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Always wear different shoes when you commit a crime, then dispose of the shoes afterwards. A friend told me that.
by AlbertCory 2y ago
Always wear different shoes when you commit a crime, then dispose of the shoes afterwards. A friend told me that.
- whycome 2y agoAnd make sure they don't fit properly. So that they will acquit. On a related note: Also, change your tires.
- luqtas 2y agowe may also skim down to: don't be the person who commited the crime ^-^
- whaleofatw2022 2y agoWhen I moved and had a set of tires I had no room for, it was surprisingly hard to give them away even to tire shops. I guess this explains some of it lol.
- dylan604 2y agoJust go to a lake and tie them against someone's boat launch, or just throw them in the lake. After all, you've gone this far of committing a crime, what's a little illegal dumping going to bother you?
- olyjohn 2y agoThis reminds me of another human behavior I see when driving. Some guy goes speeding down the freeway, weaving through traffic. Easily a reckless driving ticket, possibly jail time or car impounded. But they won't dare enter the carpool lane, even though it's totally empty. A ticket of $165.
- smitelli 2y agoThey're basically hazardous waste. Even if they have plenty of tread and a possible long life ahead of them, no shop wants the hassle or comeback risk that comes with installing parts that don't have a fresh warranty.
- bitwize 2y agoMy wife knows a used-tire shop in New Orleans. Used to go there when her car had a flat and needed it replaced quick and cheap.
- gosub100 2y agomy first car had a bad tie-rod-end, something wrong with the steering. It would chew through tires unevenly every 4 months or so. but the beauty was (20+ years ago) they were only 13" tires, and getting them rotated was dirt-cheap. So I'd do that and replace them quarterly with used ones for $20 a pop instead of fix the steering problem.
- olyjohn 2y agoProbably still cheaper to fix the steering problem... Tie rod ends are like $15.
- aorloff 2y agoGo to a tire shop in a poor part of town. They will gladly sell you a used tire if you have a blowout.
- eschneider 2y ago"Bought a new set of tires within a week of each serial killing" is a thing that's easily datamine-able. Make it challenging by using different tire vendors each time and limiting your crimes to traditional seasonal tire changeover times. Allegedly.
- thebeardisred 2y agoPlaying devil's advocate, you don't have to buy new tires. Just swap them. A couple hundred bucks at Harbor Freight and you can be setting beads at home.
- krapp 2y agoOr just do what many serial killers do and just kill non-white women and minorities, and the cops won't care enough to put in much of an effort.
- BoorishBears 2y agoWhen I read a headline like this, my mind always goes to parallel construction. I'm not saying forensics can't do some amazing stuff, but it just feels so much more likely that someone was able to correlate a pair cell phones to both locations, pull search histories and know for certain who did it
- kmeisthax 2y agoParallel construction is mainly used in the context of intelligence sharing. The CIA and NSA don't give two flying fucks about the 4th Amendment, but the FBI needs criminal convictions that will stick in US courts, so they at least have to pay lip service to it. Conversely the CIA/NSA really want their methods to remain secret, but the FBI has to disclose their reasoning as part of prosecution. Traditionally, the CIA and FBI didn't talk to each other at all[0], until 9/11 happened and Congress forced them to, so parallel construction is how they avoid stepping on each other's toes. That being said, that's all moot, because the article says the guy self-reported[1]: > The man in the Jeep had reported the first fire that occurred on May 3, claiming to be a wildland firefighter who tried to put it out, authorities said. Investigators said they observed, however, a stark contrast in his reaction to the Salt Fire; he didn't attempt to report or extinguish it, even though he claimed in an interview that it was visible from his house. And to add to the stupidity, his girlfriend voluntarily provided shoeprints to compare: > Less than a mile from where the Salt Fire started, an agent from the Bureau of Indian Affairs' Office of Justice Services conducted a traffic stop of the suspected Jeep, with a man and his girlfriend inside. > The Jeep’s tire tread patterns closely matched those near the fires, authorities said. A shoe print of the woman's Vans also matched the previously found impression, and the woman voluntarily gave her shoes to the FBI, it said. More powerful than forensics or spyware is the fact that criminals suffer from profound stupidity. I mean, the reason why people say "crime doesn't pay" is because, in most cases, it literally doesn't. Crime is not an economically productive activity on net, but even for individuals, they rarely profit from it. The way you actually profit from crime is to make other people do the crime for you, so they get caught, like some kind of MLM pyramid scheme that eventually becomes the new state if left unchecked. [0] Yes, the GTA5 subplot about the IAA breaking into the FIB to extract a man that was already arrested so they can go Jack Bauer on him is only slightly an exaggeration of actual US executive branch politics [1] In Among Us, if you kill someone as the Impostor, you can accidentally click the Report button to report your own kill. This happens more often than you think.
- ceejayoz 2y agoUntil the DA asks you in court why you spend so much on shoes every year.
- burnished 2y agoThere are a bunch of buying strategies or reasonable explanations, I think you'll be fine explaining why you spend money on shoes if its even asked.
- CapitalistCartr 2y agoAlways, ALWAYS, leave answering questions to your attorney.
- newshoes 2y ago"I don't recall."
- mikestew 2y agoI run multiple trail races greater than marathon length every year, along with the training to run those races. I have a whole rack of running shoes in various condition. That also explains why I was out in the woods in the first place.
- gsky 2y agoOr remember you are never gonna get away so better not commit any crime
- complaintdept 2y agoI mean...something like half of homicides go unsolved.
- 1992spacemovie 2y ago[flagged]
- dmoy 2y agoIt depends on where In Seattle, I think the homicide closure rate was about 50% pre pandemic, and got a lot worse since then. But also closure != punishment, because not all homicide prosecutions end up being guilty (it's not like the feds with a 99.X% conviction rate once they bring a case).
- gosub100 2y agoprobably because a lot of the offenders end up being victims. in many situations the problem is self-optimizing.
- JumpCrisscross 2y agoWow, and that's a multi-decade low [1]! [1] https://www.themarshallproject.org/2022/01/12/as-murders-spiked-police-solved-about-half-in-2020 https://www.themarshallproject.org/2022/01/12/as-murders-spi...
- dylan604 2y agoWell, this is just not true. There are plenty of people that have committed crimes and gotten away with it. Some might have been done so well that nobody noticed the crime at all. Some might have done it just slightly less perfectly so that people know the crime happened, but nobody can find the culprit. There's an infamous art gallery heist that comes to mind right off the bat.
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