It is an incredibly nice day out here today, and I have taken a great walk through some local woods. The forest was full of flowers and birds, and I enjoyed myself very much. I stumbled upon two riddles that I`d like to share however. In both cases the question is: How did it get there?
#1. The bird on the branche. This carcass of what I think might be a blackbird was on a branch, with the wings on either side of it. At the place I found it, it is highly unlikely that someone put it there. We have some buzzards in the area, and I wondered if this could be the remainder of a lunch that was dropped from a treetop and rotted away merrily on this branche?
#2. The Benchgrinder. Not far from the bird I stumbled upon this thing. It is in the middle of a small wood, and hundreds of meters away from the closest place to park a car. It is a really heavy duty grinder, and mounted on an even heavier steel pole that it once stood on. Even the thick steel base-plate to mount the whole thing to the floor was there. I have not the faintest clue how it got here. People wanting to dump it would not take the effort to carry it so far out. Can anyone thing of a scenario where you`d need to bring a grinder to the woods to leave it there?
#1. The bird on the branche. This carcass of what I think might be a blackbird was on a branch, with the wings on either side of it. At the place I found it, it is highly unlikely that someone put it there. We have some buzzards in the area, and I wondered if this could be the remainder of a lunch that was dropped from a treetop and rotted away merrily on this branche?
#2. The Benchgrinder. Not far from the bird I stumbled upon this thing. It is in the middle of a small wood, and hundreds of meters away from the closest place to park a car. It is a really heavy duty grinder, and mounted on an even heavier steel pole that it once stood on. Even the thick steel base-plate to mount the whole thing to the floor was there. I have not the faintest clue how it got here. People wanting to dump it would not take the effort to carry it so far out. Can anyone thing of a scenario where you`d need to bring a grinder to the woods to leave it there?