You can enhance your privacy when browsing and posting to this forum by using the free and open source Tor Browser and posting as a guest (using a fake e-mail address such as nobody@nowhere.com) or registering with a free, anonymous ProtonMail e-mail account. Registered users can exchange private messages with other registered users and receive notifications.
Hello everyone, This is a nice forum, and I have learned alot already. I want to tell a condensed version of my polygraph story...
In April '99, I was living in a house with 2 other guys. On a Sunday night, I returned home with some friends from a concert to the house. I was told by one of my roommates that there "was some money missing from the house."
We called the police, and they were by in a day or so to take statements from us all. I moved out about a month later, and back with my parents. Things were getting bad with the friends, blah, blah, blah...
In September 1999, I was called by the police, and that I had been accused of taking the money! I was not impressed. So the police asked if I want to take a polygraph test to clear my name. I of course said yes!
So about 2 weeks later, I take the test. It took all in all about 2 hours total. And guess what? I failed! I didn't take the money, and I wouldn't be here if I had.
So I question anyone out there that gooes on record and says that polygraph tests are very accurate - something like what...97%? Well, obviously I was in the 3%. And sure everyone and their cat says they didn't do it, but I am not kidding.
Polygraph tests, in my opinion, are majorly flawed and the public needs to know that facts and figures are being blurred so that people that aren't guilty - like me - have to live with the guilt of people thinking they are guilty when they aren't.
Now why would I fail the test? Poor interviews? Faulty equipment? Nervousness? Decpetion on the police's part? I'd love to hear some reasons why I would fail the test.
Thanks for reading this.
As a musician, I write music about things that happen in my life. Read these lyrics at the end of this post so you can see how I felt the day I failed the test.
Dale Lyons
----------------------------------------
Anguished (Lyons)
It's so hard for me to understand How I could be so wrong When I know deep in my heart It isn't the truth
Distraught over an outcome I couldn't even begin to imagine Questioning my honesty Destroying my integrity
Accusations and deception Weigh so heavily on my mind All alone with my thoughts Wondering how it changed so fast
Someone's asking for apologies For a mistake I didn't make Searching for the answers All I wanted was the truth
I'm lifeless, I'm dead beyond myself Waiting for a chance at redemption My persistance will pay off To one day clear my name of it all
No matter what I say or do It won't change a goddamned thing I'll never relent to only appease To people I will never trust again
crappity smack your machines and crappity smack your vendettas Settle these accusations Steal away my pride and kill my name In time we'll find out who's to blame