One BILLION dollars, two guns, and 3 strips of bacon...

[dude]

One billion dollars. Two guns. One is empty. Would you do it?

 

[dude]

50-50 chance. I would.

It's like the casino. Except, without the 5% commission if you win.

 

[dude]

Soooo.... Who's got a billion that wants to dare me?

 

[zippy]

I'd grab the billion dollars and take both guns and shoot the guy who dared me!

 

[blurredvision]

I wouldn't do it. Guess I'm just pessimistic, and don't think I'd win.

 

[abracadabra1]

damnit give me the one on the left...
click....did i win??

 

[geno]

Sure why not

 

[uncouth]

obviously you take the gun. I mean, whats the worst that can happen? Probably get a bullet in the gut, leg, arm, or lung... These wounds are more or less repairable. Besides its better to be injured, even serverely, or even dead, than to live a life of regret and forever "what if-ing".

A better solution is to take the billion dollars. I mean, what is the highest real denomination of the dollar? $100s? maybe $1000s? Even if it was $100,000s there would still be enough paper to stop a bullet not to mention rewallpaper the Pentegon. And unless these guns are medieval cannons the hole would be small enough so that you could still use the dough and the bullet would only damage about 1 million dollars at best. Say to the other fellow: "give me 2 minutes" and in the hiatus make a fort of money.


and here is a technical issue with this question: One billion dollars. Two guns. what if we are talking about suitcases here? maybe this really reads 1) billion dollars 2) guns and then it goes on to say that Oneis empty? What if the dude is saying that 1) is empty? take the guns... they're not empty.

 

[Pretender]

The chances are the money is in the form of a check....one billion dollars, even in hundreds, would be 10 million bills, or 100,000 stacks of bills. Assuming the dimensions of the stack are 6"x2.5"x1.5", so the area of each stack would be 22.5 cubic inches, so the area of the room would have to be 2.25 million cubic inches, which is pretty large.

From that, we can determine that the money would be in check form, and most likely, a check can't stop a bullet. Anyway, still go for it, and if you find that you don't have the gun with ammo, just move erraticly so he can't hit you well.

 

[thebestMAX]

One more of these threads and Im going to use both guns on you!!!!

 

[Czar]

I´d take the money, I have nothing to do with two guns

 

[Superwombat]

I'd go ahead and take both guns too, you never can have too many guns...

 

[JeffreyLebowski]

This ones easy,

Take the gun. Extend your empty hand for a hand shake, and say "good luck" when he shakes your hand smack the SOB in the head with the butt of the gun. He'll drop his gun and now you can't lose.


Also before anything happens, make sure you get a legal document that says there can be no legal or civil charges brought against you.

 

[dude]

Man, you guys find all the ways out of the question, don't you! Some of you would make good defense attorneys....

and {b]Pretender[/b], you've thought about this before haven't ya?

 

[urbantechie]

Dude? You can't go wrong if there are three strips of bacon!!!!

 

[dude]

I wish there were more...

 

[dude]

mm.... bacon....

 

[sandorski]

What kind of bacon is it?

 

[konichiwa]

:Q

I'm confused.

 

[Imported]

I'm confused too..

Can't you just pop out the clip or something?

 

[Looney]

Nope... who's to say 1 billion dollar will make you any more happier?

 

[Sluggo]

How much bacon could you buy for a billion dollars, that might make me wanna take the challenge.

 

[sandorski]

Ah, never thought of it that way. You could buy any kind of bacon too!

 

[laelb]

Umm...I'd take the bacon.