The police finds the following scenario:

A man is hung up in the middle of a room (like in the movies, with a rope and stuff). The room has only one door, and no windows. There is NOTHING in the room except for the rope and some water on the floor. The room is in the middle of a desert, where nobody lives. Apart from the truck he came with, there's only 30 miles of sand to every direction of the room

The police assures that the man has been dead for a couple of hours and that no one else has been in that room for at least a couple of days. Of course, he couldn't have hung himself by jumping or doing something like that.

So how did the man actually die??

Suicide.
He bought a large block of ice on the truck.
He used the ice to stand on and rigged up the noose.
He either jumped or slipped or (I find this hard to believe) waited for the ice to melt.
When he had nothing to stand on he would have been strangled by the noose.
The ice melted hence the water on the floor!

Posted by mr wray on 2003-06-02 04:02:37