For serious. To continue with Frank Pembleton, I always remember his explanation of the detective's job as a salesman, "selling a long prison term to a customer who has no use for the product."
When you look back at this, in the three seconds it'll take you to turn to dust, I think you'll find the mistake was touching my stuff.
Buffy ,'Lessons'
Natter 64: Yes, we still need you
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
brenda m - Dec 30, 2009 2:59:52 pm PST #28205 of 30001
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
Tom Scola - Dec 30, 2009 3:00:47 pm PST #28206 of 30001
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
Martha Stewart didn't go to prison for the thing she was charged with, she went to prison for talking to the Feds without a lawyer.
DavidS - Dec 30, 2009 3:30:15 pm PST #28207 of 30001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
They even did "It'd be a shame for you to take the whole blame for this thing yourself." Names come pouring out.
It's funny watching how they equivocate at first. They don't want to snitch. But the cops just keep circling around on the story until little details start hanging loose, and they pull on the thread and it starts to unravel.
The police also did some good detective work with the CSI unit. Did you know that condoms come in lot numbers? Yep. So an unopened condom can be linked to the box in your bedroom.
erikaj - Dec 30, 2009 3:33:57 pm PST #28208 of 30001
Always Anti-fascist!
Yeah, there is a court decision that says cops can lie their asses off to get confessions...I looked it up for a fanfic but I forget. ETA: Terry McClarney, who is a Baltimore detective that David Simon is a big fanboy of, says that the biggest change in law enforcement in twenty years is that cops can tell a cornerboy they found epithelial cells(sp) and the cornerboy will feel screwed. I freaked out on my father when he suggested my brother handle his DUI without an attorney. I'm not sure that even whiteboy justice is that good. My dad doesn't watch enough TV sometimes.
Vortex - Dec 30, 2009 3:38:18 pm PST #28209 of 30001
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
Yes, the police are allowed to lie to a suspect in an attempt to coerce a confession, decided in Frazier v. Cupp.
Steph L. - Dec 30, 2009 3:45:32 pm PST #28210 of 30001
I look more rad than Lutheranism
So an unopened condom can be linked to the box in your bedroom.
Moral of the story? Use 'em up, people!
§ ita § - Dec 30, 2009 3:53:29 pm PST #28211 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Moral of the story? Use 'em up, people!
Or, not at all, I guess. You are the bad guy, after all.
Hey, how did someone get busted by condom?
tommyrot - Dec 30, 2009 3:55:15 pm PST #28212 of 30001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
It broke?
tommyrot - Dec 30, 2009 4:08:07 pm PST #28213 of 30001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Map of the World in Which Countries Are Weighted by the Number of Languages They Have Produced
Wow. Go teams Indonesien and Papua-Nya Guinea.
I think the deal with Papua-Nya Guinea is there's a whole bunch of tribes living in the rain forest completely isolated from each other. Oh wait, the caption confirms this:
Deep valleys and unforgiving terrain have kept the different tribes of Papua New Guinea relatively isolated, so that the groups’ languages are not blended together but remain distinct. While the country is thought to have over 800 living languages, some, like Abaga, are spoken by as few as five(!) people.
Calli - Dec 30, 2009 4:57:06 pm PST #28214 of 30001
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
My father realized the other day that he has in fact outlived his term life insurance. Any guesses what it costs to insure a 70 year old man with a history of heart attacks? Yeah. So I have a couple of days to figure out what to do about that. He certainly can't afford what they want - even at the old rate it was a struggle on his combo of Veteran's disability, SS, and seasonal part-time job.
Have you checked to see if he can get life insurance through the VA? My dad had a Veteran's policy that my sister and I split after he died. He was a WWII vet, and I don't know if the potential benefits differ depending on when one served, though. Still, it might be worth exploring.