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Sorry Patrick! You couldn't contact me because I was sleeping.

Two things:

Where is this post where 'Patrick lies to espeon'?

Patrick, who did you kill first?

We'll start again, and I (or someone else) will post clearer instructions. Don't worry Patrick!

Must go now but I'll be back later.

No, I haven't PMed the murderer yet, because I'm still unsure of how we're playing.

But not everyone can PM. Say, hypothetically, I chose someone who can't PM, how would they reply to me telling me who to PM?

Wa. It doesn't really matter. How 'bout we just start and see what happens? I will PM the murderer now, so keep an eye out for a message.

Suspects
justlookingforthemoment
mathsyperson
Patrick
Devanté
luca-deltodesco
Zach
Espeon
Dross

Alright. PMs it is then.

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Zach
Espeon

Seven people is just about right to start. Unless anyone still wants to keep waiting, I propose I send a PM to the murderer and we get this show on the road.

Moderators aren't determined by post count (so, posting heaps won't help). To be a moderator, you have to be an active, helpful, responsible and trustworthy member. Only MathsIsFun can make you one.

5) 64
6) 240°
7) 15
8) 12 (alternatively, 'a trillion (US)' contains no zeros)
9) 1, 3, 37, 111
10) 8

Can you PM espeon her new password?

Thanks mathsy, did you reset the image awards?

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espeon

The more people the better - it's too easy with this amount. I can't be the murderer; then someone gets killed, so automatically the remaining person knows who the murderer is. So, we'll wait for a few more to join ... Rod, ganesh, Zach and anyone else.

Also, Rod: can we use PMs or not?

Thanks, ruby. You have some good stuff there!

1.itachi - some sort of weasel or skunk-like animal?
2.sakura - cherry blossom
3.sakura haruno
3.kakashi - scarecrow
4.hatake kakashi - field scarecrow
5.ero sennin - some sort of wizard or fairy?

Shortly after 11:00 a.m. AEST (01:00 UTC) on 4 September 2006, Irwin was fatally pierced in the chest by a stingray barb whilst snorkelling at the Great Barrier Reef, at Batt Reef, which is located off the coast of Port Douglas in Queensland. Irwin was in the area filming his own documentary, to be called The Ocean's Deadliest, but weather had stalled filming. Irwin decided to take the opportunity to film some shallow water shots for a segment in the television program his daughter Bindi was hosting, when, according to his friend and colleague, John Stainton, he swam too close to one of the animals. "He came on top of the stingray and the stingray's barb went up and into his chest and put a hole into his heart," said Stainton, who was on board Irwin's boat the Croc One.

The events were caught on camera, and a copy of the footage was handed to the Queensland Police. After reviewing the footage of the incident and speaking to the cameraman who recorded it, marine documentary filmmaker and former spearfisherman Ben Cropp speculated that the stingray "felt threatened because Steve was alongside and there was the cameraman ahead." In such a case, the stingray responds to danger by automatically flexing the serrated barb on its tail (which can measure up to 25 cm or about 10 inches in length) in an upward motion.

Cropp said Irwin had accidentally boxed in the animal. "It stopped and twisted and threw up its tail with the spike, and it caught him in the chest. It's a defensive thing. It's like being stabbed with a dirty dagger." The stinging of Irwin by the bull ray was "a one-in-a-million thing," Cropp told Time magazine. "I have swum with many rays, and I have only had one do that to me."

Some reports have claimed that Irwin pulled the barb out of his chest shortly before losing consciousness. Irwin's colleague John Stainton suggested that this was the case when he first described the video to the media, saying, "Steve came over the top of the ray and the tail came up, and spiked him here [in the chest], and he pulled it out and the next minute he's gone." In a susbsequent CNN interview, however, he denied that Irwin pulled out the barb, insisting that the anecdote was "absolute rubbish". It is thought, in the absence of a coroner's report, that a combination of the toxins and the puncture wound from the barb caused Irwin to die of cardiac arrest, with most damage being inflicted by tears to arteries or other main blood vessels. It is also possible that he died quickly as a result of a punctured aorta. Until the coroner's report is released, however, the precise cause of Irwin's death remains conjecture.

Crew members aboard his boat called the emergency services in the nearest city of Cairns and administered CPR as they rushed the boat to nearby the Low Islets to meet a rescue helicopter. Medical staff pronounced Irwin dead when they arrived a short time later. According to Dr. Ed O'Loughlin, who treated Irwin, "it became clear fairly soon that he had non-survivable injuries. . . . He had a penetrating injury to the left front of his chest. He had lost his pulse and wasn't breathing."

Irwin's body was flown to a morgue in Cairns. His wife, Terri Irwin, was on a walking tour in Cradle Mountain-Lake St Clair National Park in Tasmania at the time, and returned via a private plane from Devonport to the Sunshine Coast with their two children.

As of 1996, only seventeen worldwide fatalities had been recorded due to stingrays, and the attack on Irwin is believed to be the only fatality from a stingray ever captured on film.

More at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_irwin

Zach, what's wrong with you?