Is someone telling me the truth?

[DNA]

Greetings :sun:


I absolutely value the work Bill and Kerry have done in capturing folks on camera/video while those folks are sharing a testimonial and or story. There is a lot of value in seeing someone as they tell a story. Especially a long convoluted story with many twists and turns. The value for myself is in reading the person and deciding for myself if I see a genuine person telling a story or if I see deception.
I'd like to share a personal story.
While in college I had this amazing professor teaching a management class. He was one of those guys who would receive the attention of everyone in the class. He was always dropping these insightful stories and pearls of wisdom. During one of his classes he explained how important it was to be honest with folks. He stated "if you are in a position of management and you lie to folks, trust me, they are going to read it on you. Maybe not the first time and maybe not the second time, but eventually they will see through the incongruency of your words, actions and body language and they will note that these are not matching the message coming out of your mouth. They might not even consciously put it together but we human beings are powerful at processing these things, and folks will look down on you for not being honest.


I believe in this whole heartedly, and yet I've never consciously sat down and attempted to educate myself in dishonesty detection. I whole heartedly believe in intuition and trusting your unconscious opinion, but there is nothing wrong with educating your conscious mind as well.


I think it could be a worthwhile venture.
Also it may add more tools to our toolbox in so far as being able to decipher truth from fiction when learning from whistle blowers and close encounter of the 4th kind types.


I have a small request. I would hope folks would absorb whatever information they are about to post, and give a brief overview of what is being said. I would much rather folks post a three minute video they have actually watched so as they can describe the information being given.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OSN14CkAcf4
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This video discusses voice cues that can give away if someone is telling you the truth or not. In this video it states watch out for folks who clear their throat a lot. Folks who clear their throat are having difficulty with the very small muscles in the vocal cords. Lying causes stress and this stress can have a detrimental effect on the vocal cords Dr. Glass also states that folks suffering from this stress may also have a problem projecting their voice and it may trail off and sound feeble and or like a hoarsy whisper.

[Shannon]

Just like the alt community, the lie detection community has their own stars, con men, and perpetual ego trippers, with clear bias and law enforcement ties. I follow certain professionals and take what I need and what I know works. Dont believe a lot of stuff out there especially in body language, it's proven false. I'll find some sources for you and links.

I also follow crime sites to analyze and practice on all the parties involved including LE. I look for the dropping of pronouns and other protocols for statement analysis. The scan technique is very interesting, and is worth looking into. Mark mcclish is one guy who you have to kinda find what's proven and reliable. Same with Peter Hyatt and even pat brown. She's good at calling out some statements that were proven false in some very important criminal cases.
I will find a good example for you :)

[Cidersomerset]

Only one problem how does it work on the forum....

" You just can't get the Staff ".......


" Shannon , I said pause, not Paws " !!

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" Well done DNA ..... Can you tell if he is lying " ?


" He's ready to spill the beans Boss "

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Next episode same time next week..........

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[Justplain]

The recent thread on Hillary Clinton spitting something into a glass of water during a Cleveland rally, shows in the video the telltale signs of a liar, as described above, as she has trouble speaking, clearing her throat and coughing continuously.

Funny, perhaps the American public has determined that Clinton is a bigger liar than Trump, and thats why Trump is leading in some of the more recent polls.

[Cidersomerset]

shows in the video the telltale signs of a liar

That ones a bit to easy , Hillary only has to open her mouth and there's a
lot of vids to choose from...


Ben Shapiro: Hillary Clinton Lies... A Lot

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Published on 11 Mar 2015
Hillary Clinton says that she is the most transparent woman in American politics.
There's just one problem - Hillary Clinton lies... a lot. Ben Shapiro takes a trip in
the way back machine to look at a few of the more egregious examples.


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I also follow crime sites to analyze


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No I don't , but I did watch a lot of American cop shows in the 70's.....

[TargeT]

thats why Trump is leading in some of the more recent polls.

He's also not clearly guilty of crimes others have gone to jail for recently.... I mean that's a pretty big detractor in my mind.

