Youngest person ever prosecuted for fare dodging?
I think I might know this one, even though some of the answers seem a bit off. Rather than asking the direct question, I’ll ask the bizarre one:
Are chickens involved?
Yes
No
No, but my source links an Idaho girl with chickens.
FWIW, the source I read this morning while researching chickens says the record trip is only 720 miles for Edna. It doesn’t change the riddle, though.
OK. You said she wasn’t shipped in a container, and I thought that someone had asked another question about her being sent as cargo, so I’d written that idea off, but looking back, I see that I’m not quite right. You never specifically said she wasn’t shipped as cargo.
Did someone figure out that she was small enough such that to pay for her to go as cargo was cheaper than a “person” ticket, and talk them into letting whoever was responsible for ticket sales pay that way? regardless of whether she actually rode in the mail car, or in a seat, was she technically “cargo,” and not a passenger?
Did she whine or throw a tantrum for the entire journey?
My daughter has that beat by a good couple hundred miles
I guess this is close enough, RivkahChaya.
Just stick 15 cents in stamps on your kid and send them off. Really. Edna was mailed from Florida to Virginia. While people were not technically allowed to mail their children, several did until it was specifically forbidden. Adults weighed too much, but kids were light enough to ship. Edna’s 720 miles was the farthest distance a child was mailed by the US postal service.
Nigel had an emergency of sorts. He was able to solve his emergency by calling the emergency number (999 as it so happens in this case). However, he immediately hung up after they answered, why?
Did he recognize the person that answered?
Did he think his phone didn’t work?
Did he recognize the person that answered? No
Did he think his phone didn’t work? Yes
Did he have an emergency other than thinking his phone wasn’t working?
Was it a landline?
A cell phone?
Was weather involved?
Did he have an emergency other than thinking his phone wasn’t working? Yes, an emergency of sorts.
Was it a landline? No
A cell phone? Yes
Was weather involved? Possibly, the exact nature of the emergency of sorts is not important
Was the emergency an inability to call someone?
Could he have solved his emergency by calling a non-emergency number (such as 411 directory assistance)?
Was he in physical distress of some kind?
Was he choking?
Ah, so the kid was sent through the mail, after all. The reason I asked about chickens is that, in the one case I’d heard of, the child was in a box labeled “Live chicks” (those being the one animal that can officially be posted).
Was the emergency an inability to call someone? Yes
Could he have solved his emergency by calling a non-emergency number (such as 411 directory assistance)? No
Was he in physical distress of some kind?
Was he choking?
Nigel is a contrived person who is a mix of many people that this did/could have happened to. The specific nature of the emergency is not important. See Cheesesteak’s question above
Was Nigel lost and needed to be told his location?