# Suppose somebody murdered you right now,... **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [September 15, 2003, 1:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suppose-somebody-murdered-you-right-now/201713 "2003-09-15T13:33:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2003, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suppose-somebody-murdered-you-right-now/201713/21 "2003-09-15T17:48:29Z")
Given the fact that my work 'puter is in a photo dark room, & the utter indifference of many of my cow-orkers (no typo), it is a very real possibility that I could sit here for at least 24 hours before I was found. Up to 4 hours at home, tops. ---
**Author:** ![Fretful\_Porpentine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fretful_porpentine/32/2873_2.png) [@Fretful\_Porpentine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fretful_Porpentine)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2003, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suppose-somebody-murdered-you-right-now/201713/22 "2003-09-15T17:49:46Z")
Right here, in the middle of a crowded computer lab, immediately. At home, probably not until I didn’t turn up to teach my classes, which could be anywhere from zero to three days. ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2003, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suppose-somebody-murdered-you-right-now/201713/23 "2003-09-15T17:55:14Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Shirley Ujest \* > \*\*When I was working, along with three other co-workers in an open room plan, I can tell you this, it would not matter how I died, they would not report it until they scavenged my desk for the only working stapler, phone, pens that wrote and my horde of post it notes. > > I mean, I would do the same thing if it were them. After I finished dancing.\*\* BWA Hahaha ha > [@](#): > > \*\* > > He’d still ask me for sex, though. 😃 \*\* Would he get it? ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2003, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suppose-somebody-murdered-you-right-now/201713/24 "2003-09-15T18:12:55Z")
Would he get it? Let’s just say he wouldn’t be the only one who was stiff. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Isabelle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b5a626/32.png) [@Isabelle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Isabelle)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2003, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suppose-somebody-murdered-you-right-now/201713/25 "2003-09-15T18:13:57Z")
I’d be noticed missing in 5 minutes. I can’t go to the bathroom around here without someone wanting to know where I am. I work with a bunch of men (babies) ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2003, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suppose-somebody-murdered-you-right-now/201713/26 "2003-09-15T18:18:17Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Zebra \* > \*\*Would he get it? \*\* Over her cold, dead body! ---
**Author:** ![RotorHead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/85e7bf/32.png) [@RotorHead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RotorHead)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2003, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suppose-somebody-murdered-you-right-now/201713/27 "2003-09-15T18:49:30Z")
For me, it would likely be at least a week. My cellphone would ring, but since I don’t really know anybody within 100 miles of here, nobody would be checking the house for a while. If I didn’t already have plans to be travelling in the coming weeks, then it would easliy turn into a month. Scary. ---
**Author:** ![mhendo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mhendo/32/3159_2.png) [@mhendo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mhendo)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2003, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suppose-somebody-murdered-you-right-now/201713/28 "2003-09-15T18:51:36Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by mhendo \* > **Today, about three hours before my girlfriend is coming over to get something. Although, if she forgot to bring her own key she might just assume i was out and leave.** Well, as it turns out, she decided not to come round, and just emailed me instead. So my corpse would still be slumped over the desk, with blood pooling the keyboard. ---
**Author:** ![Q.N.Jones](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/3da27b/32.png) [@Q.N.Jones](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.N.Jones)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2003, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suppose-somebody-murdered-you-right-now/201713/29 "2003-09-15T19:55:13Z")
Right now, I’m in my office with the door closed, so it might be tonight, when the cleaning guy comes around. If I were at home at the moment, it would be practically immediate, because my sister’s living with me temporarily. But on a normal day at home, sans sister, it could be a week or two before my co-workers got concerned enough to come looking. I like to imagine they’d find my sad kittens curled up next to my body, but in reality, they’d probably be eating my lips off or something. ---
**Author:** ![monica](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a183cd/32.png) [@monica](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/monica)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2003, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suppose-somebody-murdered-you-right-now/201713/30 "2003-09-15T20:08:01Z")
About 5-10 minutes- my brother, mother, and dog are in the next room. Less, if I die from non-natural causes because the dog would hear the murderer. ---
