Somewhat old riddle, care to take a guess? Maybe easy for some!?

Question

There is a death on the 51st floor of a 60 story building. It is reported to the police and 2 officers show up, a very fat (Officer 1) and a very skinny one (Officer 2). And guess what, there is no lift.

Officer 1 says "I'll never make it to the top, you go on and have a look and let me know what the scene is."

So officer 2 starts climbing and on the 35th floor, thinks "Oh forget it, its too high, I'll just make up some scene." So he starts heading down.

He finally arrives at the parking lot and officer 1 asks "So, whaddya see up there?". To that officer 2 replies, "Well it all looked completely messed up." Officer 1 yells "WHAT DID YOU SEE?!"

Office 1 says "Well, I saw an upside down clock stopped at 12:03, there was a book open with a pen between the pages 273/274 and there were three chairs on the floor making the shape "A".

Officer 2 slaps him and says "you didn't make it to the top, did ya?"

How did Officer 1 know that Officer 2 did not make it to the top?

Answer 1

officer 1 was the killer?

Answer 2

There is no between pages 273 and 274...theya re back to back.

Answer 3

Because page 273 and 274 wouldn't be able to have a pen between them. They're back to back in a book.

Answer 4

he was a jumper he jumped from the 51st floor.

Answer 5

there is no between pages 273 and 274

its always even number on left side and 274 was on the right side so officer 1 could tell officer 2 was lying

Answer 6

it onky takes 2 chairs to make an A on the floor

Answer 7

Because you cannot place a pen between pages 273/274 of a book because they opposite sides of the same sheet.

Answer 8

273 and 274 are the front and back of the  same page

Answer 9

A pen can not be s pen between pages 273 and 274 because they are are opposite sides of the paper to each other. It would have been quicker going to the top rather than go back down at floor 35, just an observation. I dont understand how chairs can make an "A" shape on the floor.

Answer 10

Because the officer was fat . and couldnt make it

Answer 11

you have reversed officer 1 with officer 2

Answer 12

I think it has something to do with the clock.

If it was upside down, then at first look at the clock, it would have read 6:27, before he noticed it was upside down.

Answer 13

Officer 1 was describing the scene when it was officer 2 who had climbed up to the 35th floor then decided to make it all up.

Answer 14

Pages 273/274 are two side of the same page so obviously no pen could have been between these pages!!!.

Answer 15

The book. The pages are front/back 1 sheet of paper so who is supposed to be able to place a pen there??

Answer 16

Office 1 says "Well, I saw an upside down clock stopped at 12:03, there was a book open with a pen between the pages 273/274 and there were three chairs on the floor making the shape "A".

The pages 273 is on one side of a page and 274 is on the other.. there cannot be a pen between them :) xx

Answer 17

the death is on the 51st floor, there are 60 floors to the top.even if made it to the 51st,where the crime was, he didn't make it to 60,which is the top.

and odd number would be the back/front to an even side

3 chairs cannot make an A