As Sherlock Holmes famously said – “Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how implausible, must be the truth”.
3rd Ringwood Scouts emulated the Baker Street super-sleuth recently to determine how well known Ringwood character ‘Bickerley Ben’ met his sad demise in the town centre.
Five teams of Scouts donned their deerstalkers and scoured the shops and streets to unravel 18 puzzling clues – thus allowing them to eliminate suspects, causes of death, and possible scenes of crime – and leaving them with a ‘who, what and where’ solution to the conundrum of how poor old Ben met his untimely end.
After around 80 minutes of painstaking investigations the teams of detectives started arriving back with their evidence. Three teams successfully solved the clues to eliminate the impossible and identify the implausible murder culprit, and where and how they did it. The other two teams were very close – though both teams were about to incarcerate the wrong person for the crime!
(This is the second time in recent years that poor old Ben has been murdered! For the record – on this occasion Ben was Drowned at the Lighthouse by Yvonne!)