Easy situation puzzles

John was walking along the snow-covered field. When he came to a lonely tree, he saw the corpse of a man hanging on the tree. He died the last night from strangulation, but there were no traces around him, except John's ones.

Michael applaused, and everyone in the room (except him) died. What happened?

A hospital director recently confirmed that many that many of people admitted to his hospital were not ill at all. They were perfectly healthy, yet were given hospital care and treatment.

Roger sees the light and he becomes paralyzed. Soon after that he dies.

A woman is looking through the window and sees a man with a knife. However, she does not have enough time to call the police before being murdered.

Matthew keeps reading a bedtime story to his son despite the blackout.

A woman asks a driver to take her home. The whole way she talks, too much. The taxist tells her: "I'm sorry but I am deaf." The woman falls silent. But when she goes out of the taxi, she understands that the driver isn't deaf.

A man kills his brother in front of a crowd of people. However, no one reports him.

A mother-in-law disliked her son-in-law so much that she wanted to poison him. But the son-in-law was careful and always ate only what his mother-in-law ate. Over dinner one night, the mother-in-law cut a piece of meat in half, ate one half herself, and gave the other to her son-in-law. After that he died. How did she manage to do it?

Four college students were late for a lecture and explained it to the lecturer by having a flat tire. The smart lecturer quickly proved to the rest of the audience that the latecomers had lied. How?

A company produced knives for peeling potatoes. The manufacturers wanted to increase sales of their products and decided: if the knives disappear more often in homes, then housewives will buy new ones. How did they embody their idea?

He was very calm. However, they kept beating him until he screamed. After that, she was happy. Why?