[DNA]

Just like the alt community, the lie detection community has their own stars, con men, and perpetual ego trippers, with clear bias and law enforcement ties. I follow certain professionals and take what I need and what I know works. Dont believe a lot of stuff out there especially in body language, it's proven false. I'll find some sources for you and links.


I didn't even know there was such a thing as a "lie detection community".
Honestly Shannon, I've never really looked into any of this other than say NLP type practices back in the day.
So anything you have to say on the matter would be welcome and educational as far as I'm concerned.
Again, I've always been an intuitive lie detector I've never looked into the practice in so far as being academic and or scientific.
I just thought this might help folks who didn't feel confident in their own intuitive lie detector.


So many folks state their frustration over various whistleblowers and or contactees being proven false. I personally feel I've never been taken in.
Bottom line, my investment emotionally is contingent with how much film I have on them and how they pass the gut feeling check after having watched multiple hours of them. For instance with Simon Parks, I've never stated I thought the guy was lying about his childhood and abductions. But there were a few things he let slip which informed me of his character. Also contrary to popular belief Simon is not a sociopath, he is a bad person who knows the difference. It was Simon's not being a sociopath that allowed me to get a read on his character. If Simon had been a sociopath, I would not have been able to have gotten as good of a read on him. Sociopaths are tough to read, as such as a whole I error on the side of not trusting what they say as a result.
Some of the folks we are familiar with around here of whom I would refer to as sociopaths would be


1. George Green
2. Charles
3. Bob Dean
4. Ashayana Dean


And Leo I'm on the fence about, I think it's his being from another country that makes it a difficult call. And for that matter cultural differences could make seeing lies more difficult.
5. Leo Zugami


Now this is not some all inclusive list. And I'm not saying all of these folks are lying. What I'm saying is that they are sociopaths, and as such it is much more difficult to get a read on them. Sociopaths do not receive the social indoctrination the rest of us receive or rather social indoctrination does not stick with sociopaths the way it does with the rest of us. Sociopaths do not suffer the cares the rest of us do and as such they do not feel stress the way the rest of us do.
Because of this, sociopaths are very difficult to get a read on when they are lying. Knowing this, I error on the side of simply not trusting what they say.
Conversly I'm not saying all sociopaths are bad. Unlike some folks with beliefs that sociopaths are all bad, I believe they simply are not weighed down with social dictates that amount to psychological locks. Sociopaths are free to do more good and more bad than the rest of us. But that is simply my belief.



I also follow crime sites to analyze and practice on all the parties involved including LE. I look for the dropping of pronouns and other protocols for statement analysis. The scan technique is very interesting, and is worth looking into. Mark mcclish is one guy who you have to kinda find what's proven and reliable. Same with Peter Hyatt and even pat brown. She's good at calling out some statements that were proven false in some very important criminal cases.
I will find a good example for you :)


I would absolutely love some examples here. Thank you

[Shannon]

Hey dna, sorry for the time it took to reply... Yeah there's kind of a lie detection community. Lol I've mentioned I am very similar to you in being able to read someone and see their intentions or their pain. I'm not a psychic or an empath... I'm just empathetic. That's what drew me into following the scan technique, the creator of Scientific Content Analysis (SCAN), Avinoam Sapir, has a few protégés and teachers who present his techniques very well. The big Problem is their bias. They are either right wing nutters who interject their own feelings into the analysis or they are just plain bad at it.

*even though I strongly disagree with Peter hyatts political stance I have to give the guy credit for his time teaching and training others for nothing. Take what you can and toss out his bias. I've been training in SA for almost 10 years. It does help.

Here's a link to Peter hyatts blog. It's covering the missing child case of kyron horman an adorable boy from Oregon. His step mother was the last to see him and has withheld important information, lied and failed polygraphs. She also put a hit out on her husband (kyrons father)...

http://statement-analysis.blogspot.com/2016/03/101-profiling-author-terri-horman.html?m=1

More cases he covers
Haleigh Cummings
Kayleigh Anthony
Ayla Reynolds
Haliey Dunn

There's loads of famous criminal cases on that blog that breakdown the crime and the lies from the jump. 911 calls are super important. By listening to just the greeting to the operator, you can Be given the clues to just what the callers intentions are.

