Now here is one that should not give you too much trouble; at least it did not give me any. But then again, I am of course...me.
It involved an escape from a holding cell by a crook named Benny. After he was arrested for another of his petty larcenies, they put him in a room in the detention center downtown and more or less forgot about him. Now the windows in this particular room were not very well reinforced: this was not a cell really but only a hearing room. No one gave this a second thought because Benny wasn’t too bright. They never figured that he might even try to escape.
Sure enough, when they came in the next morning, the window was broken and Benny was gone. Now I just so happened to be in the building solving another problem when and I overheard the commotion and asked to be relocated there. After some simple analysis, I found out that the janitor had pushed his cleaning cart near the holding room that night and that a piece of rope was missing from it.
But here’s the problem...the rope in question was thick and short. A hefty piece of cable, but only about fifteen feet long. But the drop to the ground from the window was 35 feet! Had Benny jumped the 20-foot gap? I don’t think so. He was stupid but not foolhardy.
How do you think he actually pulled off the stunt?
Nano Solution_____________________________________________
“It was all a ruse! He hadn’t actually escaped but was hiding under the table...” you begin but Nano cuts you off with the speed of a barber.
“Sorry, “ he says, “but I’ve heard it all before. So let me get to the point. Cable is made of twisted strands of rope. Benny uncoiled it so he wound up with two pieces that he tied together to make a 30-foot long piece. Then he only had to jump 5 feet.”
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