Situation puzzles inspired by real events

The man was afraid to go home because the man in the mask was there.

A man is running, a crowd is running after him. The man is screaming to the crowd:"You will never see the gold!" and he starts shooting. People who observe all that are exulting.

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)

An artist took an order to paint a portrait of a very ugly and arrogant woman. Everyone tried to dissuade him, claiming that she wouldn’t pay a penny, because the portrait would be bad. And so it happened. But two days later, the woman returned and begged the artist to sell her the portrait. Why?

Due to an oversight committed by Nils when doing his job, Martha, an upstairs neighbour, couldn’t wash the dishes. At the same time, Martha’s husband was glad, but Nils was still fired. Why?

Bill always wore a silk scarf to work, whatever the weather. What’s his job, and why does he need this scarf?

Gordon came to see Harry and gave him a few strikes in the stomach. Then, they had a short talk, and he struck a few more times. Harry died a couple of days later. What happened?

When it turned out that the painting was fake, it became 10 times more expensive. How did it happen?

Marmalade helped Bill to skip school with impunity. How did he do it?

They had to throw away plenty of their valuables, but it didn’t made them upset. What happened?

When kids were watching TV, they were not frigthened so much. But when they saw others suffering, they realized that something was not right.

The woman is speaking something and she is upset. Nobody can understand her but a man is filming her on camera. Why? And what is happening?