- For simplicity, let’s assuming this is your country, in some random rural area
- The dead person has a kitchen knife plunged into their chest, blood is still fresh
- The dead person is a random stanger, you’ve never met them, they are just a random average (non-famous) person
- There is no one else in the house
- You have a tiny bit of blood on your clothes, but not a lot, you are unsure of whose blood it is
- You have no injuries
- You were never drugged or anything, you just happen to mysteriously, spontaneously get teleported there, while sleeping. You went to sleep on your bed and just woke up only to find yourself in this scenario. (Bloodtests will show nothing)
- You wake up right in the morning, at sunrise
- There is electricity and running water, small amounts of food in the refrigerator, enough for maybe a day
- You don’t have any items with you, not your phone, nothing beside the clothes you slept with (if any). There are clothing in this house belonging to the dead person
- There only electronics devices (besides appliances) in the house is the dead person’s smartphone, in their pockets (no lockscreen codes or anything), and a laptop (no password). This house has wifi.
- This house does not have any security cameras.
- There is a car in the driveway, belonging to the dead person. No other vehicles, no bikes or anything like that.
- Nobody (yet) knows this person is dead. They live alone.
So, would you think that you did the murder, and just turn yourself in; or assume someone set you up and try to escape? How would you escape this scenario and avoid prison?
Remember, this is a rural area, not that many cameras.
So do you make a run for it? How?
Or do you just call the authorities and hope you don’t get charged with the murder? Very awkward interrogation tho, nobody would believe you. I doubt “I don’t remember how I got there” is a strong defence.
What is your “game plan”?
My first thought is that someone else brought the two of us here to kill us. They already got this stranger, and they’re coming back to kill me too.
So, I’d quietly gather some survival supplies and sneak out of the house. Once I hide far enough away from the house, I’d get a phone and call the police.
It doesn’t even cross my mind that I could be the killer until someone accuses me of it. I’ve never met that person, so why would I even lay a finger on them? I’ll just tell people what I know as accurately as I can. No, I don’t know how I got there, honest!
This is the correct answer. I wouldn’t assume I’m the murderer, I’d assume I’m the second victim.
I would check in any case whether the person is really dead.
I would look around for other people.
Next I would try to find out where I am.
Then probably call the police with the person’s phone.No, I would never assume that I have done a murder.
And yes, our police works differently than the one in Hollywood movies.
I am playing GTA V and have just swapped players to Trevor and I will continue playing as such
“why does this keep happening to me ?”
Oh no, not again.
First thing you do? Unzip.
TIL peak stiffness during rigor mortis occurs around the 12-24 hour mark, fyi.
That sounds like the beginnings of a modern adaptation of the game Zork
>West
you move west and arrive at a door.>Open door
you open the door and peer inside. It is pitch black inside>West
you step into the darkness. If you remain here, you are likely to be eaten by a grue.You
Are likely
To
Be eaten by a grueIf this predicament seems particularly cruel
Just think of who’s fault it could be
Without a torch or a match in your inventory
Immediately close all the windows, lock the doors, and check the body for maggots. Checking the body for maggots will clearly indicate about how long they have been deceased. With the windows and doors blocking out view from the outside, you can then use this information to make the critical decision of whether to have intercourse with the corpse or not.
Hmm yes. Only issue with is there would have to be flys buzzing around to lay eggs into the corpse. If there are no flys them you’re in the clear.
critical decision of whether to have intercourse with the corpse or not
We need Lemmy Gold for this 🤣
make the critical decision of whether to have intercourse with the corpse or not.
I guess we all have our priorities.
Feels so wiggly.
Throwaway account: “…asking for a friend.”
xD
It is difficult to write exactly what a person would do in such a case, most people can write one thing, but if this really happened to them, it is highly likely that they would act differently. I don’t see the point of trying to run away or hide the crime, neither morally nor logically, the only good idea is to call the police, in any case, even if you try to hide the murder, murder is a murder, you know, a crime, and secondly, it may come up in the future and you will have bigger problems.
Yup, my presence is going to leave some kind of evidence so might as well call it in but don’t say anything about why you are there to the cops and just lawyer up.
I was with you with this thought experiment until the teleportation part and knowing that you weren’t drugged. In this situation, you couldn’t possibly know that at the time and that really changes things from a bizarre but realistic scenario to one involving aliens or some such.
You also couldnt know no one knows the person is dead… or that they live alone. And unless you killed them, then someone knows they are dead.
Delete their browser history
I’m not going to prison, and the police are unlikely to believe me. So I would dispose of the body best I could, scrub my shit down, and start going south until I hit Mexico.
That requires you to be in Usa first… 😉
Well the first bullet point explicitly says “a random rural area in your country” so yeah
Do I remember my whereabouts for say yesterday or my regular life, or am I just brainwashed and woken up next to a corpse? Two very different scenarios
You remember your entire life, and the last thing you remember is going to sleep at home, then the next thing you know is you wake up to a dead body next to you.
I would never think I committed the murder, especially since there isn’t a lot of blood on me and I don’t know anyone.
I’ve experienced false dream awakenings from nightmares worse than this scenario so one thing I would think is that I’m probably still asleep; I’ll run away.
I’ve also experienced extreme denial once in my life, it feels like you forget quickly whatever traumatic trigger just happened (but then you remember it, triggers you again, you forget it again, repeat). That’ another possible way my brain could react under those circumstances, I can’t predict myself. I’ll still run away.
Now, if I somehow avoided both scenarios then I would probably still run away, hoping to find someone who can help. If I’m walking for days without reaching any towns/people then I’ll probably be considering to just move on and not look back; wait for the police to find me first. But I wouldn’t try to escape. If they find me I’ll be honest.
I’d probably remove the knife and plunge it into my own chest. This all feels like way too much work to deal with.
You gotta wash it first, you don’t want an infection
I doubt that you would have had the courage to do that.
I’d think I’d better start setting up my S.P.E.C.I.A.L. stats and collecting bottle caps.
Find a way to call the authorities. I don’t trust my brain at the best of times, and for all I know, I’m the murderer despite no recollection. Because of no recollection. That’d be a sign of some kind of mental problem, right? And if I’m otherwise fine and not responsible, there’s still a whacking great gap in my memory (for how I came to be there) and there’s a murderer on the loose.
I’d also try not to contaminate the scene any more than I had to.
Knowing my luck, the police would pin it on me anyway, but since, as I said, I don’t trust my brain, as far as I know, they might well be right and it might be the best thing for everyone if I am put away somewhere.
