Lateral thinking puzzles

[Emma]

I LOVE doing these things.. thought 'y'all' might like to try some too...

First one...

How can a man riding a bike 15mph pass 3 cars going 35mph???

 

[Yaps]

traveling oppisite directions??

 

[Emma]

Well done Yaps!! That one was too easy wasnt it. LOL

I'll try another...

An American, who had never been to any country other than the US, stands on solid ground and looks at the Indian Ocean. How?

 

[Christian]

Looking down from the moon?

 

[Emma]

And well done Christian!
I need to make them harder don't I! LOL

My thunder comes before the lightning;
My lightning comes before the clouds;
My rain dries all the land it touches.
What am I?

 

[PJmomrunner]

How about a volcano?

 

[Emma]

Well done!!

Got to run out now but I'll do another one when I get back. Good to make y'all think!! lol

Emma
xxx

 

[Emma]

A horse jumps over a tower and lands on a man, who disappears. What happened to the man?

 

[tommy]

Were the tower and man shadows?

 

[Mary]

We're playing chess and the man's a pawn.

 

[Emma]

Well done Mary!!

I have more...

A man wakes up one night to get some water. He turns off the light and goes back to bed. The next morning he looks out the window, screams, and kills himself.

 

[momshell7]

A man wakes up one night to get some water. He turns off the light and goes back to bed. The next morning he looks out the window, screams, and kills himself.

Ok I can't take it any more!! What's the answer? I am to dumb to figure it out!

 

[geebee]

Emma,

I know the answer to this one because of a college class I took so I will refrain from giving the answer (not an easy one, guys). However, I will share the answer I came up with in the class which got me an A for effort.

The man left the water running when he went back to bed. When he woke he realized the water had caused the bathroom ceiling to fall into the shower below, killing his wife. When he looked out the window, he saw the life squad, who had brought his wife outside onto the front lawn to try and revive her but were unable to do so. He was so despondent (sp?) that he screamed and killed himself.

 

[Gemma]

Does he wake up 12 hours later than he thinks it is, so it's actually night and therefore dark outside, and he thinks he's gone blind so shoots himself because he can't face living life as a blind person?

 

[momshell7]

So what is the answer???? Please tell me!! I can't figure it out!!

 

[William]

Does anyone know where I can find a single ended stick or a box of straight hooks?

 

[Mary]

Ok Emma,
Answer the last one and put a new one out. Pleazzzzzzzzzzz!

 

[tommy]

William,

Next to the left-handed smoke shifter and sky hook.

 

[Emma]

OOPS Sorry! Forgot I'd posted them and not answered for you! LOL

The man who killed himself after switching the light off (sorry - dont know how to do those little blue quote box thingys) was a lighthouse keeper!! hehehehe

Next...

Bob and Carol and Ted and Alice all live in the same house. Bob
and Carol go out to a movie, and when they return, Alice is lying dead
on the floor in a puddle of water and glass. It is obvious that Ted
killed her but Ted is not prosecuted or severely punished.

 

[Mary]

Alice is a fish (broken aquarium bowl) and Ted is the cat who knocked the bowl over.