Bilateral Thinking Puzzles
Q: A man dressed entirely in black and wearing a black mask, is standing
in the middle of a crossroad. All of the streetlights at the intersection
are broken. A car speeds down the road, heading straight for the man, yet
it turns in time and doesn't hit him. How does it manage to miss him?
A: During a forest fire, a fire-fighting plane had scooped up some water
from the lake to drop on the fire. The man was a diver who had been
swimming in the lake.
This is another thing that seemed funnier a third of the way into
writing it, from
the Surrealist. 19th August 2005.