Stupid interrogations

[Greenday]

A better argument would be to ask her at exactly what time was a specific quote said during the movie?

That'd be similar to the OP.

[Mongo Skruddgemire]

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.

But you need to look at it from the other side for a minute.

At 13:43 yesterday, I was asleep in my bed. This I know for a fact. But I could not tell you exactly when I went to bed. I clocked out of my job at 08:30 I know this for a fact since I was looking at the time clock software on my computer that said that the out punch was accepted at 08:30.

But not having a watch or even the cell phone with its clock, I could not tell you when I got to the car. Normally it takes me 5 minutes to walk to the car. I know this from the times that I had my watch. But yesterday I was walking on two @#$%ed up ankles and so I was walking slowly. Much slower than usual.

So if you were to ask me "When exactly did you get into your car?" there would be no way in the nine hells I could tell you that. I would have to guess.

Going on with my day I drove home (takes 11 minutes with average traffic) and sat down at my computer at home to do my facebook crap, check my mail, watch an episode of Mail Call on hulu.com, eat something while watching it, then at 10:05 I closed out my browser and went to bed.

But I didn't go to bed right then and there. I scraped my plate in the sink, rinsed it off a bit, tossed it in the dishwasher, went to the bathroom, took a dump, read the Tandy leather catalog, then went to bed. So when asked "When exactly did you go to bed?", the best I could tell you is sometime after 10:05...maybe 10 minutes later.

Now sometime between the time I went to sleep and the time I got up, a thunderstorm rolled in and flashed a bolt of lightning that gave off one hell of a loud peal of thunder. It woke me up. But since I didn't really care, I went back to sleep. "When was this thunderbolt?" Not a fucking clue. Just that it was between quarter-after 10 and 17:17 when I woke up.

I know that it was 17:17 since I have a watch in 24 hour time and the double numbers caught my eye.

But if an interrogator was on my ass trying to get me to tell him/her/it when the bolt came...I could not answer him in any detail.

You are correct in that it is very easy to know where you were during a day and even be able to say that "T-Time" you were in "L-Location".

But the flip side is that unless you happened to look at a watch within a few minutes either way of "I-Incident" you could not say with certainty when something happened in the details that some people demand.

So while you could say with clarity that at 10:22 you were watching TV and drinking Gin, could you tell me the exact time you poured the drink? When you finished it? When you thought "Gee! A Gin sounds really good right now"?

And that is what the OP is trying to say. That some people demand information that there is no way that one could honestly expect a detailed answer. Sure maybe you know those questions I asked and could give me a time/date stamp, but can you for every event in your life?

I don't mind being asked for as much detail as I can provide, but when I say between X and Y, that's as good as I can give since I don't look at a clock every second of the day. Some folks need to remember that.

[Mongo Skruddgemire]

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.

Was the "Naked" comment really needed? Yes there is a ongoing discussion/debate/argument going on in the Prudes thread about her balcony nudity, but is it really relevant to this thread?

I agree that pulling the fact that she posted at the same time she claims to have been taking a shower makes your point that recollections can be skewed and that someone could misinterpret that gap in exact chronology as potential guilt. Good one there.

But let's discuss her nudity on that thread while we discuss interrogation techniques, memory and chronology here in this one.

[Plaidman]

Was the "Naked" comment really needed? Yes there is a ongoing discussion/debate/argument going on in the Prudes thread about her balcony nudity, but is it really relevant to this thread?

I admit I'm going overboard on her ego on the nudity.

But it did have a point in my mind, as it does refer to her standard protocol during the day, as she stated it's what she does. On a day she says she DIDNT do it, it might have caused a red flag, as it's like clockwork for what she does. It's a part of her day.

Omitting the part on the balcony, might have been her defense from the accident death of a pot falling on a peeping tom's head in her front yard.

(Just an example, not saying she would do that).

[Red Panda]

I wasn't checking the weather yet because I was in the shower.

A better argument would be to ask her at exactly what time was a specific quote said during the movie?

That'd be similar to the OP.

They call me MISTER Tibbs!


Nah, it was actually later in the movie then that.

[Tanasi]

When I was much younger I got the third degree from my Mom about everything, eventually I told her she could give lessons to SERE school instructors at Ft. Rucker. That made her angry but she did get the message I didn't like the questioning.