I was once falsely accused of threatening a guy who it turned out was a nut and a hard core criminal. Part of the accusations was that I cursed him repeatedly.
I was a Federal agent at the time and had to be investigated.
I was not really worried because as luck would have it, another agent happened to be present but unseen at the scene. His written report backed me up totally. Still they had to do the investigation.
The interesting thing was the inspector finished the examination then we just sat there for another half hour and shot the bull. To my surprise he mentioned that he noted I had never used a single word of profanity during the entire time. It then struck me that he was still investigating when I thought he had finished and we were just talking.
On one hand, it is probably better to just not say anything in a serious case but in my particular situation, since it was pretty clear cut, I was probably better off totally cooperating.
I did realize just how tricky they could be.
“The interesting thing was the inspector finished the examination then we just sat there for another half hour and shot the bull. To my surprise he mentioned that he noted I had never used a single word of profanity during the entire time. It then struck me that he was still investigating when I thought he had finished and we were just talking.”
I always tell people that a job interview begins at first contact and doesn’t end until the first paycheck. Pretty much the same here.