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Dressed in Black
 
location:
Vernon B.C.
Gender: Male
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< on 11/4/2005 4:08 AM >
|  | | | When the cops come and they freak out and stuff... is it a good idea to play dumb and just be like: "I didn't know"?
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Pleiades
  
location:
Halifax
Gender: Male
| | Re: Playing dumb?
<Reply # 1 on 11/4/2005 4:23 AM >
|  | | | Depends on the circumstances, and how well you can act.
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tick
location:
Abingdon, VA
Gender: Male
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<Reply # 2 on 11/4/2005 4:34 AM >
|  | | | I've fallen back on 'playing dumb' when I can't think of anything better (like, when I run into someone very unexpectedly and I have to quickly explain my presence).
Or, when my gf starts grilling me about where I've been all day.
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Dressed in Black
location:
Vernon B.C.
Gender: Male
| | Re: Playing dumb?
<Reply # 3 on 11/4/2005 4:48 AM >
| | | | So does it work fairly well?
-DiB |
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Axle
  
location:
Milton, ON
Gender: Male
Sieg oder Tod
| | Re: Playing dumb?
<Reply # 4 on 11/4/2005 4:50 AM >
| | | | As Pleiades said, it all depends on the circumstances. Usually playing dumb doesn't work especially if there's a big sign saying "NO trespassing" and they're plastered all over the place. Now, if you got in through a back entrance that didn't have said signs, then yes saying "I didn't know" would work.
Playing dumb does take a lot of skill. I'd usually make up a story first before going on playing dumb. You're an intelligent story, it's easier to make up something than play dumb.
Celer at Audax
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GrayFox
location:
Allston MA
Gender: Male
A Star of CCTV
| | | Re: Playing dumb?
<Reply # 5 on 11/4/2005 5:26 AM >
| | | | if you act dumb, it can backfire on you and you can be in worse trouble then you would have been, such as the No Tresspassing thing axle said...best thing to do is either have a damn good story made up beforehand (ie: i need pics for a school project) or just dont get caught
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Pleiades
location:
Halifax
Gender: Male
| | Re: Playing dumb?
<Reply # 6 on 11/4/2005 12:36 PM >
| | | | Heh, you could always literarily act dumb and pretend you can't speak. But seriously, sometimes truth works better than fiction, if you explain that you just love being immersed in the history of old buildings, you might be better off than coming up with a suspicious story on the fly.
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Syd
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| | Re: Playing dumb?
<Reply # 7 on 11/4/2005 12:54 PM >
| | | | I havent had any run ins with cops in years but playing dumb only seams to piss them off.
Pick up your ethics and go home. |
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Axle
location:
Milton, ON
Gender: Male
Sieg oder Tod
| | Re: Playing dumb?
<Reply # 8 on 11/4/2005 3:05 PM >
| | | | Posted by GrayFox
(ie: i need pics for a school project) or just dont get caught
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School project one, that's my usual explanation. I also use the "I'm a photographer for a real estate company looking at purchasing closed/abandoned buildings.
Celer at Audax
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Turd Furgusen
location:
Charleston, WV
Gender: Male
I think marijuana is just nature's way of saying high!
| | | | Re: Playing dumb?
<Reply # 9 on 11/4/2005 3:32 PM >
| | | | It all depends. The more restricted the area the less likely this excuse will work.
I always liked the "playing gay" excuse! I heard it mentioned here a while back, just saying you were trying to be with your "lover" someplace very private. Of course this could backfire too, like if you were anywhere in the South!
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Everyone has a dark side, mines just a little more illuminated. |
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Logan
location:
Ra-Cha-Cha, NY
Gender: Male
We miss you Jerry
| | | | Re: Playing dumb?
<Reply # 10 on 11/4/2005 5:47 PM >
| | | | If there is a college in the area that has an art program, just tell them you are an art student. It explains everything. Crazy art students.
Cogito Ergo Sum |
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bikepunk
location:
Vancouver
Gender: Female
| | | Re: Playing dumb?
<Reply # 11 on 11/4/2005 10:06 PM >
| | | | Playing dumb might work if there are no signs to the contrary, but you should know that "not knowing" isn't a valid excuse legally, so if they're of a mind to charge you, they're gonna.
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Krenta
location:
Saint Paul, MN
Nope, wasn't me.
| | Re: Playing dumb?
<Reply # 12 on 11/4/2005 10:18 PM >
