Lateral Thinking Puzzles. Let's do it again!

Did the man have a relevant conversation with someone in the bar?

Did he have an idea?

Did he invent something?

reply to Zyada:

Did this action happen in the main bar area? Yes The restrooms? No Employee only areas? No

Was the action that he left something? No Took something? No

reply to Folly:

Did the man have a relevant conversation with someone in the bar? Yes

Did he have an idea? No

Did he invent something? No

Did he change the state of something in a way that it remained changed until the outage?

reply to Aspidistra:

Did he change the state of something in a way that it remained changed until the outage?

No

Did the person with whom the relevant conversation was had do something related to the power outage?

reply to Folly:

Did the person with whom the relevant conversation was had do something related to the power outage?

No

Was the person with whom he had the conversation an employee of the bar?

reply to Aspidistra:

Was the person with whom he had the conversation an employee of the bar?

No

I sort of change my mind on this answer. In one way no, but I suppose in an indirect way you could argue yes.

Did the conversation involve the transfer of relevant information from the man to the other person? From the other person to the man?

Was the power outage caused by an overloaded system? By a mechanical fault? By human action?

reply to Aspidistra:

Did the conversation involve the transfer of relevant information from the man to the other person? From the other person to the man? From the other to the man.

Was the power outage caused by an overloaded system? Not sure By a mechanical fault? Not Sure. By human action?Yes

Did the man who walked into the bar later do something that caused a power outage?

Did he do this because of what the person he had the conversation with had said?

Did he intentionally cause the power outage?

reply to Aspidistra,:

Did the man who walked into the bar later do something that caused a power outage? Yes

Did he do this because of what the person he had the conversation with had said? Yes

Did he intentionally cause the power outage?
No

Was the person he had the conversation with employed by the power company?

Did he in any way misunderstand what the person said to him?

Was the action he took, that caused the power outage, intended to have a particular result?

Did it have that result?

Did the power outage cover more than a block? A whole city?

Is the country relevant? Is the approximate year relevant?

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

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reply to Aspidistra:

Was the person he had the conversation with employed by the power company? No

Did he in any way misunderstand what the person said to him? No

Was the action he took, that caused the power outage, intended to have a particular result? Unsure. It is murky.

Did it have that result? Open to conjecture

Did the power outage cover more than a block? Yes A whole city? Yes

Is the country relevant? Yes Is the approximate year relevant? No

Did the person he had the conversation with intend for the man to cause a power outage?

Does the relevance of the country relate to;
local culture?
technological advancement?
climate?

reply to Cheesesteak:

Did the person he had the conversation with intend for the man to cause a power outage? No

Does the relevance of the country relate to;
local culture? Somewhat
technological advancement? No
climate? No

Did the man commit suicide in a way that caused the power outage?

reply to Gyrate:

Did the man commit suicide in a way that caused the power outage?

No