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Murder Suspect Asked Siri Where To Hide a Dead Body
An anonymous reader writes A Florida man currently on trial for murder reportedly attempted to use Siri to garner ideas about where to bury the body of his dead roommate. According to police allegations, a University of Florida student named Pedro Bravo murdered his roommate via strangulation in late September of 2012 over a dispute involving Bravo's ex- girlfriend. According to a detective working the case, Bravo subsequently fired up Siri on his iPhone and asked it "I need to hide my roommate."
I wonder why my first thought upon seeing the headline was to assume it happened in Florida.
All those old Clippy jokes are becoming reality
Table-ized A.I.
Siri was cheating on him with the roommate as well.
Figures it's a UF student. In a state with swamps teeming with alligators he's got to ask his phone what to do with a dead body. This is why a college education costs so much. Trying to teach dumb asses like this anytihing beyond beer chugging has got to cost a fortune. He sounds like a futre CEO.
It could have been Germany...
This issue is a bit more complicated than you think.
like Google and Microsoft as the moral police and they are trying to tell us what not to do. I suppose if we ask Siri how to avoid taxes now we probably will end up like Wesley Snipes.
He didn't actually do this. Please do a little research.
This story has already been debunked. It was a saved screenshot (different cell carrier and all).
No, Pedro Bravo Didn't Ask Siri Where to Stash His Roommate's Body
has first-hand experience with cold-blooded mass murderers.
R.I.P. legions of covenants
EVERYONE has asked Siri this question. It went viral in the first days of Siri. Even my 14 year old daughter has done it and the image is passed around to everyone.
Peter predicted that you would "deliberately forget" creation 2000 years ago...
Asking Siri where to hide a dead body was one of the first favorite phrases when that service came out. She would recommend bogs, swamps and landfills depending on what was nearest. These days she's not quite that helpful, tho...
Does anyone know what that really means?
I don't know, sorry. But remember, there is always Soylent News.
http://www.wuft.org/news/2014/08/13/no-pedro-bravo-didnt-ask-siri-where-to-stash-his-roomates-body
there. end. now somebody fire the submitter.
I just keep wondering when we are going to get there.
My ism, it's full of beliefs.
And more relevantly, did her answer involve lye?
Mod me down with all of your hatred and your journey towards the dark side will be complete!
"I'm sorry Dave I'm afraid I can't do that."
My favorite response she had for that question was "What, again?"
I'm trying to teach myself to set people on fire with my mind... Is it hot in here?
"Siri, where do I hide a dead body?"
"Siri, how do I get arrested by the police?"
"Siri, where can I hire an incompetent but really cheap lawyer?"
"Siri, how do I get convicted by the jury?"
"Siri, how do I get the judge to sentence me to death instead of to life in prison?"
"Siri, when do I collect my Darwin Award?"
The less you do with a murdered body the better. If in Florida there are always alligators that can solve your problem. Warm humid weather and natural decomposition in a warm humid environment is taking care of a corpse better than trying to burn it. Especially if you have an area with wild carnivorous animals (Alligators, Coyotes, Foxes, Rats...)
If builders built buildings the way programmers wrote programs, then the first woodpecker would destroy civilization.
Apparently you can't tell the difference between these two things?
stupidity is still stupidity
What is next ?
Cupidity?
In fact, the police have repeatedly stated that the story simply isn't true. The defendant's iPhone 4 does not have Siri, and the screenshots were fabricated.
In fact it's looking very like the Apple connection is solely intended as a viral marketing stunt. Apple vendors are piggybacking a mundane murder trial with their astroturf in order to sell more iPhones.
http://www.latimes.com/nation/...
Heck, I remember when Siri came out, it was kind of a gag where I worked to ask Siri "where do I hide a dead prostitutes body" or some variation thereof, and some of the answers were, of course, hilarious.
File under 'M' for 'Manic ranting'
In Florida even the stark raving insane are found capable of intent and fit to stand trial. And I am certain that this genius is able to assist in his own defense as well. As far as i can tell any accused person in Florida that can form one or two words is fodder for execution. There may be cases where a person is so far gone that he makes sounds like a pig feeding at a trough and nothing at all intelligible might be found unfit for trial but it must be rare. If they have an IQ of 20 and can breath unassisted and are at least twelve years old Florida has no problems punishing them which we all know corrects their behavior 100% of the time.
The body was buried in limestone, it shows some forethought since limerock is hard to dig but will significantly speed up decomposition.
And did you exchange a walk on part in the war for a lead role in a cage? - Pink Floyd.
The screenshot posted in the article shows a question "Where can I hide my roommate". Unlike the joke question "where can I hide a body", there isn't really any indication that there is a dead person involved. More a case of the landlord entering and not knowing that you sublet your apartment and need to hide your roommate. So it is highly unlikely that Siri would give (joke) advice where to hide a dead body.
