Well my teacher gave me one in class today for a grade and I haven't had any success in figuring it out. Well, here it is: Although the woman deliberately jumped from the top of the tallest building in town, she was neither injured nor killed by the fall. How can that be?
2007-06-21 04:43:35 · 4 answers · asked by Young B 1 in Education & Reference ➔ Trivia
On the assumption that she did actually jump from the building:
It could be a small building but still taller than any other.
She may have jumped onto a balcony below
She may have had a parachute
She may have been hang gliding
She may have jumped in the pool.
It may have been a model town
A red herring is a false train designed to lead you away from the answer. You naturally think that the building is very high but that is not the evidence. All you know is that it's taller than any others. Any of the answers above could be true.
2007-06-22 08:52:21 · answer #1 · answered by quatt47 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The term comes from the sport of fox hunting in which a dried, smoked herring, which is red in color, is dragged across the trail of the fox to throw the hounds off the scent.
A "red herring" argument is one which distracts from the issue in question through the introduction of some irrelevancy.
It is a false clue.
In the case you cite the red herring is the fact that it was the tallest building in town. That building may be only one story high, and still be the tallest.
2007-06-21 12:22:19 · answer #2 · answered by Wordsmythe 3 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Maybe she jumped straight up, and landed back on the roof of the building again?
Or maybe the tallest building in town was only 5 feet high?
2007-06-21 11:55:46 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The building wasn't very tall, and/or she jumped onto something else. Maybe she jumped UP. Or maybe she died of something else on the way down. Maybe she was a stunt person in a movie.
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2007-06-21 15:07:12 · answer #4 · answered by Peggy Sue 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