I want to throw a plot at you, and I want you to try to put it together.

Imagine, your uncle & aunt, very normal citizens, by this I mean, both work, they have 3 kids. The first child is older, married with children. The second is in his early 20's. The third is 18. Your uncle goes to the bar every night, has a couple beers but ALWAYS comes home. He is a very family oriented person. He never goes out, and does not come home. The type of guy who does not get involved with the wrong people either.

It is saturday afternoon, you a phone call from your aunt. Saying her husband(your uncle), that your uncle has not been home since thursday afternoon. Your aunt received a phone call from your uncle, thursday night while he was at the bar, saying he would be home in about 2 hours(the man does not lie). She then tells you that he has been using Crack-Cocaine recently, behind her back, and she just found out wednesday(before the phone call). she tells you some lady of african-american descent has been bringing him into the bad parts of the city to get crack. With no word at all from her husband since thursday night, she calls the police and calls relatives. This is very unusual to her, they have been married for 30 years, and he has never gone anywhere without telling her where he would be.

A day passes, and the police have no leads, your family searches all over the place. He is no where to be found.

It is now sunday, currently no word from him. She called the credit card company, to see if any transactions were made. There were 4 transactions made on saturday, in the worst neighboorhood in the city, where no white man would ever go, in fear of his life. There was $560 transaction made at a shoe store, and two more minutes afterwards in smaller dominators. The police went to the stores, it was not your uncle using the card, it was a younger black male, as shown on camera. Aparently your uncle was in the bad part of the city buying crack-cocaine sometime between thursday-sunday. Otherwise his card would be used within that area of the city, if he was not in the area. His car is also missing, and is no where to be found.

Your uncle is still missing, and no word as of yet. Here is your selections, to chose from.

1: He was murdered, the car was stolen taken to a chop shop etc. The people who commited the act stole his wallet as well.

2: He was robbed, and his car was stolen, he is wondering the streets all high on drugs.

3: He is in a crack house, and gave the crack dealer his credit card in exchange for drugs.

4: He ran off with another women.

5: He got to high on drugs, and his heart or other vital organ failed.

6: He deceided he needed to get away from things and left town for a while.


If you can figure it out, I give you alot of credit!

Number one seems too obvious.
So I will have to go with number 3!

That is my final answer.

(Edit: typed in wrong number)

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I say this loving concerned husband has decided that he can't live without the crack and the afro-american woman. He's gone back to her place and her son by another man has stolen his wallet and used his cards to buy some Nike trainers and some booze while the guy's out of it.
He was "safe" in the bad parts of town because "some lady of african-american descent has been bringing him into the bad parts of the city to get crack", ie he has been buying and he's been accompanied.
Tell your auntie to forget him he's a jerk and deserves all that is coming to him.



Back to reality - I'm just a frustrated writer! ;)

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Number 3.

Will the correct answer be posted?

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This story sadly just seems to familure to me.

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3

1: He was murdered, the car was stolen taken to a chop shop etc. The people who commited the act stole his wallet as well.
This is possible, but he was escorted by this african-american woman. Chances are she'd protect him (I'm assuming he's her customer) unless he really ruffled some feathers.

2: He was robbed, and his car was stolen, he is wondering the streets all high on drugs.
Since thursday? Chances are, if #5 didn't happen, he sobered up _enough_ to call home or a friend/relative. Roaming the streets in a neighborhood like that for 4 or so days w/o contacting anyone is not a likely situation. I am basing this assumption on what was stated about his character: family-oriented, doesn't lie (cheat), never goes out and does not come home (indicating he values relative and friend emotions). I'd rule this one out, except in the case of #5 ...

3: He is in a crack house, and gave the crack dealer his credit card in exchange for drugs.
He would have no reason to not come home in this case. He'd hand over the CC and leave with the contraband. Something else had to happen if this is true.

4: He ran off with another women.
Given his character profile, I highly doubt this one.

