Lateral Thinking

[iridium_ionizer]

That'd make sense except for this:

"They all had made quite fair amounts."

Factor in the preceding lines:

With separate scores for everyone. When they had come to square accounts. They all had made quite fair amounts.

[spoiler:256f95082c]They were performing music (musical scores) and taking donations into a pot. When they finished performing they divided the money in the pot evenly, everyone getting the same fair amount.[/spoiler:256f95082c]
A new one from NPR's show Car Talk which has a new Puzzler every week (many of them are not about cars).

High Speed Chase
RAY: This puzzler was submitted by Chuck Leyderer. Chuck writes, "Sargent O'Malley and his rookie assistant Ned are just pulling out of the local donut shop. They get a call on the radio that the town north of them has had a bank robbery. The suspects are proceeding south, and it's a high-speed chase.

"The chase has been going on for 40 minutes, and O'Malley and Ned should be on the lookout for a yellow Mustang with two men in the front seat and a woman in the back. The State Police were in hot pursuit, but they lost them right as they were headed towards Centerville, where O'Malley and Ned work.

"What should happen, but as O'Malley and Ned are pulling out of the donut shop, they happen to see that very car with two guys in the front and a woman in the back. Sargent O'Malley says, 'That's the car, Ned! We're going to go after it. Flip on the siren, and let's get 'em!'"

"Ned, who's been studying the back of the car, says, 'I don't think so, Sarge. It's not them.'"

Just what did Ned see?

 

[Blakut]

Cause the car was headed towards Centerville, where the two work. But they weren't at work, they were at a donut shop.

 

[iridium_ionizer]

"Ned, who's been studying the back of the car, says, 'I don't think so, Sarge. It's not them.'"

Just what did Ned see?

Solution:
[spoiler:24343d68f6]

RAY: Here's the answer. What Ned did see coming out of the back of the car was water dripping out of the tailpipe. And if there had been a high-speed chase for 40 minutes --

TOM: That engine would be boiling hot . . .

RAY: And so would the exhaust system, and that heat would have vaporized all the water that was in that exhaust system. And as these guys pulled away, Ned saw a whole bunch of water spill out of the tailpipe. As you know water is one of the products of combustion, but when the exhaust system gets up to temperature, that water gets converted into steam and it's invisible. So they couldn't have been the ones in the high-speed chase for 40 minutes.

[/spoiler:24343d68f6]

 

[Stanislao Moulinsky]

A woman is running from "bandidos" in south america with 2 gold spheres, each with a weight of 4,5Kg. She comes across a bridge with a sign saying "max weight 50kg", which happens to be completely true. She weights 45,5Kg and doesnt has time to drop a shpere and come back for it after. How can she cross the bridge with both spheres? - the silly one

[spoiler:ae157ebe22][youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=chPkGSwtusM[/youtube][/spoiler:ae157ebe22]

 

[victor]

She uses her knowledge of structural mechanics to reinforce the bridge, allowing it to support more than 50 kg.

 

[Sander]

A woman is running from "bandidos" in south america with 2 gold spheres, each with a weight of 4,5Kg. She comes across a bridge with a sign saying "max weight 50kg", which happens to be completely true. She weights 45,5Kg and doesnt has time to drop a shpere and come back for it after. How can she cross the bridge with both spheres? - the silly one

[spoiler:928417eebd][youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=chPkGSwtusM[/youtube][/spoiler:928417eebd]

Juggling doesn't work, the total weight of your system is still 54,5kg.

Also, throw one sphere across, duh.

@iridium_ionizer: That's not lateral thinking nor a good riddle. It's just cherry-picking one possibility from a legion of possibilities.

 

[Arr0nax]

Juggling doesn't work, the total weight of your system is still 54,5kg.

Does not... compute
Can you explain a little bit ? Do you mean at any moment (like, when one sphere is in the air) the pressure on the bridge is 54,5kg ?
I mean, when the second sphere fall down and you get it, I suppose the pressure peak to more than 50kg, but to say it's always 54,5kg just seems... strange

I would just try playing some bowling... I mean, take some skills, but if the bridge's not too long it should be doable

 

[Sander]

Does not... compute
Can you explain a little bit ? Do you mean at any moment (like, when one sphere is in the air) the pressure on the bridge is 54,5kg ?
I mean, when the second sphere fall down and you get it, I suppose the pressure peak to more than 50kg, but to say it's always 54,5kg just seems... strange

No, that's the weight of the system.
When you throw a weight up, that creates a direct reaction equal to the force you expended in throwing it up, aimed downwards toward the bridge. That's why even though you're not carrying the ball, the system doesn't get lighter.

 

[Aphyosis]

Sander is correct.

 

[alec]

Sander is always correct.

 

[Kilus]

She does a 4.5 kg shit before going on the bridge.