| | | | Posted by Turd Furgusen
I always liked the "playing gay" excuse! I heard it mentioned here a while back, just saying you were trying to be with your "lover" someplace very private. Of course this could backfire too, like if you were anywhere in the South!
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Never had to use it, but I'd actually planned on a similar excuse once, when exploring something on a college campus with a couple other people during the summer. "There are dorms around here, right?" I asked. "If we're stopped, say we're heading to an S&M party in one of the dorms, but we don't know the address."
"An S&M party!?"
"How else are you going to explain the ropes, flashlights, and respirators?"
"Kinky. I like it."
I suppose one could carry a couple condoms as credibility props... or a special flashlight, depending on your plumbing and preferences...
But please, no tagging buildings with the edible paint. 
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Dare
| | Re: Playing dumb?
<Reply # 13 on 11/5/2005 1:19 PM >
| | | | This one works really good, (although if you have a bunch of equiptment it probably won't) I was exploring this old junk yard when the cops showed up. (It really could have turned out bad for me sence the guy that owned the yard just got busted for cooking meth out there and they thought thats what I was doing out there) I told them my dog jumped out of my car and took off running and that I was just looking for her. I even showed the cop a picture of my dog! I actually felt kinda bad cause these cops stuck around for almost an hour helping me look for my dog!
And of course that excuse worked really good when I came back later. I was able to get a few good pics before the cops came back. Hahaha!
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David E
location:
San Francisco, CA
Gender: Male
Do not believe everything you see on TV.
| | | Re: Playing dumb?
<Reply # 14 on 11/5/2005 2:17 PM >
| | | | Who's playing?
David
FREE THE UER 6! DOWN WITH UER LACKEYS! And to the mod that changed my sig, blow me! |
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metalwitch40
location:
mass.
Gender: Female
| | Re: Playing dumb?
<Reply # 15 on 11/5/2005 8:13 PM >
| | | | What works for me is that I'm just there to take pics.
I've even showed them the pics on the camera.
Have also told them I like the history and the archectecture
of the building.
Works for me.
The more things change, the more they stay the same |
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Labec
location:
Maple Ridge BC
Gender: Male
There was a building here......
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<Reply # 16 on 11/10/2005 4:43 AM >
| | | | I've never been caught yet. But I work for a disposal company and we have an extensive rear lot full of worn out and new garbage dumpsters. One time on the night shift I was working near the metal shop when I heard something in the back lot. I went back there to see if maybe some more hobos had moved in and I saw some younger looker teens (most likely 13-14) and I asked them what they were doing here. They quickly said they had just wandered in here and were on a UE excursion. I bought the story for a second until I saw the can of spray in one of the kids hands as he jammed it into his back pack. They saw me notice the can and ran off... Its kids like that that give UE a bad name when its now being used as an excuse for sheer vandalism
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BeaverBanker
location:
Canunkastan
Gender: Male
A Hobo In A Orange Sweater
| | Re: Playing dumb?
<Reply # 17 on 11/10/2005 10:20 PM >
| | | | My plan is if we ever got caught was, Say that im doing a school project for Canadian History Class on old buildings and im taking pictures.
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KublaKhan
location:
Edinburgh, Scotland
With Satan, it's always gimmie, gimmie.
| | Re: Playing dumb?
<Reply # 18 on 11/11/2005 4:08 AM >
| | | | Bullshitting the cops is one thing. They're paid to listen/deal with a certain amount of bullshit.
Bullshitting your g/f is an amateur mistake that will only get you killed.
"Where were you all day?"
1) "Um...I dunno."
2) "With KublaKhan."
3) "I dunno."
4) "Out."
These are likely the best answers you can come up with on the spot. Your g/f ain't gonna buy any of them. A cop might.
PS...for Christ's sake...don't tell her you were with me. Cuz I told mine that I was with you.
(You got drunk and I had to help you sober up and if that meant drinking your beer...HEY MAN...THAT's WHAT FRIENDS ARE FOR).
...Oh yeah. You owe me a beer.
"The truth is knowable. But probably not, ever, incontrovertible."
--Don DeLillo
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andrew
location:
colorado
Gender: Male
| | Re: Playing dumb?
<Reply # 19 on 11/15/2005 3:39 AM >
| | | | "I thought I heard a baby crying, officer,...help me look for him"
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