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Night Of The Androids

The police officers still seem a bit off to me. When he asked "did you see anything unusual tonight" - why would he ask that? Almost like he knows there was something unusual (the car and occupants) and is fishing to see if they saw it or not... you know? Then when he finds out they did see it, he gives them a convenient explanation.
 
Schrodinger's Zebra said:
The police officers still seem a bit off to me. When he asked "did you see anything unusual tonight" - why would he ask that? Almost like he knows there was something unusual (the car and occupants) and is fishing to see if they saw it or not... you know? Then when he finds out they did see it, he gives them a convenient explanation.
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I wonder if the officer looked a bit off too? Perhaps SkepticalX can say something about the police officer?
 
if there were addition equipment in the vehicle as part of some road testing, at night, on suburban streets, with cops around the corner, of some automated driving unit, could this have been making additional noise, giving the impression of a blowing exhaust system ?

a red ragtop is still a stretch
 
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on reflection if there were some remote control apparatus in use, and i prefer the story without, a drophead car might improve signal reception ?
 
To be perfectly honest, I have no recollection of what the police officer looked like other than that he was Caucasian and maybe in his thirties. His voice was calm throughout our conversation. The only thing that might have been a little odd was that he didn't seem like he was in any hurry to resume his search for the thieves.
 
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To be perfectly honest, I have no recollection of what the police officer looked like other than that he was Caucasian and maybe in his thirties. His voice was calm throughout our conversation. The only thing that might have been a little odd was that he didn't seem like he was in any hurry to resume his search for the thieves.
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Ah, thanks for providing that additional info even if you can't remember much about him. Could be slightly odd that he wasn't in a hurry.

To my mind I think he still comes across as giving you a convenient excuse for the car. Just my opinion :)
 
When people are passing in a car we are only treated to a snapshot impression of them - so our minds tend to fill in the rest. (So I would imagine anyway). So the postures and attitudes the passengers happen to be assuming tend to take on overemphasised significance.

With this in mind, I'd go with the bicycle thieves scenario - and their rigid posture (only seen at a glimpse anyway) explained by their desire not to give anything away.

The question: `Have you seen anything unusual?` is a standard cop one (at least in TV shows it is), and not one intended to elicit mysterious stories!

The two witnesses were buzzed by an early ( and I would assume infrequent) dose of yeast derived products. And villains tend to drive loud old bangers (from TV again!). So I don't find anythin g too inexplicable in this superb tale.

I have my own which is vaguely similar. When I was about 11/12 I used to go on early evening bike rides on my own along the roads criss crossing the fields adjoining Southport and leading to Ormskirk.

On one of these evenings -it was early dusk - a man drove past me in a Reliant Robin or some such basic, cheapo type of car. As he passed I noticed - or seemed to notice -that his head was lolling back on the seat behind him - as though he were severely disabled and had a broken neck - and he was looking straight upwards! He also wore dark glasses of some kind.

In my overheated child's mind the man was disabled and the glasses he was wearing featured some type of periscope type arrangement that allowed him to look ahead - despite his head being stuck in a facing-up position - thus allowing him to drive. This struck a chill into my heart as it confirmed that the World is a place of Scary Weirdness (which is what I wanted!)

This attitude now seems like a massive non-sequitir: if such disabled people were enabled to drive by such a contraption...wouldn't that be lovely!

It now seems, in my banality soaked adullthood, however, that in all likelihood I had just seen A.N Ordinary geezer who just happened to be temporarily looking upwards as he passed me.
 
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