Like :
If the caller greets the 911 operator with a hi hello ... And not immediately asking for help for the victim heres a red flag. It's all explained and I can get you some more info about red flagging certain dropped pronouns and improper introductions.

Here's another recent missing girl case.

http://statement-analysis.blogspot.com/?m=0

There's a woman eyesforlies.com. Renee allory... She is an amazing human lie detector. But I believe she recently gave up publicly stating her thoughts on major crime stories.

http://www.eyesforlies.com/blog/

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Some of the folks we are familiar with around here of whom I would refer to as sociopaths would be

1. George Green
2. Charles
3. Bob Dean
4. Ashayana Dean

And Leo I'm on the fence about, I think it's his being from another country that makes it a difficult call. And for that matter cultural differences could make seeing lies more difficult.
5. Leo Zugami

Now this is not some all inclusive list. And I'm not saying all of these folks are lying. What I'm saying is that they are sociopaths, and as such it is much more difficult to get a read on them. Sociopaths do not receive the social indoctrination the rest of us receive or rather social indoctrination does not stick with sociopaths the way it does with the rest of us. Sociopaths do not suffer the cares the rest of us do and as such they do not feel stress the way the rest of us do.
Because of this, sociopaths are very difficult to get a read on when they are lying. Knowing this, I error on the side of simply not trusting what they say......


I totally agree with both your points and your list so far and think it's a next level of awakening the questioning community is sorely in need of realizing. To me, this and other forums are getting way too un-discerning and defensive of their beliefs in 'whoever' while ignoring contrary facts exactly like let's say the 'pro-vaccine' people that they feel superior to for vehemently defending strong beliefs while refusing to consider contrary facts.

With regards to your observations and list, the lingering question I always have is are they being planted/manipulated to be another player muddying the information field or on their own.

Thank you very much for your willingness to ruffle alternative community feathers in the name of truth. We need this more and more.

[TargeT]

To me, this and other forums are getting way too un-discerning and defensive of their beliefs in 'whoever' while ignoring contrary facts exactly like let's say the 'pro-vaccine' people that they feel superior to for vehemently defending strong beliefs while refusing to consider contrary facts.


Couldn't agree more


I don't know of a single "whistle blower" in the alt community that I feel comfortable listening to... seems like most of it is just a bunch of fancy attention seekers that lead their followers on crazy wild goose chases that never end at hard evidence or provable anything.


It seems that personal research on topics (sans confirmation bias) is very lacking, that and critical thinking.

[Carmody]

If one really wants to know what reality is, what is and what is not, they need some of this sort of thing.

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After which the issues of knowing what is possible and what is not..changes....dramatically. That is, if one gets the ride of it correct.

No dipping your toes, it does not work that way. Full bore, hardcore, all in, no reserve, no exceptions, no road to retreat, no second chance, no way out. The mind cannot weasel like it is programmed to do when all weasel room is, in reality, taken away. In the film, she thought she was going to die, so she had a real NDE. Force induced.

As for being taken in on any of this stuff, I will wear the clothes, walk the walk, but I will not own the material as truth -- nor lies. The are no absolutes when the human mind is in a box, a box composed of a much greater reality.

If all you have is about 1% of the true nature of reality in mind and fingertips then you don't know if you are alive or dead, or even what the idea of thought or these things called words --- mean.

We can say, 'well, we can make a few assumptions', but that's about it.

Facts? facts don't exist in cutting edge physics.... and this sort of exploration (as the main subjects of this forum) is similar to forms of cutting edge physics, in that facts don't exist. Facts exist only for fools, the illiterate, and the fearful.

This is all surface crap, foisted on the self by the avatar I/O data recognition system for this idea of reality, nothing more.

[bogeyman]

perceptions of truth, what is true and what is not true. Truth may not be singular but multitude not a single truth but many truths, like many artists painting the same picture each will have a different image, yet all are true.

[DNA]

Hey dna, sorry for the time it took to reply... Yeah there's kind of a lie detection community. Lol I've mentioned I am very similar to you in being able to read someone and see their intentions or their pain. I'm not an psychic or an empath... I'm just empathetic. That's what drew me into following the scan technique, the creator of Scientific Content Analysis (SCAN), Avinoam Sapir, has a few protégés and teachers who present his techniques very well. The big Problem is their bias. They are either right wing nutters who interject their own feelings into the analysis or they are just plain bad at it.

