Wednesday, July 22, 2009

July 23: There are parts of this question that seem awfully familiar...

You're walking down the street when a stranger offers you some cheesecake from his coat pocket. You are tempted, but refuse due to your religous beliefs. The stranger gets really offended and starts chasing you with an axe. The ordeal turns into a Jason Bourne style rooftop to rooftop chase and after one particularly long jump you break your leg. The axe murderer is close. You have two hopes of survival and do some quick math. If you try to get up and run you have a 10% chance of survival, but this will be excruciatingly painful due to your affliction. Permanent damage is likely. If you stay and attempt to fight back without moving, your chances are 7.3%. What do you do?

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Yahoo! Answers:


I would just stand there and allow him/her to kill me...... However i would request that he/she made my death extra slow and painful!
(Well that doesn't make much sense. But then, when do we ever expect otherwise here?)

i will say sorry and ask the stranger for the cheese cake. there will be 50% of survival chance. he may kill me 50% chance. or give the cake and leave me alone another 50%. and i will eat it. and ask God to forgive me [if I shouldn't have eaten it for religious beliefs. God will forgive at this crucial moment].

I'd stay and fight back because he is mentally deranged!
I'd make sure I am on the edge of the roof and when he jumps onto my roof I would stop him from landing then he falls to his death! Or if he was on the same roof as me I'd edge him over to the side of the roof, then duck down when he swings the axe so he looses his balance and falls off the roof to his death!
There is no escape for the axe murderer if he is trying to kill me! lol!
(None of those things were options.)

I'll say,"I love cheesecakes, really." or I'll kick him in the groin and shove the axe in his ***.
(Um... ouch.)

desert lent
can't get it exactly
(It took me forever to figure this one out. I kept looking at that going, "What does the desert have to do with anything?" I mean, people make some pretty big topical leaps in their answers, but usually there is some noticeable connection. And then I realized: "Oh... He meant dessert!" I should have known from his second line there that something like that had happened.)

axe him to stop >> lol
(I really hope he kills you.)

Umm let's see...
I see a stranger trying to offer me something. Run.
Problem solved.
(But you see, you've already refused. That stuff I described wasn't theoretical. It already happened. So unless you have a time machine, you better think of something quick.)

wheres the other choices? you mean i cant talk my way out of it. Geeze, i guess i would run.
(No. Talking doesn't work. Axe murderers are very irrational people. Especially when they possess cheesecake.)

I would just eat the damn cheesecake and then go antiquing with him.
(Your mother never taught you not to go antiquing with strangers?)

run at lest i'll be alive to see another day even if i cant walk
(That's not what the odds say.)

call the police or shoot him with my gun or eat his cheese cake
(If you had a gun, don't you think I would have mentioned it? I mean, that would make things a lot easier.)

i take the damn cheesecake then pretend to eat it but when he walsk away i put it in my pocket unti i find a trashcan

I would probably stick and fight since im pretty strong so it will probably raise my chances of beating him by atleast.. o lets see 22.3547% according to my calculations. And I wouldnt have to deal with the excruciatinging pain from running.
(Your calculation's off. You forgot to account for the fact that your leg is broken, so the decimal point is in the wrong place. It's .223547%. It is in these critical times when you will regret ever asking the question "When am I ever going to use this crap?" Kids, stay in school.)

eat the cheesecake
(God is going to strike you cheesecake-eating fools down.)

Wake up. It's only a dream?
(I'm getting real tired of this answer.)

Yikes ! Someone already gave the answer, although I would have said:
EAT THE CHEESECAKE, POCKET LINT AND ALL
(That is both blasphemous and unsanitary.)

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