A riddle has me stumped!

[911motorsport]

From my son (9) and I'm stuck

One day a 3O story building was on fire. A man jumped out of a window. There was nothing under him or holding him up but nothing happened to him. how is this possible???

[dougc]

He was on the ground floor of the 30 storey building.

[anonymous-user]

911motorsport said:

From my son (9) and I'm stuck

One day a 3O story building was on fire. A man jumped out of a window. There was nothing under him or holding him up but nothing happened to him. how is this possible???

He was on the ground floor!

[Superhoop1904]

Ground floor??



ETA: Beaten to it twice

Edited by Superhoop1904 on Monday 14th September 15:57

[Neil_H]

He wasn't actually in the building that was on fire.

[anonymous-user]

911motorsport said:

My son is way cleverer than wot I is

[John MacK]

911motorsport said:

From my son (9) and I'm stuck

One day a 3O story building was on fire. A man jumped out of a window. There was nothing under him or holding him up but nothing happened to him. how is this possible???

Why the capital O and not a 0 ?

Did he jump from a ground floor window?

Was the window in the burning building?

What do you mean by "nothing under him"?

[911motorsport]

Sorry, yes he was in the building, and he was on the 30th floor. 'nothing underneath him' means there was no crash pad or suchlike to land on when he jumped.

[rhinochopig]

O/P the response is to spank him - spank him hard. You may not be able to best him in a battle of wits, but you can sure as hell beat him in the physical stakes.

That'll teach him to mess with you.

[anonymous-user]

In that case he was wearing a parachute!

[jammy_basturd]

Are we assuming that the 1st/ground floor is at ground level?

[anonymous-user]

rhinochopig said:

O/P the response is to spank him - spank him hard. You may not be able to best him in a battle of wits, but you can sure as hell beat him in the physical stakes.

That'll teach him to mess with you.

Very true!

[wombat172a]

He jumped through a simple internal window, and the fire was just a chip-pan fire that was extinguished soon after.

[DrTre]

He was Superman and the building was the Daily Planet.

[911motorsport]

garyhun said:

In that case he was wearing a parachute!

One day a 3O story building was on fire. A man jumped out of a window. There was nothing under him or holding him up but nothing happened to him. how is this possible???

[Menguin]

It was the reigonal headquarters of one of the UKs major double glazing firms. The man jumped out of one of the windows that were lying around in the office on a different day to the day that the office was on fire.

Also, he was the Launa man, and the Launa man can.

[DIW35]

It was all a dream.

[anonymous-user]

911motorsport said:

garyhun said:

In that case he was wearing a parachute!

One day a 3O story building was on fire. A man jumped out of a window. There was nothing under him or holding him up but nothing happened to him. how is this possible???

I don't see a parachute as holding him up. It's actually letting him down slowly!

[king arthur]

It was a window on an internal wall?

[robinhood21]

Nothing happened because it was only a story.