*even though I strongly disagree with Peter hyatts political stance I have to give the guy credit for his time teaching and training others for nothing. Take what you can and toss out his bias. I've been training in SA for almost 10 years. It does help.


Is there an emotive for a stretch and a yawn. Oh man, I just woke up. :sleep: :coffee: :ranger:
My four year old kicked my butt out of bed after two hours sleep. I'm working over night and my wife just went to the farmers market selling her creams and ointments. Why am I saying all of this.




Here's a link to Peter hyatts blog. It's covering the missing child case of kyron horman an adorable boy from Oregon. His step mother was the last to see him and has withheld important information, lied and failed polygraphs. She also put a hit out on her husband (kyrons father)...

http://statement-analysis.blogspot.com/2016/03/101-profiling-author-terri-horman.html?m=1

More cases he covers
Haleigh Cummings
Kayleigh Anthony
Ayla Reynolds
Haliey Dunn

Dang girl. I'm all aboard for looking into stories about flying saucers and bigfoot sightings, but missing child cases? This is something that is just so heart breaking. As a rule I never read about this kind of thing.
Same thing with the true crimes channel and the serial killer reinactments. I just don't dig the stuff.
I'll jump in here and give it a try for you homegirl, but I make no promises in so far as all of this is concerned I get psychic indigestion from this stuff, and some times I get haunted by these types of things. Literally.
While reading the David Paulides books, I often wept in private for these poor people. Especially the children. It got so bad at times I found that I would have to stop and occasionally pray for the victims and ask for the help of guardian angels to guide their souls to where they needed to be.
There would be times I would be reading about someone from the Paulide's collection of disappearance stories and I would feel a presence in the room with me.
I knew on some level it was either the person who went missing in the story or someone very affected by the disappearance. I would stop and pray for the presence, but there were times I felt nothing but anger from the presence, and that it didn't want any help.
I pushed through the Paulides material because I felt there were dots to connect and this might be the only way to connect them.
Bottom line, I think folks who have passed on can hear it when folks are focused on them, especially if their real names are used in the recanting of their story.



There's loads of famous criminal cases on that blog that breakdown the crime and the lies from the jump. 911 calls are super important. By listening to just the greeting to the operator, you can Be given the clues to just what the callers intentions are.

Like :
If the caller greets the 911 operator with a hi hello ... And not immediately asking for help for the victim heres a red flag. It's all explained and I can get you some more info about red flagging certain dropped pronouns and improper introductions.

Here's another recent missing girl case.

http://statement-analysis.blogspot.com/?m=0

There's a woman eyesforlies.com. Renee allory... She is an amazing human lie detector. But I believe she recently gave up publicly stating her thoughts on major crime stories.

http://www.eyesforlies.com/blog/

I'll jump in here and see what I can do.
If crimes and folks accused of the crimes are good places to start, I would be fine with lets say robberies or white collar crimes and such.
But I would personally like to stay away from murders, rapes, kidnappings and the like.
I'm certainly not trying to tell anyone else what to do or what to focus on, this is just a personal preference for myself.

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perceptions of truth, what is true and what is not true. Truth may not be singular but multitude not a single truth but many truths, like many artists painting the same picture each will have a different image, yet all are true.


Let's just say I'm talking about intent then.
What is the intent of the individual giving me information. Is their intent to genuinely share information that they have, or are they lying?

[Shannon]

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I'll jump in here and see what I can do.
If crimes and folks accused of the crimes are good places to start, I would be fine with lets say robberies or white collar crimes and such.
But I would personally like to stay away from murders, rapes, kidnappings and the like.
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I totally understand how you feel.... it's truly heartbreaking and I takes an emotional toll on even the most hardened hearts. I will find you some easier to digest examples where statement analysis was used and proven reliable.

You do have a gift even if it feels like a curse...

I tend to believe we all do. It's just a matter of understanding how and when and then being able to use it thru all the blocks that have suppressed it.

[DNA]

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This post was stating my opposition to Carmody's post above, but I'm removing it.
Live and let live.

