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Maury Maille Puzzler Tower Car Talk Plaza Hahvahd Squayah Our Fair City This Week's Puzzler: The Case of the Missing Getaway Car RAY: This is automotive in nature, but not so technical that the average person doesn't have a shot at it. The inspiration for this was sent in by someone whose name has regrettably been lost. If that person catches me, we'll send them a $26 gift certificate. Here it is: There was a bank robbery yesterday morning in Springfield. Several on-lookers saw the red Mustang speeding away from the scene of the crime, but nobody got the plate number, even though the driver had a near collision with a tanker truck and had to slam on the brakes on several occasions to avoid injuring innocent pedestrians. The Springfield police notified the authorities in the surrounding towns, hoping to catch a lucky break. The next morning, the police in a neighboring town thought they had a likely suspect. They remembered this suspect, who we'll call Bill, had a late-model Mustang that could easily have been the getaway car. And, because Bill had had a few scrapes with the law, they decided to pay him a visit. So the police show up with a search warrant, and explain the reason for their visit. Bill was shocked and angered, and denied any involvement whatsoever. "Look," he said, "I've been sick for about a week, and neither the car nor I has left the premises!" "Show us the car," they demanded. Bill led them to the garage where he kept it, and there it sat, a beautiful, practically new red Mustang, perfect paint job, 18-inch alloy wheels, leopard-skin seat covers, the whole bit. The two police officers trained their flashlights on the car, as each one of them kind of walked around it, looking for evidence. Finally, one of the officers said, "This car's clean. It wasn't involved in any robbery. I know it's been sitting here for days." What did the officer see that clears Bill and his car? Do you know? Drop us a note via http://www.cartalk.com/email/email.html If you're right and we select your answer, we'll ship you a $26 Shameless Commerce Gift Certificate. Want to listen to Raymond obfuscate the puzzler in person? Listen anytime, at http://www.cartalk.com/content/puzzler/ ************ Remember last week's puzzler? Ray's Challenge: "Equate This!" RAY: This week's puzzler is very simple. I'm going to give you four numbers: 2,3,4, and 5. And they're not Roman numerals, they're the regular old Arabic numerals with which we're all familiar. You also get a plus sign, and an equal sign. Now, make an equation, with some stuff on one side of the equal sign, and some stuff on the other. At first blush, you might say, "This is easy!" 5+2=3+4...but, you're using two plus signs, and you're only allowed to use one. What's the answer? Ready for the answer? Here you goŠ http://www.cartalk.com/content/puzzler/ So, did you figure it out? Yours in weekly puzzler torment, Maury Maille Puzzler Dissemination Specialist Car Talk Plaza ******************* Doing some car research? Via our lousy, little homepage you can... *Check important safety recalls *See what your car is worth right now *Check rebates and incentives on new cars *Search your town for new or used cars for sale *Place an ad to sell your car that'll actually be seen by people in your area *Research and compare new vehicles *Get the latest car news *Kill time until 5:00 p.m. rolls around and you can pack it in *It's all at http://www.cartalk.com *********************************** Got more time to kill? This past weekend's new, lousy Car Talk show is now on the web site, at http://www.cartalk.com/Radio/Show/ ******************** Help Ray lose the night sweats he's been getting, trying to come up with a decent puzzler each week. E-mail him your suggestion any time, via http://www.cartalk.com/email/email.html ******************** Puzzled out? You can unsubscribe to the Car Talk Puzzler Psychic Friends Network anytime at http://www.cartalk.com/ct/maillist.jsp?puzzler_list=subscribe#psychic We'll forgive you.
