riddle

[webberemma]

there is a man in the middle of the field... DEAD...and he has a bag full of silk next to him..how did he die?

[BigDave44]

The man had jumped from a plane but his parachute had failed to open.

http://andersenxl.com/think/Lateral.htm

[B-BOY]

The man was a part time Arabian silk merchant with a dicky ticker and a rather embarrassing body odour problem who just happened to pick the middle of that particular field to drop dead.