We were pretty certain we knew roughly where he’d been, but members of the public have an unnerving tendency… — Ben Aaronovitch
We were pretty certain we knew roughly where he’d been, but members of the public have an unnerving tendency to switch straight from lying to your face to telling you what they think you want to hear—with no intervening period of veracity at all.
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