Pure conjecture... <is this where I say "snipped by me? that's what I'm doing, but manually, 'cause I don't know how this works~ FreeRoad>
I also do find his statements strange such as saying this happened in his house or home. The woods is not his house.
BBM. Sure it is. It's his property, it is his home. Plenty of people, myself included, talk this way. Nothing strange at all.
So earlier, I was going to say exactly this, and CrimeDawg123 beat me to it.
I've lived on a half acre, and lived on 120 acres, and I've always said "my house" when referring to any/all of the property. For example, when purchasing 100 red pines at the Conservation District tree sale, I'd say "I'm planting these at my house," and when I see a grey fox in the woods at the back of my Mother's 80 acres, I tell my friends "I saw a grey fox at my Mom's house." It wasn't in the livingroom, it was 1/4 mile back from the road, and I consider that "at her house."
I just bring this up because, as I learn how things work here @WS, I'm observing how/when we all take words
literally. While words can indeed be telling, I think it's even more true that the "hugely" vast majority of people are
not particularly conscious about the words they are selecting to utter. One or two threads back, I asked if we knew whose truck was towed away from RL's property, and after asking my question a couple of different ways, there was a kind answer from another Poster, that included a MSM video link. The r
eporter had said that RL's truck was towed. But the reporter was possibly speaking on the fly, from the scene, and I personally do not take that reporter's statement literally. I don't know that the reporter actually ran the plate and found the registration for the vehicle, or saw the vehicle title.
So I'm writing all of this to say that, as a new Sleuther, I'm sorting out how far I'm willing to go in making assumptions, and what I'm willing to base my deductions and conjectures on. Not to sound too cynical, but I just don't have confidence that taking even professionals' (LE, reporters) words too literally, is a sure bet.
And I'm really asking for opinions and advice from you experienced gumshoes out there. Where do you draw your own lines?
Sorry for the long post, and Thank You to anyone who's read this far. It's Sunday morning, not any new info that I can find, and I thought I'd take this opportunity to talk about sleuthing as opposed to over-sleuthing already shredded scraps of information. :coffeews: