TIME FOR A BRAIN TEASER!

From time to time, readers have been challenged to take a Quickie Quiz here at the blog.  In case you've missed them, you can find earlier Quickie Quizzes at the following links: http://medinacorruption.blogspot.com/2010/11/very-short-riddle.html and at http://medinacorruption.blogspot.com/2010/11/time-again-for-quickie-quiz.html

Now it's time to challenge your powers of deductive thinking to see if you can come up with the correct answer all on your own.

READY? HERE WE GO:

Imagine that you are a reported/photographer employed at the Central Office of the Medina Gasette, published by George Spudnutts.


On one warm and sunny summer afternoon, George frantically motions for you come to his office.  You set down you tin of half-eaten sardines and stroll over to George's office, wondering what this crisis may be about.


As you enter his office, George, who appears to be really flustered, exclaims, "We've had a report that judge COLLIER was just struck by a car as he was crossing Route 3 on foot, south of town.  Preliminary reports are that he may have been killed.  Get out there and see what you can find out.  Don't forget your camera. I want good pictures."


So, figuring that it was as good an excuse as any to get out of the office on this pleasant afternoon, you leave the office and drive down Route 3, taking a brief detour to stop at the Dairy Queen for a Dillie Bar.


After finishing your absolutely delicious Dillie Bar, you return to you car and head south down Route 3.  A short distance down the road, you see a number of emergency vehicles, flashing their combinations of red and blue emergency lights.  


You park your car behind the nearest Fire Engine, and you first notice that firemen are hosing blood off the pavement at two different locations, approximately 50 feet apart.  Your first impression is that COLLIER was struck in one spot and landed in another, leaving blood spatter in two places.


You approach one of the firemen and ask why they are hosing off the pavement in two separate and distinct locations. The firemen tells you that there had actually been two motor vehicle accidents, at nearly the same time and in nearly the same location.


First, he tells you COLLIER had been struck by an auto while crossing Route 3 on foot.

He says that, shortly thereafter, another passing auto struck a SNAKE crossing Route 3.

The fireman then tells you there were no survivors.

Since there were no survivors and both carcasses had already been removed from the scene and carried off to the landfill, you now have to take good pictures of the wet spot in the road where COLLIER was struck and killed.

The ultimate question now is to figure out which wet spot is the remains of COLLIER and which is the remains of the SNAKE!


Take all the time you need to think about it!


Stumped?

HERE'S THE ANSWER:


WHILE SURVEYING THE SCENE, YOU NOTICED ONE SET OF SKID MARKS BEFORE ONE OF THE WET SPOTS, WHILE THERE WERE NO SUCH TIRE MARKS BEFORE THE OTHER WET SPOT.  IT IS OBVIOUS THAT THE DRIVER WHO SLAMMED ON THE BRAKES SAW THE SNAKE AND TRIED TO AVOID A  COLLISION! SO YOU TAKE GOOD PHOTOS OF THE OTHER WET SPOT, WHERE COLLIER HAD BEEN STRUCK.


MUCH MORE TO COME ....