Dear Secret Agent:
I know that you are overworked and underpaid (Oh wait! Not paid at all!), but crime doesn’t wait! We need your help on this case right away. Your expertise and level of skill are unique and a powerful resource in the crime solving field. Please use your gifts of creativity and deep thinking to solve this case!
The Case: A man named W.N. Fuzzy (short for Warm N. Fuzzy) has committed a silly and yet very serious crime. (Btw, what kind of first name is “Warm?!” No wonder this man has resorted to a life of crime!) Warm N. Fuzzy has a weird love of warm fuzzy socks and has been quietly sneaking into the homes of each and every town in New York to steal all of their socks. It may not seem like much of a problem now, but the agency has been doing some calculations. At the ridiculous speed that Fuzzy is moving, all of New York will be sock-less by the end of the month. What is worse is that by winter there will not be a single sock left in the country! All of those freezing cold feet will lead to many cases of the common cold…a cold epidemic even! It still seems rather harmless, doesn’t it? But if everyone is out sick from work, who will run the state? And who will make the millions of tissues that will be needed to stop all of the runny noses?]
The Details: There seems to be an obvious solution, but the problem is that as fast as we can make the socks, Warm N. Fuzzy seems to find a way to sneak into houses, shipping trucks, stores, and warehouses to steal them. Also it seems that maybe it would be possible to substitute gloves or some other sort of material item to use as socks. Warm N. Fuzzy seems obsessed with socks, so he might not steal these items and no one would have to lose any toes! However…our extremely technical clothing lab has researched the effectiveness of such substitutions and found that these will not hold the necessary amount of body heat. It turns out that socks are a truly unique invention and are the only item that can do the job.
We tried to track the whereabouts of his stash by putting a tracking device in one of the socks before it was stolen. It seems as if Warm N. Fuzzy was on to our plan, because we found the device hidden in another country. We, the agency, spent hours traveling to a small island in the Mediterranean to get our device and hopefully find these socks. Instead we found the device by itself in a box, no socks to be seen! The only other thing in this box was a note from Warm N. Fuzzy that said, “You’re getting colder, not warmer.” His clever pun told us that we weren’t doing a good job of seeking him out and also that he has no remorse about the horrible effects of his mischievous crimes.
We also tried luring him into a trap by setting up a spy camera and at the same time sitting nearby to catch him in the act. We had many men and women watching, but they all fell asleep and woke up sock-less! Our research lab (not the highly technical clothing research lab, but the highly technical sleep lab) found that he somehow filled the air with particles of a chemical that put everyone into a deep sleep. Warm N. Fuzzy obviously didn’t fall asleep, but our experts can’t figure out how he does it. (By the way…he took the camera with him…)
Your role: Please help the agency devise a plan to catch Warm N. Fuzzy and restore those happy feet! Please remember what we have already tried and the limitations that have been encountered.
Good luck!
Secret Agent Ten Toes
I know that you are overworked and underpaid (Oh wait! Not paid at all!), but crime doesn’t wait! We need your help on this case right away. Your expertise and level of skill are unique and a powerful resource in the crime solving field. Please use your gifts of creativity and deep thinking to solve this case!
The Case: A man named W.N. Fuzzy (short for Warm N. Fuzzy) has committed a silly and yet very serious crime. (Btw, what kind of first name is “Warm?!” No wonder this man has resorted to a life of crime!) Warm N. Fuzzy has a weird love of warm fuzzy socks and has been quietly sneaking into the homes of each and every town in New York to steal all of their socks. It may not seem like much of a problem now, but the agency has been doing some calculations. At the ridiculous speed that Fuzzy is moving, all of New York will be sock-less by the end of the month. What is worse is that by winter there will not be a single sock left in the country! All of those freezing cold feet will lead to many cases of the common cold…a cold epidemic even! It still seems rather harmless, doesn’t it? But if everyone is out sick from work, who will run the state? And who will make the millions of tissues that will be needed to stop all of the runny noses?]
The Details: There seems to be an obvious solution, but the problem is that as fast as we can make the socks, Warm N. Fuzzy seems to find a way to sneak into houses, shipping trucks, stores, and warehouses to steal them. Also it seems that maybe it would be possible to substitute gloves or some other sort of material item to use as socks. Warm N. Fuzzy seems obsessed with socks, so he might not steal these items and no one would have to lose any toes! However…our extremely technical clothing lab has researched the effectiveness of such substitutions and found that these will not hold the necessary amount of body heat. It turns out that socks are a truly unique invention and are the only item that can do the job.
We tried to track the whereabouts of his stash by putting a tracking device in one of the socks before it was stolen. It seems as if Warm N. Fuzzy was on to our plan, because we found the device hidden in another country. We, the agency, spent hours traveling to a small island in the Mediterranean to get our device and hopefully find these socks. Instead we found the device by itself in a box, no socks to be seen! The only other thing in this box was a note from Warm N. Fuzzy that said, “You’re getting colder, not warmer.” His clever pun told us that we weren’t doing a good job of seeking him out and also that he has no remorse about the horrible effects of his mischievous crimes.
We also tried luring him into a trap by setting up a spy camera and at the same time sitting nearby to catch him in the act. We had many men and women watching, but they all fell asleep and woke up sock-less! Our research lab (not the highly technical clothing research lab, but the highly technical sleep lab) found that he somehow filled the air with particles of a chemical that put everyone into a deep sleep. Warm N. Fuzzy obviously didn’t fall asleep, but our experts can’t figure out how he does it. (By the way…he took the camera with him…)
Your role: Please help the agency devise a plan to catch Warm N. Fuzzy and restore those happy feet! Please remember what we have already tried and the limitations that have been encountered.
Good luck!
Secret Agent Ten Toes
