What would you do in this situation?

[Trini Madness]

i pulled this from a blog on myspace and thought i'd share it with you forumites...




You are a military veteran in Iraq only months from retirement.  You are basically a days counting short timer.  You joined the military right out of high School, so here you are not even 40 and you are ready to spend your days relaxing.  You have been such a great soldier that the military has offered you every possible bonus for you to reenlist, but you refuse.  To make sure they get the most out of your great experience you have been asked to mentor the new privates coming into your unit.

You are currently mentoring two female soldiers.  Both are 18 years old straight out of High School.  One is a beautiful, tough, book smart, street smart, Muslim young lady from New York City who joined the military so she could get money to attend college.  The other is an equally beautiful young lady from South Dakota, well versed in martial arts and although she is not very street smart, she scored perfect on her SATs and had numerous scholarship offers to the top universities in Britain and America.  She was so patriotic and gave up so much to fight for her country that around camp she was known as Patricia Tillman.  There was also a rumor however, that she was a member of the "Don't ask, don't tell" club.

 
Now one evening you and these two young ladies are on a mission to deliver supplies to another unit in Iraq.  God must have been on you and the young ladies side because what was an IED meant for your truck went off either a little too late or a little too early.  The impact from the blast however, threw all three of you yards away from the truck.  Again God must have been on your side, because neither of the three of you were seriously hurt.  You could hear insurgents cheering from yards away, it was getting dark and unbeknownst to them, their planted IED failed to score a direct hit.

The combat radios were left in the tuck and you had no form of communication with your unit back at base, it was just you and the young ladies.  You were currently being saved by the darkness but if daylight came and you were not found by friendly forces, the insurgents would notice that you survive and would have you and the two young soldiers for breakfast.  As you look around you noticed you are by the Tigris River.  If only you could get to the other side you and the soldiers would be safely away from the insurgents and could just wait until you were picked up by friendly forces.

 
You are now convinced that God is on your side, because right beside you is your duffel bag with a blow up raft that you carried with you from the States.  In fact, your fellow soldiers would tease you about it and say you are going to war not a vacation.  You were an experience rafter and by the width of the river you could pretty much tell how long it would take to raft across the river.  If one person was paddling it would take an hour, if it was two people peddling it would be half hour.  It was now about 10PM and daybreak would not be until 5AM, so you have more than enough time to get out of the view of the insurgents before they would be able to see you.

 
There is one problem however; the maximum capacity of the raft is 200 pounds.  You weigh 200 pounds and the young soldiers weigh 100 pounds each.  So now you have insurgents who will see you and no doubt kill you at daybreak.  You have a raft that could take you safely to the other side of the river away from the insurgents but it can't carry all three of you.  It could carry you alone or it could carry the two ladies alone.

What would YOU do in this situation?



 - i'd send the two ladies across.

[truetrini]

steups!

all 3 ah we holding on and kicking fuh de shore...anyway days ah bullshit scenario.

[DeSoWa]

To tell you the truth...that story ended up nowhere 

Big Up!

[pecan]

TT have de answer, or put one person in de raft and two hang on and take turns when one gets tired.

Den when yuh reach de other side, have an orgy becasue its obvious, God put dem with you for dat very reason .. right?

[cocoapanyol]

first off, the women in this scenario are not ladies.  They are soldiers.  So the response to the situation can go a number of ways.  If he were captured, would it pose a greater danger to the US or would capturing the female soldiers be a greater coup for the enemy.  As a leader, like the captain of a sinking ship, he would have to decide who should cross and who should stay if it came to that.  No decision should be made based solely on the sex of the soldiers.

[ribbit]

If one person was paddling it would take an hour, if it was two people peddling it would be half hour.  It was now about 10PM and daybreak would not be until 5AM, so you have more than enough time to get out of the view of the insurgents before they would be able to see you.

 
There is one problem however; the maximum capacity of the raft is 200 pounds.  You weigh 200 pounds and the young soldiers weigh 100 pounds each.  So now you have insurgents who will see you and no doubt kill you at daybreak.  You have a raft that could take you safely to the other side of the river away from the insurgents but it can't carry all three of you.  It could carry you alone or it could carry the two ladies alone.

