# If you were arrested for a high-profile crime, what about you would the media have a field day with? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 22, 2012, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-were-arrested-for-a-high-profile-crime-what-about-you-would-the-media-have-a-field-day-with/629050 "2012-07-22T16:32:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 7
**Author:** ![Broomstick](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/broomstick/32/246_2.png) [@Broomstick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Broomstick)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2012, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-were-arrested-for-a-high-profile-crime-what-about-you-would-the-media-have-a-field-day-with/629050/121 "2012-07-27T03:33:56Z")
True, but this time I held off until my _second_ post in this thread. For a pilot that’s modest. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2012, 6:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-were-arrested-for-a-high-profile-crime-what-about-you-would-the-media-have-a-field-day-with/629050/122 "2012-07-27T06:27:29Z")
> [@MeanOldLady](#): > > Some of this stuff here is pretty lame. Yes, I could see the media clowns throwing a circus over a mass killer having a history of mental health issues, or owning many guns, being a Sunday School teacher, or being a vet, but nobody gives two shits if you LARP or play video games. Like hell they don’t. Most of the information on “the katana murderer”, who killed his little sister and their parents in 2000, still says it was “in imitation of Final Fantasy”. Dude has been diagnosed with paranoid schizofrenia combined with depression (poor kid didn’t get hit by more mental illnesses cos he didn’t have room for them), but if you read the information that’s floating around, it was all FF’s fault. Yes, he liked FF VIII. No, it wasn’t FF’s fault! As for “like every other guy in the planet”. I’ve met a couple of hundreds of people who thought they did not play videogames under the following premise: videogames are played by freaks I am not a freak therefore, what I play on my cellphone, FB, etc. are not videogames That includes several reporters. ---
**Author:** ![Namkcalb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/c89c15/32.png) [@Namkcalb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Namkcalb)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2012, 6:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-were-arrested-for-a-high-profile-crime-what-about-you-would-the-media-have-a-field-day-with/629050/123 "2012-07-27T06:32:43Z")
> [@DWMarch](#): > > I have much porn. Some of it is categorized and organized in what is obviously serial killer fashion. Let me guess, you have two folders. [ul] [li]Little black leather skirt.[/li][li]Other[/li][/ul] 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![DWMarch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dwmarch/32/1010_2.png) [@DWMarch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DWMarch)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2012, 6:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-were-arrested-for-a-high-profile-crime-what-about-you-would-the-media-have-a-field-day-with/629050/124 "2012-07-27T06:40:03Z")
> [@Namkcalb](#): > > Let me guess, you have two folders. > [ul] > [li]Little black leather skirt.[/li][li]Other[/li][/ul] > 🙂 No, I said serial killer style! Leather Type: file folder Location: D: Size 302 GB \*\*Contains: 132,010 files, 2,102 folders \*\* I’d list them all but… (Edit: when I say serial killer style don’t take it too literally. The safest any woman can possibly be in my presence is if she’s got such a skirt on!) ---
**Author:** ![Cicero](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cicero/32/3594_2.png) [@Cicero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cicero)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2012, 8:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-were-arrested-for-a-high-profile-crime-what-about-you-would-the-media-have-a-field-day-with/629050/125 "2012-07-27T08:02:00Z")
Probably that I grow big juicy _mushrooms_ if you know what I mean… ---
**Author:** ![belladonna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/9fc29f/32.png) [@belladonna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/belladonna)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2012, 11:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-were-arrested-for-a-high-profile-crime-what-about-you-would-the-media-have-a-field-day-with/629050/126 "2012-07-27T11:22:51Z")
> [@Justin\_Bailey](#): > > The ALA is very serious about privacy. You don’t have a library book history, no one does. I don’t doubt you about ALA policy, but I know I can look at my lending history going back at least a couple of years if I access my library account online. So there is some history recorded; whether or not it could be seized by government officials is something I know nothing about. As for me, they wouldn’t need to dredge up anything nebulous. Those aren’t skeletons in my closet, they’re still-warm carcasses. ---
**Author:** ![akira5822](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/53a042/32.png) [@akira5822](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/akira5822)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2012, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-were-arrested-for-a-high-profile-crime-what-about-you-would-the-media-have-a-field-day-with/629050/127 "2012-08-01T18:07:19Z")
Goverment employee ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2012, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-were-arrested-for-a-high-profile-crime-what-about-you-would-the-media-have-a-field-day-with/629050/128 "2012-08-01T18:12:14Z")
> [@akira5822](#): > > Goverment employee I can tell from the minimal information in your post that you are a _secretive_ government employee. ---
**Author:** ![smithsb](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smithsb/32/12107_2.png) [@smithsb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smithsb)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2012, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-were-arrested-for-a-high-profile-crime-what-about-you-would-the-media-have-a-field-day-with/629050/129 "2012-08-01T21:29:52Z")
Thirty-two years working with ammunition and explosives yet I own no guns, ammunition, or explosives 😕 All my blood relatives are dead. After the last passed, I sold my bulldozer.:eek: Middle name is “Wayne”.😉 Am on a Walmart security tape wearing a pajama top over paisley shorts with mismatched flip-flops.😃 ---
