Stupid interrogations

[DrFaroohk]

I hate being interrogated, because I suck at it. I have a shitty memory.

Take for example, I might say "Tony called me a douchebag."

In comes the interrogater: "What EXACTLY, WORD FOR WORD DID HE SAY!?!?!?"

"He called me a douchebag."

"BUT WHAT EXACTLY DID HE SAY?!?!?!?"

How the fuck do I know? I don't remember that part. My memory saw that particular detail as irrelevent and discarded it. I save what I need to, dump the rest. Because it doesn't matter. It doesn't matter one damn bit if tony said "DrFaroohk is a douchebag" , or "You're a douchebag", or "You are such a douchebag", or "I think you're a douchebag", or "You're such a fucking douchebag".

Anyway, I hate it. But people love to do it because they think it makes them smart. I get this from cops a lot:

"what time did this happen?"

"About 3 p.m."

"I didn't ask you ABOUT what time it happened, I asked what time it happened!"

Again, it doesn't matter. Anywhere between 2:50 and 3:10 is "about" 3 p.m. And I don't bother recollecting that tiny detail because it's irrelevent and also FLAWED. No two clocks on the planet will show the same time. I have 6 clocks in my house and not one of them shows the same time. One says its 7:41, one says its 7:45, one says 7:39, etc...

So yeah. Fuck off, interrogaters.

[Red Panda]

The exact time is important in a matter of a crime. If a person was killed at 2:50 and your alibi places you somewhere at 3:10 then you had 20 minutes to clean up and get away. However if they place you somewhere at 2:55 then you are in a better position.

[Ladeeda]

If you actually looked at the clock the exact moment a murder took place, you're probably the murderer. That's the only (living) person who would know for sure.

I don't check the clock every second of my life, ya know.

[Red Panda]

Its not hard to know where you are at anytime.

If I were asked where I was at 143 pm yesterday I would be able to tell you. I can tell you where I was at any point of the day without staring at a clock.

[Plaidman]

Its not hard to know where you are at anytime.

If I were asked where I was at 143 pm yesterday I would be able to tell you. I can tell you where I was at any point of the day without staring at a clock.

Ok... where were you yesterday, at oh, 10:22 am?

[Red Panda]

I was in my house drinking gin and watching In the Heat of the Night.

[Plaidman]

And that was it?

[Red Panda]

At that time yes.

[DrFaroohk]

It's not about where you are at a particular time. I know that at 7:02 a.m., I was at work. At 9:36 a.m., I was also at work. Last night at 11:27 p.m, I was at home.

But if someone asked me: "What time was your first break at work?" I would say "about 9:30." It wasn't at 9:30, I'm pretty sure it was not exactly at 9:30. But the breaks are always between 9:20 and 9:40 or so. Even that's a rough guess. Sometimes we go on break at 9. Or 10. But it';s usually 9:30. Same as what time I got home tonight. About 5. I have no idea, because I didn't glance at a clock as soon as I walked in so I'd know exactly what time it was.

Anyway, while I know that specific times like that are important to crimes, I was also thinking more of personal issues. Such as a jealous husband who constantly suspects his wife of cheating. "WHAT TIME DID YOU GET OFF WORK????"

"Around 5."

"Oh, AROUND FIVE? YOU MUST BE LYING!"

My dad was like that too. It was more like when he was pissed off anyway, and just felt like giving someone a ration of shit. You were guilty of whatever as soon as it entered his mind that there was something to be guilty of. He would ask the necessary questions to make you guilty, because no matter what you said he could destroy your argument with his stupid interrogations.

The worst though, is the people who will do it to you, but will not allow you to do it back to them. Right as soon as you start in with the "Well, how often..." or "When did it happen?" Stuff they cut you off and go into intimidator mode, where by being able to "Shhhh." and "Zippit!" your argument meant that they were obviously right.

[Plaidman]

Best thing to do bro, and it took me many, many.... MANY years to figure this out, is to be quiet to those that try to imidate you.

The only person in life that should be able to imtimidate you, is your own self-esteem.

Are there people out there scary? Yes. They are. There are people that would kill you for daring to look at them in a /wrong/ way. There are people that hit you, because they think your laughing at them when in fact your laughing at a joke your friend just said.

But when it comes to the aggressors and people that try to feed on your fear for their own power? Don't back down. Don't give them anything. Even one word answers would suffice.

[Red Panda]

Ok... where were you yesterday, at oh, 10:22 am?

I must look like an alcholic I thought that said pm. In the morning at that time I was in the shower.

[Hobbs]

Am I the only one amused that, in a thread titled "Stupid interrogations", one has actually been started?

[Plaidman]

I must look like an alcholic I thought that said pm. In the morning at that time I was in the shower.

What difference would pm and am be for drinking?

Not all people work during the day. There is alot of people that work all night, so the only time they get to have their nightly drink, is ironically in the morning. It's just how it works for them. So they tend to have to wait until legal hours are open if they didn't buy it the night before.

Your only an alcholic if you do nothing BUT drink, think about nothing BUT drinking, even if it's killing you.

Judging by alot of your timestamps here, you also showed alot of time here during that time frame. So did you post alot here, took a shower, went outside naked to decide what to wear, go back in, get dress, and get back to posting?

[the_std]

Judging by alot of your timestamps here, you also showed alot of time here during that time frame. So did you post alot here, took a shower, went outside naked to decide what to wear, go back in, get dress, and get back to posting?

Plaid, I just have to know... Even if that was exactly how she spent that part of her day, what does it have to do anything? I do stuff like that all the time. I see no way at all in which this would invalidate her argument.

[Plaidman]

Plaid, I just have to know... Even if that was exactly how she spent that part of her day, what does it have to do anything? I do stuff like that all the time. I see no way at all in which this would invalidate her argument.

Oh it doesn't. She just said that she knows where she is every minute of every day, and that's what police want to know. Know it's discovered that she said she was taking a shower, though time stamps on the boards says she was posting around that time also.

She very likely WAS taking a shower at that time. But she was also posting around that time. Something she didn't mention, which if it was told to a cop, may have been implied she was hiding something from him.


DrFarook point still stands in that not everybody knows where one is at every second of the day.