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Weighty problem

15 Nov 06 in Games

A truck driver and his assistant were pulling a sealed trailer containing a tonne of live birds sitting on perches.
Including the birds his whole vehicle weighed a little under 21 tonnes.
He arrives at a bridge which is marked 'Maximum Weight 20 tonnes'.
The driver thinks for a moment and then asks his assistant to take an iron bar and bang on the cab sides to scare the birds off their perches. with the birds in flight inside the trailer a tonne of weight is lifted from the perches and the driver rolls forward to cross the bridge.
Clever?
Now here's the question...would you be happy to ride across with that driver or not, and why?

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  1. Tame Swallow
    15 Nov 06
    no as the bridge can only take 20 tonnes!
  2. thirty-seven
    15 Nov 06
    Come on, think of one I haven't heard before ;)

    *spoilers*

    No, because the downward force of the air created by the birds flapping would make up for their weight.

    *end spoilers*
  3. Roman Centurion
    16 Nov 06
    I wonder what a ton of live birds looks like.
  4. BigTel
    17 Nov 06
    Similar to a tonne...
  5. Majestic Swan
    18 Nov 06
    um... *thinks*

    poor birds!
  6. tile harder
    19 Nov 06
    no,because i add weight?
  7. BigTel
    22 Nov 06
    37 got it ...it's a sealed system the weight of the birds and the air inside remains constant so you still have the 21 tonnes of bird and trailer...hence disaster.
  8. tile harder
    27 Nov 06
    I would still add weight! especially after christmas
  9. Holly
    2 Dec 06
    no I would not , Mommy told me not to ride with strangers

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