I feel terrible
A couple of weeks ago someone was murdered and CCTV from the bus shows my bus virtually outside the house. I was there for 15 minutes having a cigarette and I remember some guys hanging around. But I'm trying to remember it and I can't, I have a memory like a sieve :(
( Boris Johnson's Press Secretary, Mon 1 Jun 2009, 18:29, archived)

You did it though, right?

( Pickle Fairy is clumsily dancing away this fear, Mon 1 Jun 2009, 18:29, archived)

Just try and forget it then.
Problem solved.
(rnuk http://flickr.com/rnuk, Mon 1 Jun 2009, 18:29, archived)

I have to go and give a statement though

( Boris Johnson's Press Secretary, Mon 1 Jun 2009, 18:32, archived)

don't tell them you just can't remember
they'll water-board you, best to make something up
( well, Mon 1 Jun 2009, 18:34, archived)

Is your mouth still blue?

( rosie posie tingly bongly, Mon 1 Jun 2009, 18:34, archived)

You saucy thing.
Not anymore. I had various meaty snacks for dinner a bit ago.
(rnuk http://flickr.com/rnuk, Mon 1 Jun 2009, 18:34, archived)

I'm not going to be able to eat dinner for AGES AND AGES
because we've got to go to sainsbury's before tea and they'd shut oxford circus so him indoors won't be in for so long. HUNGRY. And the olives aren't helping.

When are you going on your holidays?
( rosie posie tingly bongly, Mon 1 Jun 2009, 18:37, archived)

Bosnia on the 17th, India on the 10th July
EXCITING TIMES.
(rnuk http://flickr.com/rnuk, Mon 1 Jun 2009, 18:37, archived)

Rnuk -
Life coach, lover, man.
( Willwillwritehiswill An arse like a slapped face., Mon 1 Jun 2009, 19:12, archived)

You forgot gynacologist.

(rnuk http://flickr.com/rnuk, Mon 1 Jun 2009, 19:17, archived)

under-plumber

( Grrrmachine the indifference engine, Mon 1 Jun 2009, 19:20, archived)

What brand of cigarrette were you smoking?

(King Baby Duck more than a ceiling, Mon 1 Jun 2009, 18:30, archived)

so basically, you're responsible for a murder?

( well, Mon 1 Jun 2009, 18:30, archived)

FUUUUUUUUUCK!
DON'T GO TO THE POLICE, they're corrupt.
An FBI agent will somehow find you anyway, convince you to testify, then you'll have to fly somewhere but there will be MOTHERFUCKING SNAKES ON THE MOTHERFUCKING PLANE.
( CowJam, Mon 1 Jun 2009, 18:32, archived)

Oh I watched that last night. What a load of wanky.

( TonyUNDERSCORE from the Internet, Mon 1 Jun 2009, 19:01, archived)

I enjoyed it in the cinema
so watched it last night. My housemate was all "so this is funny right? When's the funny bit? Did I miss it?" and I was like "it's more fun than funny. The baldy fella throws the dog to a snake, then hegts et by the same snake. And SLJ sez "get these motherfucking snakes off this motherfucking plane" and a chap gets bit on the winky and a girl gets bit on her boob and stuff and stuff."
( CowJam, Mon 1 Jun 2009, 19:24, archived)

and then I was like "turn it over if you want"
and she was all like "no, you chose this. We'll watch it" and I wished I'd put terminator 3 on instead, but that's shit too.
( CowJam, Mon 1 Jun 2009, 19:25, archived)

MUCH LIKE THE VICTIM!

as long as they were stabbed repeastedly in the head. If not imagine this post was about dogs wearing trousers
( glued eel /questions/questionsyoudliketoask/post1648081, Mon 1 Jun 2009, 18:33, archived)

Why do you feel terrible?
What the fuck were you supposed to have done?
( Esme Weatherwax I swear on my tash it's daycent hash, Mon 1 Jun 2009, 18:34, archived)

Get rid of the witnesses
DUH!
( CowJam, Mon 1 Jun 2009, 18:36, archived)

I wish I'd have took a photo of them on my phone

( Boris Johnson's Press Secretary, Mon 1 Jun 2009, 18:38, archived)

I'm not convinced
that taking photos of murderers is a particularly sensible idea.
( CowJam, Mon 1 Jun 2009, 18:42, archived)