What would YOU do in this situation?

why not make a few trips? you have 7 hours to work with and a trip with 2 people taking 30 minutes. have two people go across, 1 person return and bring back the last one?

[cocoapanyol]

If one person was paddling it would take an hour, if it was two people peddling it would be half hour.  It was now about 10PM and daybreak would not be until 5AM, so you have more than enough time to get out of the view of the insurgents before they would be able to see you.

 
There is one problem however; the maximum capacity of the raft is 200 pounds.  You weigh 200 pounds and the young soldiers weigh 100 pounds each.  So now you have insurgents who will see you and no doubt kill you at daybreak.  You have a raft that could take you safely to the other side of the river away from the insurgents but it can't carry all three of you.  It could carry you alone or it could carry the two ladies alone.

What would YOU do in this situation?

why not make a few trips? you have 7 hours to work with and a trip with 2 people taking 30 minutes. have two people go across, 1 person return and bring back the last one?

because the raft can hold only 200 pounds at a time.  The man alone weighs 200 and each woman weighs 100.

[Jah Gol]

100 lb soldiers ? Nice try

[ribbit]

give dat problem to rumsfield. he could solve it. 

[dcs]

2 women go across   200lbs and 30mins
1 woman go back     100lbs and 1 hour
1 man go across       200lbs and 1 hour
1 woman go back     100lbs and 1 hour
2 women go across   200lbs and 30mins

so dat is 4 hours

I eh think that was what the person was thinking unless they wanted to see if people wud jump to a self-preserving solution before considering something for all?

[cocoapanyol]

2 women go across   200lbs and 30mins
1 woman go back     100lbs and 1 hour
1 man go across       200lbs and 1 hour
1 woman go back     100lbs and 1 hour
2 women go across   200lbs and 30mins

so dat is 4 hours

I eh think that was what the person was thinking unless they wanted to see if people wud jump to a self-preserving solution before considering something for all?

OK...in the scenario where either one man goes across or two women go across, who bringing back the raft keeping in mind that the raft can hold only 200 lbs.  It have any soldiers in dis forum?

[dcs]

in that scenario the raft always being carried by someone.

[cocoapanyol]

in that scenario the raft always being carried by someone.

well then, de man could pull or carry de two women in de raft, or vice versa if dat is de case.

[Organic]

allyuh serious 

[Jah Gol]

Neither of the ladies in the scenario would even qualify to enter the military- they weigh only 100 lbs. It's a trick.

[truetrini]

Neither of the ladies in the scenario would even qualify to enter the military- they weigh only 100 lbs. It's a trick.

breds it depends on dem height.  I see woman soldiers weighing between 98-160 already

[socachatter]

i would say the scenario too long to read and go to another thread...

[real madness]

100 lb soldiers ? Nice try

that was the first thought that came to my mind

[Jah Gol]

Neither of the ladies in the scenario would even qualify to enter the military- they weigh only 100 lbs. It's a trick.

breds it depends on dem height.  I see woman soldiers weighing between 98-160 already

What a 98lb soldier could do dred ? They does give dem desk wuk ?

[oconnorg]

Neither of the ladies in the scenario would even qualify to enter the military- they weigh only 100 lbs. It's a trick.

breds it depends on dem height.  I see woman soldiers weighing between 98-160 already

What a 98lb soldier could do dred ? They does give dem desk wuk ?

Yes.. they can advise ground troop where some one of terrorist decent is hiding..

[cocoapanyol]

So what rong wid ah 100 pongs if is muscle.  De man say dey was young.  18 years.  How much pongs yuh want ah 18 year old tuh weigh.  Now if yuh 40 and weighin 100 pongs den someting seriously rong.

[JayTheWrecker]

in times of war sacrifices often have to be made. So I would take the raft for myself but i would do the decent thing and shoot both the girls so that they wouldn't be captured/tortured/raped etc.

[dinho]

like nobody eh notice de suttle wording in this scenario...

bout "one of them a beautiful girl"...

the other one, "equally beautiful, but part of don't ask don't tell" = lesbian...

