What kind of storm is always in a rush?

A Shopkeeper sold a few chickens to four different customers on a particular day. It was such that each customer purchased half of the remaining chickens and half the chicken more.

Can you find out how many chicken were sold by the shopkeeper on that day if we tell you that the fourth customer bought a single chicken ?

A man says, "Brothers and sisters, have I none, but that man's father is my father's son." Who is that man?

Spelt forwards I’m what you do every day, spelled backwards I’m something you hate. What am I?

There is something which you can be arrested for attempting but not for successfully completing.

John: "Hi Teacher, What is your favourite movie ?".
Chemistry Teacher: "Indium Cerium Platinum Iodine Oxygen Nitrogen".
Ten seconds later... John replied I got it.

Do you?

What is the word or phrase below?
R | E | A | D

There are 2 people near the river and both of them want to get on the other side. The boat can only take one of them. But they got across.
How?

How many times in a given day, minutes and hour clock comes in a straight line ?

John was visiting his friend Jacob. He found out that his friend's wife had just killed a burglar in self-defense.
John asks Jacob about what happened and he told that "His wife was watching television when suddenly the bell rang. She thought that it is her husband Jacob but she found the burglar who attacked her instantly and she got so frightened that she killed the burglar immediately with the knife.
John asked the police to arrest his friend's wife. Why?