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A girl, while at the funeral of her mother, met a guy whom she did not know.
She thought this guy was amazing. She believed him to be her sould mate, the man of her dreams, the one she was destined to be with.She thought she'd faalen in love with right there at her mother's grave.
There was a snag, she hadn't asked his name or gotten his number.
She tried to find him but could not.

Interestiingly within a week her sister was murdered.

So, who killed the sister and why?

Ooh I know this one! Do you want me to blurt it out or leave you a message in secret?

I really ought to have learned to preview my post by now... I 've been on this site for 3 years now.

Fire away with your theory, you mightn't be as right as yopu think.
I think the question is interesting, hopefully other people with opine upon it.

She did. It was her sister's boyfriend.....

A little background on this question...
It was purported to be a real question used by a US psychologist to determine psychopathic tendecies in patients...
This was untrue.
Whoever came up with it originally didn't understand what a sociopath is.

So was I right? Or are you not going to tell me?

It's not the answer that one is 'meant' to come up with, no.

oh.... I don't have anything else then...

If question were genuinly valid you could comfort yourself by being safe in the knowledge that you don't think like a psycopath... only that's nonsense.

Are you implying I have psychopathic tendencies??? *raises her eyebrow and smiles*

Not at all.
You're jibbering psychotic with a fondness for matches and shiney things that go "bang".

*rocks back and forth in her corner*

She kills her sister, to make the dude come to the next funeral, and then she can chat him up.




Milla

I'm with Milla

Milla may be right.... if she is I WAS close then....

Well no one in their right mind would do such a thing, would I? Even if I was a psycopath, the risk of being caught is bigger than the benefit of a new boyfriend... And just because I'm a psychopath, it doesn't have to mean I'm stupid?

*asks imaginary friend if I'm right or if I'm right*

Yours is a great answer, Milla! If it's right, I'd have thought the question would be more about testing to see if someone's a comedian.

Maybe the guy at the funeral was a serial killer, and the reason she didnt know him was because he wasnt related and then he killed the sister because he was a raving lunatic?

I think Milla's answer is more likely

A perfectly valid theory from the black angel there.
Of course the answer one is meant to give is Milla's.
It a bit of a leading question really, playing to stereotypes and misconceptions.
A person with psycopathic traits would have been more likely to kill her sister for the inheritence. A psycopath would have been bold enough to chat-up the man at the funeral.
It take normal reasoning, not the twisted rational of a psycopath to arrive at the answer... And yes, being a psycopath or a psychotic doesn't make you stupid. Quite often the opposite.

Like Snailrind, I thought the question and premise were rather amusing.

Do keep us posted if you come across any other titbits like that, won't you?