Do you normally take pictures
of random people when you see them hanging around?
( Dobsky, Mon 1 Jun 2009, 18:44, archived)

also
your mobile phone probably wouldn't have taken a much clearer picture than your bus's CCTV, not in the dark
( CowJam, Mon 1 Jun 2009, 18:45, archived)

it wasn't dark
it was still pretty light even at 9.50pm. I may be on a crimewatch reconstruction coming to your screens soon...
( Boris Johnson's Press Secretary, Mon 1 Jun 2009, 18:48, archived)

Oh.
It's not your fault y'know, don't blame yourself. You can't take photos of every miscreant, you'll get yourself duffed up.
( CowJam, Mon 1 Jun 2009, 18:49, archived)

That's because it is summer and it doesn't get dark for aaaaages
It rocks. Now, you should stop worrying as there is fuck all you could have done.
( Pickle Fairy is clumsily dancing away this fear, Mon 1 Jun 2009, 18:50, archived)

Yeah, but you can't have known they were murderers, for fuck's sake.
Get over it.
( Esme Weatherwax I swear on my tash it's daycent hash, Mon 1 Jun 2009, 18:46, archived)

Then how would you explain having photos of them?

( Pickle Fairy is clumsily dancing away this fear, Mon 1 Jun 2009, 18:46, archived)

There's nothing illegal in taking photos of people.

(rnuk http://flickr.com/rnuk, Mon 1 Jun 2009, 18:59, archived)

I think there has to be some sort of warning posted
for it to count as evidence in a court, though.
( Moon Girl Technologies horrendous beanbag, Mon 1 Jun 2009, 19:03, archived)

Do you normally go around taking photos of strangers looking suspicious?
You couldn't have known. Stop beating yourself up about it.
( The Gentleman Bastard waxing lyrical. ©, Mon 1 Jun 2009, 19:08, archived)

Knowing that if you weren't a retard, people who are dangerous to all the public are on the streets
when there is a chance for them to be locked away.

I don't think that makes sense actually
(King Baby Duck more than a ceiling, Mon 1 Jun 2009, 18:39, archived)

No, it doesn't.

( Esme Weatherwax I swear on my tash it's daycent hash, Mon 1 Jun 2009, 19:04, archived)

how about taking the journey again, same time of day, taking a notebook with you and seeing if you can remember anything as you go along, and when you get to the same bit on the journey again. You might do. If it really does bother you that you can't remember more, it might be worth it, then you won't have a hangover of :-( -ness about it all, and you'll know you did what you could to help
/serious suggestion
( vladimir, Mon 1 Jun 2009, 18:38, archived)

Oh hang on a minute,
suggestionFAIL, you drive them, don't you.
( vladimir, Mon 1 Jun 2009, 18:40, archived)

Fuck sake, just ignore me.
I'm a thick cunt.
( Maffers I flow kinda strange like Spina Bifida footprints, Mon 1 Jun 2009, 18:45, archived)

we've all done this for a while now maffers

( Lightguy hail satan, Mon 1 Jun 2009, 18:48, archived)

*some kind of bland, middle of the road, comment*

( Maffers I flow kinda strange like Spina Bifida footprints, Mon 1 Jun 2009, 18:49, archived)

good banter, no offence, ace

( Lightguy hail satan, Mon 1 Jun 2009, 19:13, archived)

all about the MURDERBUS!
single to ETERNAL GUILT! please

one pound fifty

thanks
( moohalaa, Mon 1 Jun 2009, 18:54, archived)

be fair,
how often to people hanging around bus stops warrant special attention.
( willenium Fist bump for verification, Mon 1 Jun 2009, 18:55, archived)

not very often
if you drive to the places I do
( Boris Johnson's Press Secretary, Mon 1 Jun 2009, 19:01, archived)

they might be,
you know, waiting for a bus, or something.
( Moon Girl Technologies horrendous beanbag, Mon 1 Jun 2009, 19:02, archived)

You've got no reason to feel guilty,
nobody remembers every apparently inconsequential detail of their lives, just in case it might turn out to be important later. The only guilty folks are the ones who did it.
( Moon Girl Technologies horrendous beanbag, Mon 1 Jun 2009, 19:01, archived)

My housemates are going to see Mitch Benn and I have to stay in and revise.
RUBBISH.
( LimeyTreat Bitch. Lover. Child. Mother. Sinner. Saint., Mon 1 Jun 2009, 19:09, archived)