Situation puzzles inspired by real events

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

Students are taking an exam at military academy. One of them chooses a ticket and goes to his seat to get prepared. After some minutes he goes to the professor, silently gives him the student's record-book and leaves the classroom. The student got the excellent.

Jack goes on a trip with his compass. After a long walk, he stops to eat a sandwich. He is not able to find his way back afterwards.

Michael manages to get shot; in doing so he saves his own life.

Anthony couldn't have imagine his cold would be the cause of his death.

A salesman tries too hard to get a sale and as a result ends up dying.

A man is found dead in a filed. Lying next to him is an unopened package.

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

In the 1950s in America there was invented a chicken gun. What for?

How do you get a full-grown pear inside a bottle of brandy?

A man is stranded on an island covered in forest. One day, when the wind is blowing from the west, lightning strikes the west end of the island and sets fire to the forest. The fire is very violent, burning everything in its path, and without intervention the fire will burn the whole island, killing the man in the process. There are cliffs around the island, so he cannot jump off. How can the man survive the fire? (There are no buckets or any other means to put out the fire)

The son of a rich man was kidnapped. The kidnapper wanted the rich man to bring and put the expensive diamond into the call-box located in a city park. Policemen surrounded this park, intending to catch the criminal. The father of the kidnapped child came to the call-box and did everything the kidnapper said to him, but the police could not prevent the cunning criminal from taking the diamond out of the call-box. They didn't grab the villian as well. What did he do?