Lateral Thinking: A boy and his father are in a car crash , the father dies and the boy is rushed to hospital .The

Question: Lateral Thinking: A boy and his father are in a car crash , the father dies and the boy is rushed to hospital .The surgeon who operates on the boy says "I can not operate on this boy as he is my son!" How can the boy be the surgeons son ?
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Asked by louxxx to Alex, Jools, Lynz, Matt, Rika on 15 Jun 2011.
- Matthew Dickinson answered on 15 Jun 2011:
  
  The farther in the car could have been a priest.
  
  Good Answer Julie, much better than mine, love it.
- Julie Greensmith answered on 15 Jun 2011:
  
  The surgeon is the boy’s mother! Women make great doctors!!
- Alex Davenport answered on 15 Jun 2011:
  
  Because the Surgeon is the boys mother 😉
  
  * EDIT* hehe Matthew, I thought that first too!
- Lyndsey Fox answered on 15 Jun 2011:
  
  Well I think you guys have got this one covered lol
- Chandrika Nair answered on 15 Jun 2011:
  
  Yes I definitely agree with the ‘surgeon is the mother of the boy’ hypothesis. Alternatively, the surgeon could also be his adoptive father if he was brought up by a gay couple.

Jools commented on 15 Jun 2011:

We use these types of logic puzzles to test the intelligence of the computer systems that I build! Also they are great fun to do! 😀

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Question: Lateral Thinking: A boy and his father are in a car crash , the father dies and the boy is rushed to hospital .The surgeon who operates on the boy says "I can not operate on this boy as he is my son!" How can the boy be the surgeons son ?