You’ve probably heard the phrase ‘a friend will help you move, a real friend will help you move a body’. Funny, but sometimes true. I recently heard of an aquaintance who is now doing time for just that, as an accessory.
I think friendship has to be a two-way street, and a real friend wouldn’t ask you to.
What do you think?
Friendship has boundries - so, NO, I would not.
I also wouldn’t sleep with someone just because a friend asked, or rob a bank. You get the drift…
Depends. Did the friend beat his girlfriend to death because she was leaving him, and now wants help hiding her body? Then, I’d say “just a mo”, walk straight to the police, and that friend would become a former friend at light speed. But sure, there are situations where I’d do it.
Yes. I’d probably do a better job of it. My help would be much appreciated.
A “friend”. No… unless I was criminally inclined helping him move a body is potentially legally tantamount to ‘helping’ him knock over a liquor store. It’d be insane to even dip your toe in that kind of craziness. Someone with a body to hide is going to get get moved out of the “friend” category pretty quickly.
What you have to do is cultivate friends in suburbs that are newly annexed by the neighboring city. When the city water line goes in the old septic tank is available:D
My intial response was, no way in hell, but then I began to ponder circumstances.
A classic example might be Nazi Germany and the victim, a german soldier, about to report some hidden Jews. More contemporarily, how about a female friend who has been violently raped. The rapist gets aquitted and somtime later she has the opportunity for revenge. No one knows about it but her, and now you. It can’t be spun as self defense. Assuming it’s unlikely she will be a suspect, do you help her?
I’m sure I could imagine other extenuating circumstances, but maybe a flat “No” is not going to be so easy.
Former NY Mets star, Bud Harrelson’s son was just involed in the exact question asked by the OP.
http://www.nydailynews.com/front/v-echo/story/455325p-383152c.html
As I was reading your post I kept hearing this odd “CHUNG-CHUNG” sounds.
Doesn’t it depend on what kind of body? 
I just have to know what they are, because I cannot imagine where I would do such a thing.
I’m guessing that’s the cell doors closing? :eek:
No. I like to think that none of my close friends or family would kill someone unless it was justifiable, in self-defense, or accidental. So I’d urge them to trust the system and report it.
On the other hand, if someone really close to me killed someone in such a way that no one would believe them, I might be tempted to help.
Like my best friend, when she was going through her divorce. She could have accidentally dropped a heavy skillet on her ex’s head. Or maybe an axe. Or a piano. Their divorce was so ugly, she might have had a hard time convincing anyone that it was an accident, and I would have helped her.
Gotcha’. :smack:
Isn’t that technically the doink-doink?
Given that (I certainly hope that) none of my friends or family are homicidal, I’d have to say no.
Now, if it was a particularly hot friend, and he asked me for help in ‘moving’ his own body… 
There’re are very few friends that fit into this category for me, but I think maybe I would.
Considering they aren’t dumb or criminally inclined friends to begin with, there’d already be extenuating circumstances that would make all the logical steps not viable. So I’m thinking by the time they figure out that for whatever reasons, they can’t turn the situation over to the proper authorities, and they bring me in and I realize they’re right and hiding the body is the only option, yes I would help.
I suppose it’s like donating a kidney or being a surrogate parent or something, no it’s not high on my list of things to do on my summer vacation, but if one of my closest friends needed me that way, and there just weren’t any better ideas, I’d help.
Sure, and he’d do the same for me - I know this without even asking. Neither of us are inclined to need a body hidden without a damn good reason, so if he found himself with an inconvenient corpse, I’d help first and ask questions later.
He’d better have a hell of a story to tell.
For two friends, I would. For all the rest - they can rot in jail!