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Are you saying the blooded guy never dropped a drip of blood on his clothing?! :O :P

I am now going to think about Hirgons :)
Good Bye :D

@lady santa

lol oooo thats interesting thats def thinkin out side the box

nahh i sed u and 5 peeps, i sed 4 of the MEN were accountants and the other PERSON was a fireFIGHTER not fireman. it doesnt matter whether ur a dude or a grl cos u wud kno if it was u hoo was cheetin....

i sed none of the people had met each uvva b4

@ Coops

If I say I have a group of horses and 4 of the horses are black, that suggests there are more than 4 horses as I'm only referring to a select group of them, in this case the black horses, in your case the accountants. Hirgon already said it, the way you post the riddle matters a lot. You made the true answer impossible :)

The can-not-sleep-man was a secret agent! He has a special phone and when you dial a special number, say 666, a special sleeping gas comes out of the little holes making him fall a sleep in an instant :D

A man walks into a bar and orders a drink.  The bartender pulls out a gun and points it at the man.  The man says, "Thank you," and walks out.  Why? 

(no looking it up on the Net; this one's pretty easy)

Hirgon, the answer to yours would be he was a wealthy clockmaker with many clocks around his room and was told by ransomers who had his daughter to call them at a payphone at 12:00 midnight. He picked up the phone, called them, and it turned out that the whole thing was a joke and his daughter was spending the night at a friends house and these guys thought that it would be funny to scare her dad because she had not told him. Because of this, he felt relieved and went to sleep.

You are driving down the road on a stormy night.  You pass a bus stop where there are 3 people waiting: an old lady who looks like she might die w/o immediate medical attention, an old friend who once saved your life, and the perfect partner you have been searching for all your life. 

Whom do you take, if you can only take one person in the car w/you? 

hmm  well i wouldnt care bout the old lady so i would tell my friend to watch after her cause he knows how to save a life and i would take the girl

or

you give your friend your keys so he can take the old lady to the hospital, while i stay with the girl ☺

okay ive got one

i have feathers and can fly but im not a bird

a can be thrown but im almost always shot

i am wood and steel

the strength of your arm determines how far i can go

what am i??

Bwahaha, nice answers to mine, but no one has got it yet.

Answer (since it's been a couple of days)

The man couldn't sleep because he was in a hotel room, and the person in the next room was snoring loudly.  He called the room next door, and the phone ringing woke the snorer up, so that he could sleep.

yeah, you and sanoh got it.

There was a recluse who never left his home.  But then again, he didn't want to.  Outside, there were always heavy rains and storms.  The only time he had contact w/others was when his food/supplies were delivered, but the deliverymen didn't go inside even then.  One night the storms reached a peak, and the man had a nervous breakdown.  He locked all the doors, turned off all the lights, shut himself in his room and went to sleep.  The next morning, he found that he had caused the deaths of hundreds.  How? 

He isn't one.  Just enjoy the pics.

The stranger was already in the car, or his wife let the stranger in. Lots of random solutions for that one Jefzwang.

died during childbirth

and he didnt know she was prego!

A man lives on the twelfth floor of an apartment building. Every morning he takes the elevator down to the lobby and leaves the building. In the evening, he gets into the elevator, and, if there is someone else in the elevator -- or if it was raining that day -- he goes back to his floor directly. Otherwise, he goes to the tenth floor and walks up two flights of stairs to his apartment.

This one really goes along with VU :)

sorry, I fail :(

The policeman was playing Grand Theft Auto and therefor, being a criminal ingame himself, didn't feel the need to stop him.

The road ended about 200 meters further up the road, where constructions were in progress.

The policeman thought he was hallucinating.

The truckdriver was both a good friend of the officer and a secret agent. Therefor the policeman knew that if he was going the wrong way, he would have a very good reason. Something like saving the earth :)

Need more random solutions? :D

a baby fell outta 20-storey building and lived.  how?

nope.  there was nothing at the bottom; the baby hit concrete.

He fell out of the first floor of the twenty story building.

Here is a good one:

If Jack were to hit John, Jack would be directly responsible. However, if Jack was abused in childhood, or taught hitting was ok, then this model would be indirectly responsible at the first level. However, if This person had to beat on bullies in his childhood to stop them from picking on him, then the bullies would be indirectly responsible at the second level. Now, as the levels go higher and higher, what is indirectly responsible always goes to one of two things in peoples minds. What are these two things?

This relates quite directly to politics in the U.S...

A man buys rice at $1 a pound from American growers and sells them at $0.05 a pound in India. As a result of this he becomes a millionaire. How come?

He gets a nobel price for his charity work?