Poll: Do you think you could get away with the perfect crime?
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Not to question your plans for world domination or anything, but how does being far prettier help your case, exactly?MaxTheReaper said:
Alright, what if there's a Poirot that actually just wants justice to be served instead of posing two different versions of events (after being given a confession). (Yeah, I just went and looked it up).The_root_of_all_evil said:
...anyway, I'm pretty sure that Poirot's the one doing all the murders anyway. I mean, he's always there. What better way to get away with murder than to be the one doing the investigation?
Then there's another unsolvable murder.Lukeje said:
You think he's bad, how about being related to Jessica Fletcher?
Due to loop holes in our great british law you can only commit theft if you "knowingly, dishonestly appropriate property belonging to another, and make it unretrieveable" this means you've got 4 methods
1) You 'don't know' your stealing the gold.
2) Your given the gold
3) It's your gold
4) You take it but don't spend it, but hide it in switerland (this lowers the offence to a TWOC (taking without the owners consent) which is a summary(small) offence. When you have served your small(1-2 years, compared to possible life) sentence collect the gold and live in a foriegn country SORTED.
I don't advocate stealing
1) You 'don't know' your stealing the gold.
2) Your given the gold
3) It's your gold
4) You take it but don't spend it, but hide it in switerland (this lowers the offence to a TWOC (taking without the owners consent) which is a summary(small) offence. When you have served your small(1-2 years, compared to possible life) sentence collect the gold and live in a foriegn country SORTED.
I don't advocate stealing
one of the greatest hoaxes put over on the American population bia our TV culture is that crimes are usualy discoverd and the bad guys cought.
crime isnt hard, you dont even need a 'perfect' one. hell id be willing to be that everyone here that has a drivers license has broken the law within the last few days.
truth is its only the truly STUPID criminols that ever get cought, the guy smiling and waving at the TV camera as he robs a bank and so on.
think about this also, usualy the cops have no more skill than the local crimes they deal with, meaning that while a big city might have a 'CSI' level crime lab that can be used to solve otherwise impossable crimes, most places in this nation arent in big citys, and when your local police force consists of uncle Andy and his 2 brothers and a nephiew (dont laugh my very own local police force has 6 officers and 4 of them are related) its not too hard for otis to break into the chiken coup and make off with aunt Beas prize wining hen. the abilitys of the police tend to scale only with the abilitys of the criminols they deal with. and while we would like to think that ALL cops are somewhat superheros and have this reputation of being good at their jobs, that just isnt so. people are people, and while there are some great cops thre is also boat loads of shitty ones. and while there are boat loads of ignorant criminols there are a few smart ones. so yeah i DO think i could actualy get away with the perfect crime if i chose to, based on simple laws of probibility.
we like too think that our cops, by virtue of them being 'good guys' have some kind of natural advantage over criminols because they are 'bad guys' but i can assure you this isnt true. putting on a badge doesnt come with a promise from God that you will be any smarter/more lucky/wiser than those who break the laws. you might have more advantages in general, but you NEED them to even stay in shouting distance from criminols that need no advantages in the first place. crime is often simple and with a bit of common sense CANT be solved for various reasons. most criminols are cought because they keep repeating their crimes and give a pattern to work with, or they are stupid enough to brag about having gotten away with it it after words. i concider that just natures way of weeding out the idiots in the gene pool. and thats another aspect too all this. bad criminols WILL be cought and weeded out, bad cops most often arent and can spend their entire lives on the job, wasting time, space, and resources that could be put to better use. that means that while bad criminols get cought be average cops, that the really GOOD criminols are often facing those same average cops and its no real contest. bad guys win.
bottom line "if crime didnt pay than there would be no criminols"
crime isnt hard, you dont even need a 'perfect' one. hell id be willing to be that everyone here that has a drivers license has broken the law within the last few days.
truth is its only the truly STUPID criminols that ever get cought, the guy smiling and waving at the TV camera as he robs a bank and so on.
think about this also, usualy the cops have no more skill than the local crimes they deal with, meaning that while a big city might have a 'CSI' level crime lab that can be used to solve otherwise impossable crimes, most places in this nation arent in big citys, and when your local police force consists of uncle Andy and his 2 brothers and a nephiew (dont laugh my very own local police force has 6 officers and 4 of them are related) its not too hard for otis to break into the chiken coup and make off with aunt Beas prize wining hen. the abilitys of the police tend to scale only with the abilitys of the criminols they deal with. and while we would like to think that ALL cops are somewhat superheros and have this reputation of being good at their jobs, that just isnt so. people are people, and while there are some great cops thre is also boat loads of shitty ones. and while there are boat loads of ignorant criminols there are a few smart ones. so yeah i DO think i could actualy get away with the perfect crime if i chose to, based on simple laws of probibility.
we like too think that our cops, by virtue of them being 'good guys' have some kind of natural advantage over criminols because they are 'bad guys' but i can assure you this isnt true. putting on a badge doesnt come with a promise from God that you will be any smarter/more lucky/wiser than those who break the laws. you might have more advantages in general, but you NEED them to even stay in shouting distance from criminols that need no advantages in the first place. crime is often simple and with a bit of common sense CANT be solved for various reasons. most criminols are cought because they keep repeating their crimes and give a pattern to work with, or they are stupid enough to brag about having gotten away with it it after words. i concider that just natures way of weeding out the idiots in the gene pool. and thats another aspect too all this. bad criminols WILL be cought and weeded out, bad cops most often arent and can spend their entire lives on the job, wasting time, space, and resources that could be put to better use. that means that while bad criminols get cought be average cops, that the really GOOD criminols are often facing those same average cops and its no real contest. bad guys win.
bottom line "if crime didnt pay than there would be no criminols"
Well, if it is a 'perfect crime', then I would of course have gotten away with it. Hence the perfect part.
But what if my question was merely asked to distract you from my own plots?MaxTheReaper said:
You never can tell, and now you'll never know if I've got anything hidden up my sleeves.
yes I do think I could get away with the perfect crime... if I got caught, then it wouldn't be very perfect now, would it?pimppeter2 said:
You sure know a lot about stealing for someone who doesn't advocate the act.ihategravity said:
Just because I wanted to know how being pretty had anything to do with world domination??MaxTheReaper said:
That's not very charitable; now you've made me sad.
The only people who have gotten away with one that couldn't be traced are twins (on three occasions that I'm aware). Assuming everyone's DNA (not just felons) was on file, any non-twin would be caught. With twins, though, it's impossible to get 100% accuracy, as long as nothing stupid was done. Even if one's a previous offender, I doubt most juries would convict one based on that.pimppeter2 said: