[marktwain]

Shoot, shovel, and shut up may work if you had to shoot a rabid badger. I think it is bad advice if you have to defend yourself against a human attacker.

[Neidermeyer]

Most people get flustered and babble ... I was at a car accident scene yesterday ... the at fault driver was incriminating himself from the moment I walked up and asked him if he was “ok” .

[nixonsnose]

kind of like if you shoot a bad guy outside, drag him
inside.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

But, but the advertizements on FOX make it sound as if Belize is paradise on earth!

They would not lie, now would they?

[Georgia Girl 2]

Well unless you own a few large hogs. :-)

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

Everything is situational. However, note that in the story the farmer confessed. Had he not done so, what evidence would the police have against him?

Many years ago I made a thought problem. If you made coffins that were 6’x2’x2’, 24 cubic feet each, and put a person inside each one; then if you put every single person on Earth in such a coffin, stacked in a cube, how big would the cube be?

A cubic mile contains 147,197,952,000 cubic feet. So divided by 24 cubic feet, your answer is 6,133,248,000, close to the entire population of the Earth in a cube 1 mile high, 1 mile wide, and 1 mile deep.

The entire population of the world in little over 1 cubic mile.

The total land surface area of Earth is about 57,308,738 square miles. So if you dig a hole 1 mile deep and 1 mile wide...

So how easy would it be to find a buried body in all of that?

[CurlyDave]

Remember that everything that you say on a 911 call is recorded and can be used against you in a court of law.

This is a good thing to remember, but when my daughter had to report an auto accident where the other party became belligerent and she drove off for her own safety, I had her write a letter.

That way she has exactly the same information as the police, and can refresh her memory from the letter when they call back.

The favorite trick is to go over the same material many times after you have given a verbal statement. If your story varies, even in the slightest, from last time you are lying, and they will hold that against you. With a written record in front of you you can not be trapped this way.

[JimRed]

I see frequent ads about how pleasant it is to retire to Belize. Had not seen that side of the story.

[Bigg Red]

I am sure that the average person advocating the SS&S approach is not seriously talking about human targets.

On another note, the writer of this piece needs to have his comma license revoked. Dizzying!

[rellimpank]

--best book on the subject is Alan Corwin's After You Shoot, available through his website Gunlaws.com--