5: He got to high on drugs, and his heart or other vital organ failed.
If murder wasn't so popular in those areas, this would be my first guess. However, it'll remain my second. It's possible that he died from drug overdose and no one wanted to (cared to) contact anyone about him -- just left him in the gutter and took the car/wallet for buying more drugs.

6: He deceided he needed to get away from things and left town for a while.
Refer to #4 -- another unlikely scenario, unless he was kidnapped, which is another possibility not mentioned here.

From the choices above, I'd say #1 before anything else, with a #5 as close second. A kidnapping scenario would be my third. The others don't make much sense with the information provided.

Enter forensic science!!

1.

Sat and Sun.

She then tells you that he has been using Crack-Cocaine recently, behind her back, and she just found out wednesday(before the phone call). she tells you some lady of african-american descent has been bringing him into the bad parts of the city to get crack.
I would have to question the validity of the aunts statements, and pick "none of the above"
I'm more likely to believe that she was having an affair (or he was abusive to her) and had the Unc "taken care of". Odd how she finds out on wed. with (coincidently) no time to ask for help for his adiction. and just how did she find out, anyway?
Besides being a crappy example of a family man, he does lie, because using drugs behind someones back involves lying of some kind. Family men do NOT go to the bar every night, or use drugs (or abuse their wives).
The part about "bad neighborhoods" and "African Americans" is just too steriotypical to be true, and she was counting on people being too predjediuce to question it. The disposal and subseqent use of his personal items, is easy. Just drop them off in an area far from the actual crime scene where people aren't likely to turn them in. (near a homeless shelter) Some one is bound to find and use the items.

So either she:
1) Finally got tired of being abandoned each evening, when loving couples should be together.
2) She falls in love with someone else.
Or she:
1) Gets tired of his years of abuse. She probably liked it when he left each night.
2) She becomes pushed to the edge by something he did.

Either way:
3) She arranges or helps to arrange his "disappearence"
He may have even come home (to his end) that night, who knows?

Oh and that is not how it works. Lady's don't bring people into bad parts of the city to get crack. He could get that stuff delivered to where ever he wanted it, and by a nice looking white man in a suit, (who could also rob him, but then he would 'lose' a customer) if he so desired.

[personal note]
I have worked in so called "bad neighborhoods" before. Mostly at night too. There I was, night after night, making deliveries, driving through alleys to loading docks, being the ethnic minority, (not african american) and seeing it all. I never got attacked, robbed, mugged. The good part was when I took that job, I got paid twice what others doing the same job in other areas did, because every one else was afraid to go there even in the daytime. There were (and always will be) a few unsavory characters, but I found there were a whole lot of very nice people in those "bad neighorhoods."
[/ personal note]

I can't make out the entire story -- appears to be another case of cellular static.

The best I can tell the uncle told his wife he'd be home in two months, he was on track with his Rogaine and was having his hair done as an "Afro". He was calling from the stylist shop "Bad Parts" and must have lost his billfold after that.

He is on a 14 day binge and his brain is not functioning. He will come home like nothing happened and not even realize his card was missing because he was doing more than just coke and used the card to cut lines with at some point.

The answer is #2.

Richy has some good detective skills. Apparently in this story, there is something in there that clearly states the answer. I could not find it, my guess was number 3.

Ummm... That doesn't explain anything. How was that conclusion reached? Because without knowing how it was reached any of those possibilities could be the answer.

Looks like it's just abother "process of elimination" story, however, it doesn't seem to be posted verbatim, so it's kinda hard to pin-point the falacies in each scenerio.

Just out of curiousity, where'd you get that?

Originally posted by comphosting
Looks like it's just abother "process of elimination" story, however, it doesn't seem to be posted verbatim, so it's kinda hard to pin-point the falacies in each scenerio.

Just out of curiousity, where'd you get that?

Exactly what I was thinking. That's why I chose '1' because it seemed like originally it was a setup that the wife did it due to some inconsistencies in her story, but what was posted above didn't show anything.

So... Are we just going to be left hanging here?:confused: :bawling: