The thieves in the Gold International job must have thought they were being terribly clever. They had highjacked one of the armored cars, tossed out the guard and driver, and driven off before anyone knew what was going on. Their haul that day was one million dollars, stashed inside a safe.
Rather than waste time opening the safe, they buried it with the money inside on an island 100 yards out in the middle of Lake Idyll. In order to do that, they had to abandon the truck on the shore of the lake, then paddle off to safety in a tiny inflatable boat, planning to return weeks later to open the safe when things cooled down.
But the cops got lucky. A helicopter pilot looking for the missing truck spotted the inflatable and noticed that there was no fishing gear on board. So the cops picked up the thieves who eventually told them where the safe could be found. That left only one question. A minor one, to be sure, but it was still braintwiddling enough.
How did the thieves get the heavy metal safe from the truck on the shore to the island 100 yards in the middle of the lake? It was much too heavy to float across in the inflatable.
The thieves weren’t talking so the cops were stumped. But by taking a very simple course of action, I solved the problem.
What did I do?
Nano Solution_____________________________________________
“Was it one of those new-fangled floating safes?” you ask.
“No such animal,” Nano says. “All I had to do to solve this one was wait.”
“For what?”
“Low tide. At which point there was a very helpful land bridge all the way to the island which the thieves used to drive the truck there and back!”
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