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4003

Ok, what I was kind of going for was some version of “the murder and the escape were unrelated since the escape was from the second time in his life he was banged up indefinitely”, but I think we’re basically there.

George Harsh, tunnel-security dude for the Great Escape was on his second go of getting out of incarceration before his time. He got out of his murder incarceration by (according to his account) saving a fellow-prisoner’s life with an emergency appendectomy. He did not actually get the opportunity to escape, having been already transferred out of camp on the grounds of … being suspected of an escape attempt. Given that there was a fatality rate of around 65% for the actual escapees this probably makes him the world’s luckiest stone-cold killer, particularly since the very first thing in this story he escaped was a death sentence for the original murder (in his own later words, “I was guilty as hell. I should have swung”)

4004

A man walks into a bar. Later there is a massive power outage. Why?

4005

Was it an iron bar?

Is this the NorthEast Blackout of 1965? (something I only heard about in an episode of Quantum Leap)

4006

No to all

4007

Let’s try this again.

reply to Peter_Morris:

Was it an iron bar?

Is this the NorthEast Blackout of 1965? (something I only heard about in an episode of Quantum Leap)

No to all

4008

Would the outage have happened if the man did not go to the bar?

Could the outage have been prevented if the man was in some other place instead of the bar?

Was the man still in the bar when the outage happened?

4009

reply to Aspidistra:

Would the outage have happened if the man did not go to the bar? No,I don’t think so

Could the outage have been prevented if the man was in some other place instead of the bar? Yes. I think so.

Was the man still in the bar when the outage happened? No

4010

Did some action he took while in the bar lead to the outage?

Is the man’s job relevant?

Was the outage more than an hour after the man left the bar? More than a day?

4011

reply to Aspidistra:

Did some action he took while in the bar lead to the outage? Yes, eventually.

Is the man’s job relevant? No

Was the outage more than an hour after the man left the bar? Yes More than a day? Yes

4012

Did the man’s action in the bar ultimately lead to an electrical fault?

Was this intentional?

Did the action cause a liquid to go where it shouldn’t?

4013

reply to Aspidistra:

Did the man’s action in the bar ultimately lead to an electrical fault? Yes. I guess so.

Was this intentional? No

Did the action cause a liquid to go where it shouldn’t?
No.

4014

Did the man play a video game or some kind of electronic amusement that had to do with the eventual blackout?

Was the guy a serviceman? If so, was he supposed to repair something in the bar?

4015

How much time after? More than a month? A year? A decade?

4016

No to all

4017

Certainly less than a month.

4018

Were the man’s actions in the bar drinking?

4019

reply to Folly:

Were the man’s actions in the bar drinking?

I imagine there was some drinking.

4020

Was the some drinking the “action in the bar [that] ultimately lead to an electrical fault” or was there an additional action in the bar that did that.

4021

reply to Folly:

Was the some drinking the “action in the bar [that] ultimately lead to an electrical fault” or was there an additional action in the bar that did that.

Additional

4022

Did this action happen in the main bar area? The restrooms? Employee only areas?

Was the action that he left something? Took something?