Being an off the wall thinker means you come up with novel solution to everyday situations. It does not matter if the solution is high tech or low tech, only that it works. In the 1870s, famous German professor Rudolph Virchano, criticized the Iron Chancellor of Germany, Otto von Bismarck. Bismarck was furious and challenged the professor to a duel. Protocol allowed the professor to choose the weapons. He chose sausages. He sent two large sausages to Bismarck with the note: “One of these is infected with the deadly germs of trichinosis, the other is perfectly sound. Let His Excellency do me the honor to choose whichever he wishes, and eat it. I will eat the other.” An hour later the duel was called off. [See my books at https://authormasterminds.com/master-of-the-impossible-crime.]