That seems pretty common with people inexperienced at lying to authorities. Cops let's say. People try to pre-emptively come up with explanations for things the

That seems pretty common with people inexperienced at lying to authorities. Cops let's say. People try to pre-emptively come up with explanations for things they think the cop is going to wonder and ask about. Which of course does nothing but reveal to the cop what issues are preoccupying the mind of the liar. Also for whatever reason those stories always run to the extravagant and complicated, rather than simpler & more plausible explanations. (Or the obviously best policy of just S'ing TF U.) If I had to speculate why that is, I'd say it's probably that whoever decides they need to intervene to shape the narrative, already has an overinflated sense of how valuable and beneficial their story (and their talking in general) is to the outcome. Once you've decided the thing that will set things right and save you, is your gums, flapping, then why not go whole-hog? Obviously more of a good thing is better! (They think.)