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[CASE #34 - CaptainD's brain stopped working, what happened?Answer: Nothing, it's just what normally happens.]

Is this about the assassination of Duke Ferdinand that started WWI?

Yes - does this mean I have simply remembered something that was posted before and thought it was my own idea?

CASE #34 - CaptainD's brain stopped working, what happened?
Answer: Nothing, it's just what normally happens.

[A shot was fired from a single weapon, resulting in the death of millions of people. What happened?]

Okay I thought of this one last night but I can't be sure that actually hasn't already been done... checking back every case is a bit too time-consuming right now!  So apologies if this has actually already been done.

Case #34

A shot was fired from a single weapon, resulting in the death of millions of people.  What happened?


Yes



No

Ok, I did not really expect this to take long, but the very first question? (Techniquelly he's the game piece...)

Sorry dude!  It was just the first thing that came into my head (I really like Monopoly but seldom play it as apparently I'm a bad loser and even worse winner! An accusation I strenuously deny! )

Never heard of a Hammerhead Slug, so that would have been impossible to solve for me.

Me neither mate but I had to do some research to find something that would fit my clue since the earthworm thing turned out to be inaccurate.

Is he playing Monopoly?

Wild theorie, but:

Is the victim an earthworm that was cut in two, creating two earthworms in the process? (The german wikipedia tells me this is not possible, while the english one says it is. Oh, who cares?)

This was actually my original thought, but when I looked it up again I found that earthworms do not actually produce two living organisms, only the one with the head will survive, the other will not (though it may continue moving for a short time, which is possibly what gives rise to the common conception that cutting an earthworm in half will create 2 living worms).  Erroneously I had indeed originally been going with the idea of an earthworm.

Since you got what my original "crime" was I'm going to say you got it.  In fact I had to change it to the Hammerhead Slug, which is the largest flatworm, and one of the few land-based ones.  Flatworms do have the ability to be split in two, and in fact for this particular species it is their preferred method of reproduction!

The scenario was that someone came across one of these flatworms on their land, cut it in half with a spade (a "savage and damaging attack" and moved it out of sight.  Both ends of the worm formed a new living creature and thus the first one met its "twin".  (I realise that calling it a twin could be seen as a misnomer, but it seemed the most fitting term to use.)

Very well done, Sinitrena!


(Mandle - that would have been a cool riddle too!)

[The attack was savage and very damaging, but the victim lived. That same day, the victim met their twin, for the very first time. What happened?]

Note - actually this isn't going to be anywhere near as easy as I first thought because of an error I made... but I can't tell you what that error is because it would make solving the puzzle much easier!  D'oh... all will be revealed in the end, the clue still stands exactly as it is anyway.

Case #32

The attack was savage and very damaging, but the victim lived.  That same day, the victim met their twin, for the very first time.  What happened?


Yes
Did the victim lose a part of their body?
Was the victim male? *yes and no
Was the victim female? *yes and no


No
Were there any curtains around?
Did the victim have any robotic parts?
Are they Siamese twins that somehow never saw each other until an operation could separate them?
Was there more than one victim? 
Was the victim male? *yes and no
Was the victim female? *yes and no
Are we talking about humans?
Is the victim a sailor?
Is the victim saved by a ship?
Is his twin an important person?

Les Triplettes de Belleville?

[The attack was savage and very damaging, but the victim lived. That same day, the victim met their twin, for the very first time. What happened?]

Note - actually this isn't going to be anywhere near as easy as I first thought because of an error I made... but I can't tell you what that error is because it would make solving the puzzle much easier!  D'oh... all will be revealed in the end, the clue still stands exactly as it is anyway.

Case #32

The attack was savage and very damaging, but the victim lived.  That same day, the victim met their twin, for the very first time.  What happened?


Yes
Did the victim lose a part of their body?
Was the victim male? *yes and no
Was the victim female? *yes and no


No
Were there any curtains around?
Did the victim have any robotic parts?
Are they Siamese twins that somehow never saw each other until an operation could separate them?
Was there more than one victim? 
Was the victim male? *yes and no
Was the victim female? *yes and no
Are we talking about humans?

[The attack was savage and very damaging, but the victim lived. That same day, the victim met their twin, for the very first time. What happened?]

Note - actually this isn't going to be anywhere near as easy as I first thought because of an error I made... but I can't tell you what that error is because it would make solving the puzzle much easier!  D'oh... all will be revealed in the end, the clue still stands exactly as it is anyway.

Case #32

The attack was savage and very damaging, but the victim lived.  That same day, the victim met their twin, for the very first time.  What happened?


Yes
Did the victim lose a part of their body?


No
Were there any curtains around?
Did the victim have any robotic parts?
Are they Siamese twins that somehow never saw each other until an operation could separate them?

Case #32

The attack was savage and very damaging, but the victim lived.  That same day, the victim met their twin, for the very first time.  What happened?


(Apologies in advance if this one is just too easy, but I couldn't resist! )

If anyone watched the trailer initially and the image quality was absolutely terrible, watch it again and it should be a lot better.  Seems to be a weird think that YouTube does, only properly sorting out its own processing of the vid after 24-28 hours.

Thanks AGA!!!!

[For the rebellion!!]

Good stuff.

For the rebellion!!

Awesome, thanks AGA!

Millions?

I would like to see this too.

Does the life sentence refer to enforced sterilisation perhaps?

Let's just clear this up then:

Is the term "execution" referring to the criminals being literally killed?
Is the term "lifetime sentence" referring to being in a literal prison for the rest of their lives?

Other thought:

Is holding the child hostage involved?

[If]

If that's right, I'm struggling to see where the execution comes in, unless that part would refer to the foetus being aborted?

Was the "undeniable evidence" a child?