:-) so the whole story is made up.
Second, Siri doesn't give advice on hiding dead bodies anymore.
Third, Siri never gave advice including swamps.
Fourth, while it is conceivable that Apple would have traces of a Siri search somewhere on their servers (but very unlikely, because it doesn't serve any purpose for Apple, is a privacy violation, and can only cause cost by having to serve subpoenas), and slightly more likely that there would be traces of a search on your iPhone, why would there be a screenshot stored on your iPhone that the police can find?
And fifth, it seems the accused had no iPhone that was capable of using Siri
Actually lime does the opposite, it can preserve bodies. As in the natural Korean mummies. I understand it could reduce the smell however.
"The novel burial system in tombs with a lime-soil mixture barrier was thereafter adopted increasingly by the ruling elite, and has even influenced the funeral customs of modern Korea (Chung, 1994).
The medieval mummies in Korea, the subject of the present study, were found exclusively in tombs with a lime-soil mixture barrier."
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2100341/
They have also been found in limestone caves in Peru.
http://www.mummytombs.com/mummylocator/group/chachapoya.htm
Perhaps you were thinking of Lye?
Donald Trump, on a crusade to make Nixon look respectable
Smart, probably preparing for an insanity defense.
What was the answer??
In fact a LOT of people ask siri , "where can I hide a dead body" It's one of the funniest Easter eggs siri has."
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It appears to be a way of representing the dash, used to attribute a quotation, with Slashdot's notoriously poor character set support.
If you're good enough at fact-checking fiction, you can get paid to do it. Visit Cracked.com and look for the "Write for Us" button. With a name like Smythe, you'd be a shoo-in.
The problem is, if your roommate really does wind up dead, and there's evidence pointing to you, the police will ask Siri who did it, and she'll tell on you.
Slow down, cowboy! It has been 4 hours since you last posted. You must wait another few hours.
That's the first honest assessment of beta by the /. editors so far. I'm calling this progress.
Is it just my observation, or are there way too many stupid people in the world?
Bravo, Pedro. Bravo!
In C++, your friends can see your privates.
Real reporters and the jury actually noticed that the accused had an iPhone 4 at the time, which DOES NOT support accessing Siri [unless jailbroken, of which there was no evidence supplied to indicate it was], AND that all the prosecution introduced was a screen-shot of the Siri request.
Look, just because the guy was allegedly willing to kill someone in cold blood, that doesn't also mean he's willing to do something as drastic as infringe on anyone's intellectual property rights. I mean, let's be fair! There's no need to jump to such extreme conclusions.
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It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education. - Einstein
Wow. According to that story, the prosecutor did show a screengrab of an iPhone Siri query for this, but it was actually taken from the Facebook cache on the defendant's phone, meaning it was just a funny picture making the rounds on Facebook. I can't imagine why the judge let him show that, since it proves absolutely nothing, but it is a hell of a way to prejudice the jury against the defendant.
It should be illegal to say that freedom of speech should be limited.
The includes browser records, google searches, etc. for major crimes. Its didnt quite work for the Newtown killer who trashed is computer and operated under aliases.
I just received a large kickback from my congressman. Where should I invest the proceeds?
Have gnu, will travel.
Wouldn't it be better if he had asked ..
"Siri, how do I get a way with murder?"
And then have the Jury find him innocent?
He didn't *ask* Siri for help. Siri just told him where and also where to pick up the body.
I think that makes Apple an accessory to murder. :-) It would be funny if a lawsuit were brought against them.
www.reddit.com/r/floridaman is one of my favorite reddits.
'nuff said.
I fail to see how this would be an effective marketing stunt. What's the message?
* Hey, murderers use our devices and love them. Homicidal maniacs save 10% on your next iDevice purchase. It's a killer deal!
or
* We record all your searches and provide them upon request to the police and intelligence agencies. Citizen, it's your duty to buy an iDevice in the interest of public safety.
Pretty crazy they record all voice requests to Siri
I wouldn't be surprised if they activate the camera remotely to spy
And then have the Jury find him not guilty?
FTFY
"That's right...I said it."
So, let me get this right. This story (fabrication, whatever) implies that Apple users are so fucking retarded as to do something like this, and that Apple VENDORS are using this demonstration of the retardedness of Apple USERS to sell more Apple stuff to those same Apple USERS.
Now, I've never liked Apple stuff after owning one for a couple of years. But I know that the guy who sold that Apple iWhatever to me (at a good price ; trying for a conversion!) wasn't a retard - I still work with him. So I think this story probably reflects worst on Apple salesmen. I could believe it of them.
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At least the worst has been avoided...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
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