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daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mark)
Fri Jul 1 17:31:06 1994
To: humor@MIT.EDU
Date: Fri, 01 Jul 94 17:23:23 EDT
From: Mark <hershey@MIT.EDU>
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Sounds silly, but it's not too far from how polygraphs can be used
on people who don't understand them. Perhaps Don's dad has heard
about this story.
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A judge admonished the police in Radnor, Pa., for pretending a Xerox
copy machine was a lie detector. Officials had placed a metal colander
on the head of a suspect and attached the colander to the copier with
metal wires. In the copy machine was a typewritten message: "He's lying."
Each time investigators received answers they didn't like, they pushed
the copy button and out popped the message, "He's lying." Apparently
convinced the machine was accurate, the suspect confessed.
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