Salyavin wrote:
Did they volunteer this information, or were they asked? All sorts
volunteered this info, police, pedestrians near the car etc. Just about
everyone was interviewed.
OK, I'm still skeptical of sense-witnesses as a source of factual information.
Did I mention that
OK, I'm still skeptical of sense-witnesses as a source of factual
information Interesting. I remember reading about a tribe in the Amazon who
claimed they had heard a rare animal that an explorer was looking for. But did
you see it? he'd ask. It didn't matter to them, they lived in a dark
For the record, I don't just automatically disbelieve sense-witnesses; but
there's been so much recent research about the unreliability of eyewitness
testimony (not to mention false memory) that I can't automatically accept such
testimony either.
I think I'm least trustful of nosewitness
