I am posting this here as it happened in Puerto Rico.As I noted our internet service is intermittent so I have been watching more TV.I was watching a mystery in which the murderer hit his brother in the head on their sailboat,threw him overboard and then swam 1 mile to shore so that it looked like his brother was alone on the boat and hit by the boom and knocked overboard.One of the investigators figured it out from several clues,but the main one was he was a triathlete and the ONLY one she knew who could swim 1 mile to shore.I realized practically all my friends would have been suspects as we all could make that swim.
After a triathlete friend told me about the swimming start at the Kona World Championships (2400 thrashing piranhas in a frenzy of swimming over one another), it occurred to me that this would be a great way to get away with murder.
Get your triathlete friend (you know, the one who has been cheating with your triathlete wife) to start right next to you in the thick of the pack. Swim on his heels for the first 400 yards or so, right into the churning maelstrom of competitive humanity. Then simply hold him underneathe you till he drowns, then swim on.
No one could possibly tell what happened, or that you were the miscreant.
Unless...the cops were able to analyze GPS data from your race chips.
Hmmm.
This guys seems to have been directly on top of his best friend for over 3 minutes in this one spot. Better take a DNA swab from the guy's wife...
I am posting this here as it happened in Puerto Rico.As I noted our internet service is intermittent so I have been watching more TV.I was watching a mystery in which the murderer hit his brother in the head on their sailboat,threw him overboard and then swam 1 mile to shore so that it looked like his brother was alone on the boat and hit by the boom and knocked overboard.One of the investigators figured it out from several clues,but the main one was he was a triathlete and the ONLY one she knew who could swim 1 mile to shore.I realized practically all my friends would have been suspects as we all could make that swim.
After a triathlete friend told me about the swimming start at the Kona World Championships (2400 thrashing piranhas in a frenzy of swimming over one another), it occurred to me that this would be a great way to get away with murder.
Get your triathlete friend (you know, the one who has been cheating with your triathlete wife) to start right next to you in the thick of the pack. Swim on his heels for the first 400 yards or so, right into the churning maelstrom of competitive humanity. Then simply hold him underneathe you till he drowns, then swim on.
No one could possibly tell what happened, or that you were the miscreant.
Unless...the cops were able to analyze GPS data from your race chips.
Hmmm.
This guys seems to have been directly on top of his best friend for over 3 minutes in this one spot. Better take a DNA swab from the guy's wife...
