Jethro's Detective Agency NF

[Clampet]

One of the most recent notorious Outboard motor and fishing tackle thieves in Ontario is a man known as "Outboard Larry Pullstart". Pullstart stole more outboard motors than any other thief in the history of Canada. He was able to avoid getting caught because he was always careful.

Then one day Outboard Larry's luck ran out.

 

Several factors could be attributed to Outboard's bad luck that day.

The first was that a shore angler in the area of the outboard motor theft, which Outboard Larry was committing, happened to be taking photographs of the scenery and the license plate of the truck Pullstart was driving, later turned up in several of his snapshots, along with the outboards apparently being stolen.

The second factor was that the angler happened to later show the photo to his brother, a police officer in the Toronto police force. The same officer was aware of a certain large marina that had sustained a loss of several outboard motors on the very same day his shore angling brother had taken the photos.

The reason he had remembered the date was because it was his birthday - and the same day he happened to see Outboard Larry Pullstart driving a truckload of motors in another part of Toronto. He also remembered the license plate for a particular reason...the police officer's name was Jethro Randolph Bodeen, badge number 341, the license plate number was JRB 341.

A warrant was issued for Pullstart's arrest but, he seemed to have disappeared into thin air.

 

A description was e-mailed across Canada: male, white, 68 years, 225 lbs, grey hair, brown eyes, wears a baseball cap.

 

A few weeks later, Jethro happened to spot a man fitting the description in downtown Ottawa.

 

"We are looking fer a man who fit yer description for theft of Outboard motors in the Toronto area", said Jethro as he walked towards the man.

 

"Can't be me," replied the dude, " I've never been to Toronto. I'm from California. As a matter of fact, I personally know, John Wayne and his parents. I used to mow Mr and Mrs Wayne's lawn for 10 cents when I was just a kid."

 

"I don't beleive yer from California at all", said Jethro.

 

Why did Jethro say that?

Edited January 6, 2009 by Clamp-it

[jwl]

because thier last name was Morrison, and not Wayne, and they where from Iowa

[tjsa]

and John Wayne's real first name was Marion, but I don't think that is the answer, actually have no clue myself what Jethro's rosponse is,

[highdrifter]

Thought the ociffers name was Randolph... Who's this Jethro character??

 

Randolph shoulda been the dude asking the questions...

 

Scuse me while I kiss the sky.

 

HD

[Clampet]

Thought the ociffers name was Randolph... Who's this Jethro character??

 

Randolph shoulda been the dude asking the questions...

 

Scuse me while I kiss the sky.

 

HD

 

Randolf is Jethro' bros.

[highdrifter]

WAIT WAIT!! It was jethro's adgency, so Randolph had nothing to do with it!!

 

What did I win??!!

 

(chuckles)

[Cookslav]

Outboard is 53 years old so he was Born in 1956

John wayne would have been 49 years old when outboard was born...

Unfortunatly His father Clyde Morrison Died in 1937 and his mother Mary before him in 1930

Tough to know someones parents who died before he was even born.

[FLEX ROD]

The Wayne's lived on a RANCH hence no lawn to water, and to pay a kid $10 to water back then I do not think so.

 

FLEX - John

[Clampet]

The Wayne's lived on a RANCH hence no lawn to water, and to pay a kid $10 to water back then I do not think so.

 

FLEX - John

C'mon now, those Ranches are like mansions... lawns, swimming pools, heck some have their own Art Galleries.

 

Keep trying.

[Clampet]

Outboard is 53 years old so he was Born in 1956

John wayne would have been 49 years old when outboard was born...

Unfortunatly His father Clyde Morrison Died in 1937 and his mother Mary before him in 1930

Tough to know someones parents who died before he was even born.

Read it again.

[Cookslav]

QUOTE(Cookslav @ Jan 6 2009, 03:22 PM) *

Outboard is 53 years old so he was Born in 1956

John wayne would have been 49 years old when outboard was born...

Unfortunatly His father Clyde Morrison Died in 1937 and his mother Mary before him in 1930

Tough to know someones parents who died before he was even born.

 

 

Read it again.

 

I assume the age is not important to the riddle being you changed outboards age from 53 to 68...which is Still not old enough as that puts his birth at 1941 LOL!

[cram]

In 2006, $10.00 from 1940 is worth:

$143.69 using the Consumer Price Index

$118.99 using the GDP deflator

$297.65 using the value of consumer bundle

$294.80 using the unskilled wage

$573.52 using the nominal GDP per capita

$1,299.64 using the relative share of GDP

 

Also the fact that Wayne wasn`t their family name. Ibelieve it was morrison or something.

 

Also, as someone else poinjted out his father died before this guy would have been born (unless this is an old story)

[Clampet]

In 2006, $10.00 from 1940 is worth:

$143.69 using the Consumer Price Index

$118.99 using the GDP deflator

$297.65 using the value of consumer bundle

$294.80 using the unskilled wage

$573.52 using the nominal GDP per capita

$1,299.64 using the relative share of GDP

 

Also the fact that Wayne wasn`t their family name. Ibelieve it was morrison or something.

 

Also, as someone else poinjted out his father died before this guy would have been born (unless this is an old story)

Ok, Ok it's a technicality.

I'll fix the story so that the guy made 10 cents to mow his lawn.

Does that make it better for you.

[Jigger]

He was wearing a Blue Jays hat...

[jwl]

umm you guys going to keep using that for a microphone, or are you going to pass it around while we try and figure out the answer???

[douG]

Pass that Dutchie from the left hand side.

 

By times, I am pretty good at this sort of thing, but drawing a blank right now.

 

I think that Jed is changing the mechanics of the story as we go along, and pretty soon there won't be much left. Next we gotta change the license plate stuff.

[johnnyb]

THey obviously weren't California plates....but more importantly, California wasn't a state back when he claimed to be mowing the lawns down there.

[cram]

THey obviously weren't California plates....but more importantly, California wasn't a state back when he claimed to be mowing the lawns down there.

 

Became a US state in the early to mid 1800's.

 

Maybe he was wearing a Toronto Maple Leafs baseball hat?

[irishfield]

His companion had real boobs??

[Clampet]

I've had enough fun so I'll put this thar thang ta rest..

John Wayne was the actor's stage name. - his real name was Marion Michael Anderson. So his parents would not have been named "Mr and Mrs Wayne".

The man was obviously lying.

[Terry]

I thought his name was Marion Michael Morrison

and I thought jwl had that answer

[irishfield]

Jwayne.com concures Terry! Jed... what's goin on?

 

But the Wayne saga actually started much farther east, in the small town of Winterset, Iowa, where he was born May 26, 1907, and was named Marion Michael Morrison.

 

His father, Clyde L. Morrison, had a drugstore, but when Marion was 6 years old, his father, because of ill health, moved the family to Southern California and became a homesteader with an 80-acre farm. Not long after, the family settled in Glendale, where Mr. Morrison again went and opened a pharmacy.

[Clampet]

Jwayne.com concures Terry! Jed... what's goin on?

I was led astray..

 

[blakewalk]

Sounds like a good one for Wiki !

[Terry]

well dang

I read it, thought I had the answer saw that jwl already had my answer and was dismissed as being wrong

then I thought dang it must be over my head, cause you got me

 

 

LOL oh well had nothing better to do