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Post by sadie1263 on Feb 24, 2011 1:12:22 GMT
You were raised by an abusive, nasty relative, your Aunt. She is, however, massively wealthy and you put up with the abuse for some of the perks of the fabulous estate you get to live on. She had no children of her own.
A couple of years ago she married an idiot that came along with an even worse adult child.
One night you overhear them plotting to kill your Aunt with some poison. They are going to put it in her sugar that she uses for her coffee every morning. That morning you go in to breakfast to tell her everything. To your surprise....she is cooking! She tells you she wants to surprise her husband and step son with a special breakfast since they’ve been so sweet and is making them a special breakfast. She is using “the sugar” in her recipe. They don’t know. They walk in to see her mixing the sugar into her coffee and are all smiles and sit down to eat her special meal.
You can sit back and let them all die..........and probably inherit everything or you can stop them or call for help. Keep in mind.....how did you know about the sugar....and the husband and son are probably going to point the finger at you.
What do you do?
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Post by beez0811 on Feb 24, 2011 3:03:40 GMT
Call the police as an anonymous tipster. Auntie may be a witch, but she'll get hers later. Karma is a bigger bitch.
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Post by sadie1263 on Feb 25, 2011 0:31:22 GMT
True......karma does have a nasty way of coming back......
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Post by Deleted on Feb 25, 2011 12:45:43 GMT
I would convince myself....(you may have gathered by now that I'm quite fond of doing that!)
.....I would decide that the plotters had not gone ahead with the scheme and that all was well, that morning at least.
However, I wouldn't eat the breakfast - pancakes perhaps? Hate the things anyway. Oh - perhaps I am not invited to breakfast. Better still.
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Post by iamjumbo on Feb 25, 2011 13:20:09 GMT
report what you heard to the cops. spill your aunt's coffee. let the husband and son die. the autopsy will show that they died from the poison that you had already told the cops they were planning to use. your aunt had better be thankful that you saved her life and give everything to you
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Post by Deleted on Feb 26, 2011 7:10:52 GMT
Jumbo, I hate to admit that your idea was better than mine, but it does at least recognise that the aunt may have willed all her money to a cat's home so it is in our interests to keep her alive, at least until hubby and stepson have been dispatched.
But will she believe you? Will the police?
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Post by iamjumbo on Feb 27, 2011 19:38:23 GMT
Jumbo, I hate to admit that your idea was better than mine, but it does at least recognise that the aunt may have willed all her money to a cat's home so it is in our interests to keep her alive, at least until hubby and stepson have been dispatched. But will she believe you? Will the police? the police should. if you were the one who was doing it, why would you inform the police in advance? shrewd? nope. the police would be able to ascertain where the poison came from, and since you did not buy it, you would be clear. since you know that your aunt has left the money to the husband and son, there would be no percentages in your killing her before they were dead. your aunt should be eternally grateful. there is no guarantee of course, being the sort that she is.
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Post by Lauren on Jul 13, 2011 4:48:22 GMT
Here's what I would do:
I know about the sugar. Put the sugar in my coffee, before the husband and son come down. Make it look like I've drank some. Don't have any pancakes. Not in the mood for them.
See the husband and son. They eat the pancakes. Since they have no idea she used the poisonous sugar, the three of them die.
Call the ambulance and the police. They'll ask if anything was different today. I'll explain that my aunt was in a good mood, and made pancakes, but something was off. She didn't use the regular sugar she normally uses for baking, which I thought was odd but dismiss it. Sugar is sugar. Then I'll say, there was something else that was weird. The husband freaked when my aunt was about to put sugar in his coffee, and he said he could make his own cup. He said something about not wanting to have sugar in his coffee if he was having syrup, which is weird because he never used to care.
Eventually the police will figure out the sugar has been poisoned. I would have pinned it on the husband and son to poison both me and my aunt, and they just assumed that I had drank enough of my coffee to be poisoned as well. They wouldn't have counted on my aunt using the same sugar for baking as she did for coffee, because she never does, and I would have successfully made it look like karma got both the husband and the son.
Basically, I would lie and play stupid if I hated everyone.
Or, I would just wait until everyone had gone to bed and got rid of the poisoned sugar/hid it, and called the cops.
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