Riddle i cant solve D:

Lionessxx | 08:44 Thu 25th Jun 2009 | Riddles

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A small boy went for a walk in the park with his grandfather's hat on. He took a boat out on a lake, the boat capsized, the boy was drown. What became of the old mans hat?

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another-view

Not enough information to solve but presumably it floated away and was picked up by someone?

Taylortax

It was still on the old man's head - it was the boy that drowned. ?

Lionessxx

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It was on the boys head.. and the boy drowned? All i know is that the answer has to do with the wording =/ only hint ive had

redcrx

it got wet?

factor-fiction

Well I'm not convinced the wording is exactly right as there are some grammatical/spelling errors in there. If the wording is key to this you'll need to be sure you specify the wording correctly. Can you check it?

Lionessxx

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I did. Everything about it is correct. And the errors is supposed to be a clue to the answert

factor-fiction

The boy was drown? Mans hat without an apostrophe?
Are you saying this poor English is a clue to the answer?

I think the answer is that the cap sank.The reference to 'boat capsized 'could mean the boat was cap sized- that is, the size of a cap. No wonder it sank.

another-view

The boat capsized should be the boat WAS capsized if that were true.
It doesn't mention that his hat was a cap.

factor-fiction

Well some of the other English is poor ("the boy was drown") so why shouldn't that bit have been carelessly written / deliberately miswritten too.

I'm not convinced there is an answer unless it's something extremely silly like:

-the hat is on thepark (as the first sentence says..." the park with his grandfather's hat on")
-the grandfather is called SAT ON
-or this is based on an incident in an old fairy tale/nursery rhyme

But as I say I don't think there is an answer. I've seen this on another forum with someone offerring a large reward for the answer. I think it was just a wind-up.