**Author:** ![sultana\_of\_slash](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bbe5ce/32.png) [@sultana\_of\_slash](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sultana_of_slash)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2003, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suppose-somebody-murdered-you-right-now/201713/31 "2003-09-15T20:48:35Z")
I wouldn’t be noticed here at my desk until tomorrow morning. But then, I’d still have showed up for work. ---
**Author:** ![beegirl13](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/848f3c/32.png) [@beegirl13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beegirl13)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2003, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suppose-somebody-murdered-you-right-now/201713/32 "2003-09-15T21:08:48Z")
Probably in a couple hours when my roommate comes back from dinner. Less if she wonders why I’m not down there and calls the room and gets no answer. ---
**Author:** ![parlo\_americano](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/b19c9b/32.png) [@parlo\_americano](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/parlo_americano)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2003, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suppose-somebody-murdered-you-right-now/201713/33 "2003-09-15T21:15:31Z")
At work tomorrow morning because I’m usually the last to leave. At home, maybe 3 days because my boyfriend’s out of town til then. If I got killed outside the house and work then I would be assumed to have just picked up and left and no one would would ever find out I was murdered. ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2003, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suppose-somebody-murdered-you-right-now/201713/34 "2003-09-15T23:50:45Z")
Most of the time, I could not go 20 minutes as a stiff without being discovered. I’m rarely at home without Mrs. RickJay, and at work people need my help all the time. ---
**Author:** ![Stage\_Manager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stage_manager/32/7267_2.png) [@Stage\_Manager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stage_Manager)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2003, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suppose-somebody-murdered-you-right-now/201713/35 "2003-09-16T00:02:44Z")
I am at work. Alone. We don’t open until Wednesday. So. I would congeal for about 36 hours before I was found. Very depressing. ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2003, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suppose-somebody-murdered-you-right-now/201713/36 "2003-09-16T00:14:39Z")
On the plus side of me suddenly dropping dead, the intelligence level would possibly go up in my posts. ---
**Author:** ![Rabid\_Squirrel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e0b2c6/32.png) [@Rabid\_Squirrel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rabid_Squirrel)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2003, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suppose-somebody-murdered-you-right-now/201713/37 "2003-09-16T00:42:29Z")
Another Doper in a crowded computer lab. Lets see: - 15 seconds for the knife weilding pyscho to enter the room and make their intentions clear. - 45 seconds of gallent struggle - or me running around shoving men, women and children out of the way and screaming like a little girl. - 0 seconds of me lying down with a serious bout of death. So, about a minute all up. ---
**Author:** ![cherry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/da6949/32.png) [@cherry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cherry)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2003, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suppose-somebody-murdered-you-right-now/201713/38 "2003-09-16T01:44:41Z")
at work it would be immediately at home it would be under 15 minutes ---
**Author:** ![Kat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b19c9b/32.png) [@Kat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kat)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2003, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suppose-somebody-murdered-you-right-now/201713/39 "2003-09-16T01:48:57Z")
About 10 minutes. That’s when my roomie will be coming out of his room again to complain that he’s hungry. ---
**Author:** ![Fern\_Forest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/71c47a/32.png) [@Fern\_Forest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fern_Forest)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2003, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suppose-somebody-murdered-you-right-now/201713/40 "2003-09-16T01:54:07Z")
Hmm, I suppose it depends how I fall. My grandmother can’t get into my bedroom so I might lay here until tomorrow when my sister visits. If not for her I might have to wait until the weekend. My cat might start in on me by then. If I fell in the living room or kitchen then it would be at least several hours, maybe even a dozen. My grandmother doesn’t leave the bedroom very often. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suppose-somebody-murdered-you-right-now/201713.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suppose-somebody-murdered-you-right-now/201713.md?page=3)