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To: forfar who wrote (126)	7/3/1999 1:42:00 AM
From: forfar	Respond to of 193

no one seems to have any good ideas for my teaser...so I'll give it again with the answer. A conductor is walking down the train punching tickets. When he walks up to a certain passenger, he looks down takes the ticket, and then drops it. He then pulls out a gun and shoots her dead. He is not charged with any crime. Why? The answer is long and would really take a lot of questions on your part to come up with the answer. Here goes: He recognized the woman by the hand she used to hold the ticket. She was missing her ring finger. She was his wife. Years before, while he was sleeping up stairs, she chopped off her finger and put it in the garbage disposal. Then she disappeared. (Skipped town, ya know)In the subsequent inevitable police investigation, the finger was found and the man was charged and convicted of killing his wife and "disposing" of her in the "In-sink-er-ator." After serving 20 years in prison, he got out and became a train conductor. He killed her ("the second time") because he knew that the law against double jeopardy meant that he could not be charged twice for her murder. (He had a lot of time to ponder this in jail.) like it? forrest