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Maury Maille Puzzler Tower Car Talk Plaza Hahvahd Squayah Our Fair City This Week's Puzzler: How Does Pork Chop Boy Drive To Work? RAY: The inspiration for this puzzler was sent in by Warner Grenady. Of course, I had to add some obfuscatory details, and I personalized it a little bit. Some of you might remember our nephew Matt, whom we called "Pork Chop Boy," because his social life was so bad, he had to tie a pork chop around his neck even to get the dog to play with him. Anyway, some years ago he dislocated his right shoulder playing chess. It was "strip chess" actually, but, we don't have to go into that. His shoulder hurt so much that he couldn't move the shifter on his automatic transmission. He tried to reach over and shift with the other hand, but twisting in the seat hurt even more. But, Pork Chop Boy needed to drive to work every day, and he didn't have any way to get there. Tommy said, "No problem. You can use my car." He did, and he had no problem driving Tommy's car to work-- yet, he couldn't shift his own automatic transmission car. The question is, which one of Tommy's jalopies did Matt use to get to work, and why? So, think 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? 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. This suspect, who we'll call Bill, they remembered 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 or 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? 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 ******************* USEFUL INFORMATION ALERT: Tired of paying auto club dues to an outfit that lobbies against environmental causes? Check out Better World Club. They're an auto club with genuinely decent values-- unlike some others we could name... whose initials happen to be AAA. Better World Club cares about... *Your environmental interests--they give 1% of their revenue to environmental clean up and advocacy. *Your consumer interests. They even have discounts on hybrid rental cars. *And, they have the nation's only bicycle roadside assistance program. Dump your AAA membership and join Better World! If you join via the Car Talk web site, they'll even give you an extra month's membership. Check them out now 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.