**Author:** ![campp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@campp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/campp)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2012, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-were-arrested-for-a-high-profile-crime-what-about-you-would-the-media-have-a-field-day-with/629050/130 "2012-08-01T21:33:38Z")
“He took lots and lots of pictures… Of Things. Rusty things, old things, weird things, amazing things. Why did he do that?” ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2012, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-were-arrested-for-a-high-profile-crime-what-about-you-would-the-media-have-a-field-day-with/629050/131 "2012-08-02T00:10:50Z")
For me, it’d probably be the fact that I own neither a car nor a television. Which either means that I’m an out-of-touch Luddite, or that I just find biking convenient and waste enough time already on my computer. Though they might also mention my swords (actually, only one sword, plus three nonfunctional sword-shaped-objects, but d’you really expect the media to get that right?). But I think that that’s probably more common than the lack of car and TV. ---
**Author:** ![Broomstick](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/broomstick/32/246_2.png) [@Broomstick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Broomstick)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2012, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-were-arrested-for-a-high-profile-crime-what-about-you-would-the-media-have-a-field-day-with/629050/132 "2012-08-02T01:05:17Z")
Do you think they’d find my crossbow suspicious? ---
**Author:** ![coffeecat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/coffeecat/32/3405_2.png) [@coffeecat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/coffeecat)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2012, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-were-arrested-for-a-high-profile-crime-what-about-you-would-the-media-have-a-field-day-with/629050/133 "2012-08-02T17:26:39Z")
I’m too embarrassed to say.:eek: ---
**Author:** ![furryman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/furryman/32/99_2.png) [@furryman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/furryman)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2012, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-were-arrested-for-a-high-profile-crime-what-about-you-would-the-media-have-a-field-day-with/629050/134 "2012-08-02T17:57:52Z")
I’m a “furry”, man. ---
**Author:** ![DennisMM](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dennismm/32/17003_2.png) [@DennisMM](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DennisMM)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2012, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-were-arrested-for-a-high-profile-crime-what-about-you-would-the-media-have-a-field-day-with/629050/135 "2012-08-03T03:29:10Z")
Government employee who went on disability at one point Long history of mental illness, specifically mood disorders Prone to outbursts (before proper medication) Sketchy employment history before joining the gov’t Reads comic books, often violence-filled comic books, at 50 Owns a TV and pays for cable, but doesn’t watch it (extra weird) Sexually and romantically compulsive behavior. House looks like a landfill ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2012, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-were-arrested-for-a-high-profile-crime-what-about-you-would-the-media-have-a-field-day-with/629050/136 "2012-08-03T03:42:53Z")
Sort of similar: How would you like to be remembered like this lady who just died: [Woman who smuggled monkey in 2007 dies after rollover](Woman who smuggled monkey in 2007 dies after rollover)? Having tried to smuggle a small monkey into the US from Thailand five years ago by hiding it under your blouse and pretending to be pregnant. ---
**Author:** ![Taomist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/53a042/32.png) [@Taomist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Taomist)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2012, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-were-arrested-for-a-high-profile-crime-what-about-you-would-the-media-have-a-field-day-with/629050/137 "2012-08-03T03:46:18Z")
> [@MeanOldLady](#): > > I agree that the media will, if nothing interesting comes up, cling onto whatever they can find out of need to create a compelling narrative, but video game playing isn’t a compelling narrative. The killer’s gaming would have to be so excessive that it consumes the him, elsewise he’s just every other guy on the planet. well, I’m a GIRL playing on the interwebs; that’s unusual right? AND…omg, AAAAND, she plays STAR WARS!! AAAAAAAAAND she plays EMPIRE! And OMG half her toons are male. Clearly she has issues. Plus, she plays LIGHTSIDE SITH. Clearly a problem with authority. ---
**Author:** ![Taomist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/53a042/32.png) [@Taomist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Taomist)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2012, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-were-arrested-for-a-high-profile-crime-what-about-you-would-the-media-have-a-field-day-with/629050/138 "2012-08-03T03:47:19Z")
> [@Siam\_Sam](#): > > Sort of similar: How would you like to be remembered like this lady who just died: [Woman who smuggled monkey in 2007 dies after rollover](Woman who smuggled monkey in 2007 dies after rollover)? Having tried to smuggle a small monkey into the US from Thailand five years ago by hiding it under your blouse and pretending to be pregnant. My guess is that if she hadn’t smuggled monkeys, nobody on the net would care that she died at all. (Does anyone, anyway? How slow WAS that news day that this was news? 😕 ) ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2012, 8:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-were-arrested-for-a-high-profile-crime-what-about-you-would-the-media-have-a-field-day-with/629050/139 "2012-08-03T08:46:52Z")
That I worked in porn. Yeah, that’d be enough to doom me in the Public’s eyes, even if all I was accused of was parking infringements. ---
**Author:** ![Diceman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/22d042/32.png) [@Diceman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diceman)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2012, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-were-arrested-for-a-high-profile-crime-what-about-you-would-the-media-have-a-field-day-with/629050/140 "2012-08-03T15:16:42Z")
I’ve seen a psychiatrist for anxiety and depression. I have a couple of books that could make me look like an anarchist/militia-type (specifically, _How to Start Your Own Country_ and _Uninhabited Ocean Islands._ I’m also a fairly introverted person. So basically, the media would make me look like a right-wing extremist, and would probably assume (without any justification whatsoever) that I was a racist redneck. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-were-arrested-for-a-high-profile-crime-what-about-you-would-the-media-have-a-field-day-with/629050.md?page=6) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-were-arrested-for-a-high-profile-crime-what-about-you-would-the-media-have-a-field-day-with/629050.md?page=8)