Detective Vance walked into the cabin where a mountaineer sat shivering by a roaring fireplace. The mountaineer claimed he had just snowshoed up the mountain pass during a blizzard that had raged for the last three days straight. Vance looked at the mountaineer's boots, which were bone dry, and arrested him for lying. Why?
Walking through three days of blizzard snow would soak his boots, but they were bone dry.
Fresh snow melts upon contact with room temperature and body heat, and walking through a heavy blizzard would inevitably wet the boots. Dry boots proved he had not been out in the snowstorm.
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