[shaberon]

DNA, your professor's statement contains one of the worst "lie clues" a person could use: he said "trust me".

Despite that, it's a pretty accurate idea, and well worth building up a toolbox of physiological characteristics of deception, etc. I think it will help land you in the 80-90% accuracy range.

It will never be complete, versus something like "how to fool a polygraph", and maybe some differences with foreign cultures. Also, a truth teller may be stressed from a hundred other factors; and also, if the techniques are too heavily relied on, then no one will ever believe me if I clear my throat a few times.

I have way too much experience in a particular form of hell where deception was the rule of the day. Living in that situation honed my perception so acutely, I believe I was hardly ever wrong. I had to cut through piles of lies both cheap and grand, and could do it successfully in cases where most other people were paved by it. And yet, from a management position, sometimes I was forced to lie to people--and I don't think they had any clue, based on how easy it was for me to mess up their lives in fairly serious ways.

Mostly--I have been accused of things I never did, and disbelieved when I told the truth--maybe due to stress factors, or those peoples' prejudices, or other symptoms that fall in the category of things you can study.

I can't explain it, and probably can't provide any tips that would be of use to anyone else, but these experiences occupy a large number of years and must be in the multiple thousands. I probably was actually fooled a handful of times, but no one uncovered my tricks that I know of. However, most of them were not particularly skilled, or "worthy adversaries".

It's kind of like combat training--you can make a bunch of preparations, but really there is no training outside of the real experience.

[DNA]

DNA, your professor's statement contains one of the worst "lie clues" a person could use: he said "trust me".


I didn't know "trust me" was a tell per se.


Despite that, it's a pretty accurate idea, and well worth building up a toolbox of physiological characteristics of deception, etc. I think it will help land you in the 80-90% accuracy range.
It will never be complete, versus something like "how to fool a polygraph", and maybe some differences with foreign cultures. Also, a truth teller may be stressed from a hundred other factors; and also, if the techniques are too heavily relied on, then no one will ever believe me if I clear my throat a few times.
I had never heard the throat clearing thing before.
But I also didn't see any reason to doubt it.
For me personally, I find the best read for if someone is lying, many times is the strain in the voice box. And many times the give away is that the voice becomes high or falsetto. As a matter of fact, now that I'm saying it, maybe falsetto was named so because it was noticed to have occurred when folks where using it and not telling the truth. I do not know that, just thinking out loud.
People watch for this, especially in high stakes poker. As a matter of fact, it might be worth visiting the most obvious poker tells.




I have way too much experience in a particular form of hell where deception was the rule of the day. Living in that situation honed my perception so acutely, I believe I was hardly ever wrong. I had to cut through piles of lies both cheap and grand, and could do it successfully in cases where most other people were paved by it. And yet, from a management position, sometimes I was forced to lie to people--and I don't think they had any clue, based on how easy it was for me to mess up their lives in fairly serious ways.
It is a shame that in most vocations one is forced to not only lie, but to accept obvious lies and liars and not confront them on it.
It is funny how lying is probably more prevailent now than it has every been, especially in the modern culture of the US.
Being confrontational is so frowned upon, that folks who lie have a golden ticket so to speak in terms of lying when ever they want to.
They can even be fairly bad at it, it doesn't matter, in this day and age, especially in so far as modern day human resource rules go, you are considered a liability for confronting liars rather than just letting them have their way.


Mostly--I have been accused of things I never did, and disbelieved when I told the truth--maybe due to stress factors, or those peoples' prejudices, or other symptoms that fall in the category of things you can study.

I can't explain it, and probably can't provide any tips that would be of use to anyone else, but these experiences occupy a large number of years and must be in the multiple thousands. I probably was actually fooled a handful of times, but no one uncovered my tricks that I know of. However, most of them were not particularly skilled, or "worthy adversaries".
It's kind of like combat training--you can make a bunch of preparations, but really there is no training outside of the real experience.



It's harder to detect a non-contectual lie where there is no real agenda other than lying for the moment.
Work place relationships make it easy to lie because of the lack of context. The thing is, the working relationship is usually a shallow one, and you usually do not know the person in terms of their family, history and or true likes.
I had a friend who's mother perpetrated that she was a doctorate in her field. She did this for decades while pulling in a six figure salary.
By the time she had been caught and fired at her work place, in 99', she had obtained so much experience in the field that she didn't need to lie anymore in order to get similar positions.