"luckily we escaped and were left alone in de dark of night with 7 hours to spare"..

i definitely know what i would do with the first 4 hours, then i would put two of them in the raft to sail it then just hold on to the raft and stay in the water while they rowing.. half hour in de river is small ting..

[Mr Fix-it]

Neither of the ladies in the scenario would even qualify to enter the military- they weigh only 100 lbs. It's a trick.

breds it depends on dem height.  I see woman soldiers weighing between 98-160 already

What a 98lb soldier could do dred ? They does give dem desk wuk ?

Dey could pull ah trigger.  Wah alyu wid, if dey are solders iz simple.  De man in de boat to cover de 2 women placed on de side away from de insurgents paddling de boat.  When de reach de oder side, make a tack back on de safe side and swim back using de same tactic as before and out flank de insurgents.  By de time dey hump back and swim across it would be good ambush time because it should be around sun rise.  Now wid de sun behind dem, coupled wid de fact that de insurgents now coming outta a comfortable sleep because de think dey kill de solders it would give dem an advantage and dey should be able to take almost everyone out widout much trouble.  Den dey hump it out tah dat area return to dey base camp wid ah purple heart/medal of honor winning story and sumthing to tell de grandkids when dey sitting in dey rockin chair....  Alyu does make dis thing harder dan it is 

[dcs]

Wham to allyuh....u don't need to swim or hold on to no raft.


Bank A                                                                                                      Bank B
Raft, sweet girl, hard girl, man

man                                     --------------30mins------------->hard & sweet girl on raft

man,     sweet girl on raft   <-----------------1 hour-----------------------           hard girl

sweet girl            ---------------------------1hour--------------------------> man on raft  hard girl

sweet girl   hard girl on raft <-------------1hour-----------------                    man

                                        ----------------30mins------------------> hard & sweet girl on raft man

Only question is which pair getting busy during "alone time"   

[ribbit]

dcs, even better ...

Bank A                                                                                                      Bank B
Raft, sweet girl, hard girl, man

man                                     --------------30mins------------->hard & sweet girl on raft

man,     hard girl on raft   <-----------------1 hour-----------------------           sweet girl

hard girl            ---------------------------1hour--------------------------> man on raft  sweet girl

hard girl            <---------------------------2hours-------------------------->  alone time for man+sweet girl

hard girl   sweet girl on raft <-------------1hour-----------------                    man

                                        ----------------30mins------------------> hard & sweet girl on raft man

[cocoapanyol]

like nobody eh notice de suttle wording in this scenario...

bout "one of them a beautiful girl"...

the other one, "equally beautiful, but part of don't ask don't tell" = lesbian...

"luckily we escaped and were left alone in de dark of night with 7 hours to spare"..

i definitely know what i would do with the first 4 hours, then i would put two of them in the raft to sail it then just hold on to the raft and stay in the water while they rowing.. half hour in de river is small ting..

I didn't miss dat but what one ah dem being a lesbian have tuh do wid anyting unless TriniMadness meant it as a joke in which case, dis in de rong section ah de board.

[pecan]

2 women go across   200lbs and 30mins
1 woman go back     100lbs and 1 hour
1 man go across       200lbs and 1 hour
1 woman go back     100lbs and 1 hour
2 women go across   200lbs and 30mins

so dat is 4 hours

I eh think that was what the person was thinking unless they wanted to see if people wud jump to a self-preserving solution before considering something for all?

Nice call DCS

I find the following description on de internet


Brainteasers that involve ferrying people and their belongings across a river under trying conditions have been around for centuries.

here is a common one:

Have you ever heard the one about a farmer traveling with a fox, a goose, and a bag of grain?

The farmer comes to a river and finds a small boat that will hold only two passengers. For obvious reasons, he can't leave the fox alone with the goose, or the goose with the grain. How does he get his cargo safely to the other side? This particular version dates back more than 1100 years. Such puzzles are simply ways of dressing up fairly standard math problems. To solve them, you can use math and logic, or you can try trial and error. There are often lots of different ways to solve a given problem.

In dis case, they put a military spin on it  ..

[fishs]

  Sh*t that .
Night time .
2 beauties.
1 who could probably do contortions
Ah whole night.
Possibility of death de next morning.
An allyuh trying tuh work out crossing a river in ah raft ?

 Lol