For a little while, I was using a Virtual Private Network (VPN) to hide my internet traffic. However, with the internet available to us it was slowing things down a little bit too much.
So, I unsubscribed and went back to using the internet as most people are.
Now, usually when I watch a movie or TV show, I’ll look up some background information on the show. This can range from simply looking up what else the actors have been in, to digging into some of the background information and origins of the story.
Most recently, I’ve been watching How to get away with Murder. Consequently, I’ve searched “how to get away murder” multiple times.
Next, in an unfortunate incident, my wife accidentally got cut, leading us to search “how to get blood out.” If I’m being monitored, I just want to make it very clear I didn’t kill anybody (although that’s exactly what I would say if I did kill someone).
The last search reminded me of when I lived in Los Angeles. I was doing a course and one of the guys in the course said his house had gotten broken into. He said he lived across from the police station but that it took them over an hour to show up when he called. According to my friend, when they did show up they took a quick look around said “yup, looks like someone broke in,” before more or less getting ready to leave again.
He said so what do I do if something like this happens again. They asked him if he owned a gun to which he responded with no, he said.
They told him to get a gun, wait until the hypothetical thief was inside the apartment and shoot him. He would most likely have priors and they wouldn’t give it much second thought.
If he got antsy and pulled the trigger while he was still in the hallway of the apartment building, they told him to drag him inside and clean out the hallway with soda, or something like seven-up if you don’t have soda. Again most likely he’ll have priors and they wouldn’t look at anything too closely, they said according to him.
Now I don’t know how true the story is (although judging by the reactions of the other people in the room at the time it might well have been), but we didn’t have any soda and according to the internet, water should work just fine. It did.