Trick Pass It On Quiz

[Gogf]

Pass it on type quiz, IE I ask a question, and the person who gets it right asks the next, and so on.

Trick people into thinking the wrong answer, such as "impossible" .

Just a general notice:

Although there are still a lot of good questions being posted, please try to remember that this is a trick quiz, and not a math or logic quiz. Questions that are misleading are strongly encouraged, and ones that seem impossible, but are not are also great. Anything involving long mathematically calculations is strongly discouraged. Please keep this in mind.

 

[Rik Meleet]

A man in South Africa receives a parcel from the USA. He opens it, looks inside and smiles. There is a human arm inside. He then seals it again and sends it to Japan.
The recipient in Japan opens it, looks inside, sees the arm and smiles. He then throws it all away.

What's the story ?

 

[Gogf]

No clue.

Ten character minimum.

 

[stratego]

Can we still post if we've heard the story before? It just seems unfair to post if we've heard the story before, but then again it's almost impossible to get the "right" story if we haven't.

 

[Tomoyo]

The story is:

A man in South Africa receives a parcel from the USA. He opens it, looks inside and smiles. There is a human arm inside. He then seals it again and sends it to Japan.
The recipient in Japan opens it, looks inside, sees the arm and smiles. He then throws it all away.

 

[Rik Meleet]

Can we still post if we've heard the story before? It just seems unfair to post if we've heard the story before, but then again it's almost impossible to get the "right" story if we haven't.

Yes you can, but give others a chance to guess it right.
I will give clues.

clue 1 The 3 men know eachother; they sailed on the same ship.

 

[Gogf]

I like Tomoyo's story, but I guess that is wrong.

 

[ybbor]

its the arm of an enemy soldier

 

[Rik Meleet]

No, it's not the arm of an enemy soldier. In fact there is no "enemy".

 

[Mise]

Need clue number two!

 

[Chieftess]

A man in South Africa receives a parcel from the USA. He opens it, looks inside and smiles. There is a human arm inside. He then seals it again and sends it to Japan.
The recipient in Japan opens it, looks inside, sees the arm and smiles. He then throws it all away.

What's the story ?

One of them lost an arm? Or it was an arm of a mean ship captain? Something cost them an arm (and a leg)? They were members of the Yakuza? (stretching it, but a yakuza member will chop off part of his finger and send it to his boss if he angered his boss). The arm was all that was left of the first person?

 

[Rik Meleet]

No crimes involved.

Clue number 2:The arm belonged to the original sender.

 

[Gogf]

The man finally had his third arm removed?

 

[nonconformist]

It was a gun? Or he had gangrene or something?

 

[Rik Meleet]

That man was in perfect health before he had his arm (voluntarily) removed.

 

[nonconformist]

Is it an artificial limb?

 

[Rik Meleet]

No artficial limbs. A normal human arm with 1 thing different; is is no longer attached to the human torso.

Perhaps clue number 3 is required ?

 

[Chieftess]

The arm belonged to his deceased conjoined twin? He left the army? (actually my first guess, but didn't write it). The 2nd guy sent it to the wrong address.

 

[Rik Meleet]

No twins, nothing to do with army. No wrong addresses.

The question is really: "Why was the arm taken of the first guy and sent to the 2nd and the 3rd ?"

 

[ybbor]

he was an organ doner?