[shaberon]

Yes, I think a strained, slightly high pitched and/or speedy voice is a warning sign. I have a perfect example. Well, two somewhat different ones while I'm at it. These events took place about twelve years ago, and were roughly contemporaneous.

First, there was one guy who I basically met over the phone. What he had to say was ordinary, social, and showed some intelligence. But, something about it, just the tone...somewhat along those lines...I found deeply disturbing; or perhaps I could say, I knew something was wrong. At the moment, he was telling the truth though.

A little further down the road, this guy becomes my direct boss. The place we're working finally decided to enter the 20th century, with some remodelling, internet connected pc's, and surveillance cameras. The pc's came with a few basic rules, such as: no porn.

So eventually he took a few days off, and when he came back, he suspended me. He wrote me up over a few concrete complaints; I don't quite remember them all, but it seemed like horse slop. For one, I didn't make any bank deposit; well, the company owner himself had told me that if you don't really need cash, there's no reason to run out for the deposit. So that was kinda bogus. Also, I didn't put some merchandise on the shelf. Due to the remodelling, the shelf wasn't actually there. We would rather pay some outside company so many thousands of dollars to do this stuff, instead of letting the people who are already there do some simple things like assemble shelves. But apparently that was my fault.

So I messaged the owner with my refutations of the write up; if I was really guilty of something, I would admit it, but the handful of items were all dismissable. In the process, I said why not suspend him, and described what this guy was like on a daily basis: you would be talking about anything, and he would routinely throw in rude comments like "yo mama's mouth". Then, he would go "look at this bubba!" and show you a gorefest from BangedUp, or some porn that's beyond porn, involving aerobatic feces and the like. Obviously none of this was allowed, and it wasn't a one time thing, it was every day, forever.

Nothing happened.

But eventually he was fired for fraud, which, if anybody would listen to me, you could have seen it coming. Not long after that, he wound up getting arrested for involvement with a child porn ring, and, after posting bail, went out in the backyard, put a gun in his mouth and blew his brains out.

All I know is I could somehow sense all this from that very first two minute phone conversation.

There was another one that I didn't really see coming. One of the girls I worked with was Mexican by way of Los Angeles. Gringo or hispanic, I've usually hit it off rather well with folks from L. A., I thought we were pretty good friends and I had a much better time with her than I did with suicide guy. Shortly after his demise, I was called into the office by new boss, who had to discuss with me the fact that she had said, last night I squeezed her butt--conveniently enough, in one of those areas the camera couldn't see.

With no way to *disprove* it, usually the girl's story would win, and I could have gotten in a lot of trouble, possibly even be charged with a crime. Which would have been fine if I had done it. She made it up and I have no idea why.

The fact was completely opposite. In that she grabbed my butt, every day, in front of her husband, while making a song and dance about it. Not once, but more times than I could even guess. No spooky off camera location, just right there in front of everybody. No one cared. I didn't care. Yet as soon as that one false comment was made, suddenly we have to pay a third person more overtime so there's a witness and I literally have to watch my every step. Killed the atmosphere. But in general she was an honest person, I have no idea why she said that garbage and it was a complete surprise to me.

In Morocco, the "vol de confiance", a theft by someone who puts time into being your friend, is punished much more harshly than the regular harsh punishment to a "random" thief.

Oh, yeah: the kid from down the street who broke into my house. He came over and practically confessed to it the next day. "I heard there was a break-in"...."Who do you think did it?"...but he was a transparent idiot. The sheriff told me they can't really prosecute if the person has been in your house before; even in a case where someone cuts themself on a broken window and leaves bloody prints everywhere, it's useless if you allowed them in before.

I think there are "skill levels" to this stuff. You beat the lesser challengers almost every time, but when you encounter a true professional, chances are you'll never know.

"Trust me" is one of those weird things where it's kinda like...oh, so nothing you said until now is believable, and now I should start trusting you? Although it can be an ordinary figure of speech.