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Do you have an alibi for 10pm last night?

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SneakyGremlins · 18/05/2019 14:04

I'm watching Midsomer Murders and they're looking hard at a suspect who has no alibi for 10pm the night before.

Thing is... Surely not having an alibi isn't suspicious? I live on my own so a lot of the time my alibi is my cat.. Would you have an alibi, or how would you prove "I was at home"?

I think I watch too much crime drama

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ginghamtablecloths · 18/05/2019 14:44

I'm the same sneaky and I'm not sure the cat would vouch for me even in an emergency.

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SneakyGremlins · 18/05/2019 14:45

@BreakfastAtSquiffanys

It'd be me sat there sweating knowing I probably had a ready meal and five episodes of friends before falling asleep on the sofa

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TSSDNCOP · 18/05/2019 14:46

Yes, it’s absolutely cast iron. I was seen do something by about 80 people.

ChipSandwich · 18/05/2019 14:48

I was watching telly with a fried who was staying over. She could give me an alibi and I could give her an alibi. So we probably both did it.

Aggregate · 18/05/2019 14:48

I was shattered last night and went to bed very early. I was fast asleep by 10. DH was in the pub, but ds (4) came into bed next to me at about 9 so could potentially be an alibi, although I doubt he’d be considered a very good one!
I did take a pic of ds asleep in our bed and text it to DH just after 9. However I guess that could look suspicious in its self - as if I was attempting to get evidence of alibi in place before I went out and murdered...

notacooldad · 18/05/2019 14:49

Yes , I was on the M6 coming back from the Lake Didtrict with 3 teenagers and another member of staff with me!
Probably motorway cameras would pick my car reg up, phone would place me there and staff and kids would verify. Receipts from Tebay services would place me there at around 9.30 pm.
I think I'm covered!

justasking111 · 18/05/2019 14:49

yep was on whats app with an old friend for two hours, so timed posts.

Witchend · 18/05/2019 14:51

I was helping chaperone around 100children aged 8-18 along with about 7or 8 other chaperones and around another half dozen or so other adults.
I've a pretty cast iron alibi there.

MaMisled · 18/05/2019 14:51

I was at work, plenty of people to verify that.

It wasn't me officer!

TheFairyCaravan · 18/05/2019 14:52

@QueenofLouisiana we're very lucky because the hedgehog has decided to make our hedgehog house its home. We've got a wildlife camera in the garden and have worked out when it gets up at night and comes back to bed. I love it.

happymummy12345 · 18/05/2019 14:54

My husband works long hours and when he is on an evening or an all day shift he doesn't get home until 11-11.30 on a good day, sometimes more like midnight.
I'm usually home with ds who is 3 and a half and the cat.
Usually at 10pm I'm watching telly on my own when dh is at work. So no one could help me out..

TheHeathenOfSuburbia · 18/05/2019 14:55

Exactly, Squiffanys, I always wonder how the hell people remember their movements like that!
I'd have to check my phone and netflix history just to answer the alibi for last night let alone Murder-Date-Three-Weeks-Ago

AudTheDeepMinded · 18/05/2019 14:58

Yes, I was at a trendy gin bar with 6 other like-minded people (over-excited Mums out on the razz). I walked home with two of them and was tucked up in bed with DH by 11pm. I'm in the clear! (I don't usually have much of a social life so am thrilled to report my whereabouts).

PolkadotsAndMoonbeams · 18/05/2019 15:00

Only that my overspilling-the-basket ironing pile is all done and away...

Actually wouldn't that be awful? Knowing that you could have met friends and give out and had fun and had an alibi, but instead stayed in to get the ironing done and are now being viewed suspiciously?!

freshasthebrightbluesky · 18/05/2019 15:02

I had been out earlier on in the evening and taken some photos - there'll be a time stamp in the exif data and the subject of those photos makes it clear where I was. I was also there with several other people.

I came home around 9pm and dh was in. Then I went to Tesco so will be on CCTV at the store and my card details will match it.

Dh went to bed at around half 10 and I stayed up editing the earlier photos and posting them online. The time stamps will be on the photos and on the post I created.

Nothing foolproof or totally cast iron but neither do I have nothing.

JuniLoolaPalooza · 18/05/2019 15:02

Lol sneaky, I was like, I know your alibi!
10pm every night I'm scrolling on my phone at home. No opportunity to commit any crime here.

Kelsoooo · 18/05/2019 15:03

Yes, I am never alone so always have an alibi. Kinda.

Last night at 10 p.m I was eating chicken kebab meat and chips watching Modern Family with my DH and our Au Pair.

However, right now, husband and kids are out, I'm sat at my PC procastinating from finishing my end of module assessment for uni. The AP is in, but she's upstairs with her headphones on watching Netflix (I think) so she can't verify I've gone out. Don't think she realises DH and kids are out actually....

L1nkedOut · 18/05/2019 15:05

I could say ''no, I don't have an alibi'' but in reality nowadays your google maps timeline could prove that you were sitting on your bed nearly! And netflix could show what you had streamed!

Herland · 18/05/2019 15:07

But surely digital fingerprints only prove that someone was online, messaging, watching Netflix.

I had a friend who was accused of a crime. They were able to see that his bank card had been used at the same time as the crime Miles away from where crime was alleged to have happened BUT they still needed security footage from the department store to show that it was them using the card and not someone else.

I agree that I would expect them to prove that I committed a crime rather than me prove I hadn't.

User40000000 · 18/05/2019 15:10

I was out at a bar so guesssing cctv from there could prove where I was.

Irulez · 18/05/2019 15:11

Ye, but if you leave your phone at home and stick on a long netflix movie before you go on your killing spree, it's not really a solid alibi is it?

AnnaMagnani · 18/05/2019 15:12

On Columbo, it's always the person with the alibi who did it. Doesn't Inspector Barnaby know anything?

Columbo episodes devote the first 20 minutes to showing you in detail how the murderer has set up his/her alibi and then Columbo sticks like glue to the one person with an alibi for some mysterious reason we only find out in the last 5 minutes. But presumably because only a murderer would have botherer to come up with one. Everyone else would have been 'Um, I don't know, maybe I was at home, was Dallas on?'

Icantreachthepretzels · 18/05/2019 15:12

I was helping chaperone around 100children aged 8-18 along with about 7or 8 other chaperones and around another half dozen or so other adults.

I'm not convinced on this one Witchend, a crowd that size? Easy to slip away without anyone noticing and then arrive back after the fact.

Oh dear - I just checked my internet history - as the only alibi I could possibly have. At 21: 55 I opened up a google document ... and then nothing until 22:26 when I came back onto mumsnet. The document doesn't even have a title! It's just recorded as 'google document' - how suspicious is that? After 22:26 I'm all over the place, internet wise ... but for that crucial half an hour - it sort of looks like I wasn't really at my computer. It wasn't me, but I'm still definitely in the frame!

LadyRannaldini · 18/05/2019 15:12

It's better to have no alibi and to be a suspect, those with the best alibi are usually the guilty person. I always know that the one who only got back from Africa, other places are available, the day after the murder is the murderer. Must stop watching Miss Marple.

TarragonSauce · 18/05/2019 15:13

I thought I was untraceable for a minute there - I was the wake-night at work, all the residents were asleep before I started my shift so didn't see me until this morning. The sleep-night went into their room whilst gogglebox was on so before 2200. There is no mobile signal at work so my phone would have been 'location unavailable'.
But then I remembered there's a camera above the entrance gate. Mind you, the lens is covered in cobwebs so although you can see a dark car arriving (and not leaving) you can't see the model or reg plate.

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