Okay, so, I remembered an old riddle I once heard and was never told the answer to. It occurred to me that maybe my friendslist could help.
varoitusmerkki, I know you've heard this, too. If I'm misremembering a detail or you have the answer now, do tell.
So. Anyway.
A man enters a town. On the balcony of one of the houses he passes, there's a woman hanging laundry. The man pulls out a gun and shoots her. The police do nothing.
Why?Now, if memory serves, the answer is not that the authorities never find out. They're aware of what happened, but the they take no action against the man who shot the woman.
It's more than likely that this riddle exists in a variety of forms with the exact same answer. If you know the answer to a similar riddle, it just might be the answer to this one, too.