I know this is *so* last week, but I was in a bookstore today, and happened across a book of lateral thinking puzzles. One of them caught my eye when it flipped open, largely because it's supposedly based on a true story. Here it is...

A woman walked into a police station. A man was following her with one of his hands in her pocket. She said, "I'd like to report a pickpocket." At this point, the man with his hand in her pocket confessed.

Why did he follow her in and confess?

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.He tried to pickpocket his own mother!

Yeah, I like Variol's explanation. Was the boy like 8 o something and his mom wanted to teach him a lesson?

<font color=plum>Ohhh...I don't know. Let's go for something really off the wall.

My guess is that she had a mousetrap sewn into her pocket. :D </font>

Because he never got what was in her pocket by the time he got in there. ;)

Cerek's close, but not quite there. I'll post an answer tomorrow morning (my time).

because his hand was stuck?

I second that, but stuck with....superglue?

The right thoughts... his hand was stuck. But given the speed with which a pickpocket must operate, why didn't he just flee, pulling his hand out?

Final answer in the morning, whenever I get in [img]smile.gif[/img]

Hmmm, uhhh she hand cuffed him???

He reached into her pocketesses, not realising that her dirty-sticky tissue was in there. It was so sticky in there that he could not pull his hand free. ;)

Aha!!!!! They are conjoined twins!!!!
And somehow he thought he could get away with it [img]tongue.gif[/img]

Ahhhh... creative answers, to be sure. The "right" answer is that she had sewn fishhooks into her pocket, and when she caught a pickpocket, promptly walked over to the police station and turned him in.

A man by the name of Samuel Mulford was the inspiration for this, according to history cited here:


Thanks for playing [img]smile.gif[/img]

He was a lawyer, and as we all know lawyers cant keep they're hands in their own pockets!