived. Rescuers found him afterwards while combing through the wreckage of the disaster.
**A girl shot her father with a shotgun even though she had no grievance with him. After an investigation, she spent a few years in a reform school while her mother received 10-25 years in prison. Why?
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I’ve had this one for awhile. I didn’t do it already, did I?
Did the mother replace an expected empty chamber (or one filled with blanks) with live ammo? (cf. The Ronald Opus urban legend.)
No.
Did the mother trick the girl in some way?
Did the mother mean for the father to get shot?
Were the father and mother married?
Did the girl know she was pointing a shotgun at her father?
Did the girl know she was pointing a shotgun at anyone?
Did the girl expect it when the shotgun fired?
Did the shotgun fire regular ammunition? (slug or shot)
- Did the girl fire the shotgun at what turned out to be her father because she thought she, or someone else, was in danger?
Let’s start with the obvious.
Did her father die as a result of the shot?
Was her mother imprisoned for murder?
Was her mother imprisoned for assault?
Does the phrase “shot her father with a shotgun” mean that the girl used the shotgun to shoot her father?
Does the phrase “shot her father with a shotgun” mean that the father had a shotgun at the time the girl shot him?
And now for some more in-depth:
Did the girl know that she was shooting at her father?
Did the girl know what the effect of shooting her father would be?
Did the mother know what the effect of the girl shooting her father would be?
Did the mother have malice aforethought towards the father?
Did the girl have malice aforethought towards the father?
- Yes.
- Yes.
- Yes.
- Yes.
- Yes.
- Yes.
- Yes.
No.
- Did the girl expect that her father would suffer injury from being hit?
Did the mother expect her daughter to be charged with murder?
Is the age of the daughter important?
Did the daughter think she was protecting someone when she shot the gun?
Did the daughter think she had some other good reason to kill her father?
Yes.
- No.
- Yes.
- No.
- Yes.
Could the girl see her father when she shot him?
Was the father made to look different than he usually looked?
Did the Mother tell the girl the gun was loaded with blanks in an effort to have her husband killed?
1.Was the girl mentally disabled in some way for her age?
2. Was the girl eight years old or less? 9 years old or less? (Can we just pretend all the years are listed and you just tell us her age?)
Did the mother lie to the girl about the father?
Is discovering the nature of that lie the secret of the riddle?
Was the girl 1 to 6 years old? 7 to 10? 11 to 16? Older than 16?
Did the girl believe that, for some reason, her father needed to die?
Did she arrive at such a belief as a result of misinformation from her mother?
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Yes.
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No.
No.
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No.
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No. She was 15.
- Yes.
- Yes.
3 15 years old.
- Yes.
- Yes.
Is the lie that the father was a bad person?
Is the lie that the father was something supernatural?
Is the lie that the father had done something wrong?
Is the lie that someone else wanted the father dead?
Is the lie related to the father’s profession?
Is the lie related to the father’s health?
Is the lie related to the father’s supposed desire to die?
Is the lie that shooting the father’s death was supposed to lead to something good for the daughter and/or mother?
Is the lie that the father’s death would be good for society?