Lie Detection

Lie Detection

If you live in a country where everybody lies, it is very easy to get sucked up by the smaller lies.

Our media and daily papers are very good at it.

They call it editing.

The editors of our local papers lie for their investors and for political convenience.

They best way to avoid lies is not to listen to daily media news or daily news papers.

I have been doing that for few years to gather my childhood sanity back into my life and home.

The first day of my working life was a big lie.

It was a police officer who lied to me.

His consorts were public health inspector, the village headman, school teacher, coroner and few others.

All of them were involved in the killing of the local thug except perhaps the coroner.

I later added few magistrates, too into this list.

It was my postmortem labourer who guided me.

He said all of them are liars and not to trust them.

From that say I coined a phrase, “that everything in my working life is a lie until proven otherwise”.

One has to be paranoid about it.

Our lawyers are trained to lie from birth.

That is why they take up that profession.

I will finish with a true story.

To keep you excited, I will not tell you why this guy lied.

I had a brief practice in Kandy.

One day guy came from my current resident locality.

I was new to this locality then and I did not know anybody except the pharmacists.

I visited few pharmacies and tendered my signature and telephone number for verification (standard practice abroad).

This guy wanted whole body X-rays.

I declined and ordered only a chest X-ray and asked him to come back with films.

He did the next day and it was OK and I told him if you need more X-rays for the money I could orders an I.V.P and that will clear any kidney problems.

Idea was to put him off with needles and because of his insistence ordered an abdominal X-rays and a nasty purgative to go with it.

From the first day, I had figured out this guy was an impostor of some sort.

Few days later he came back with the abdominal X-rays but it was of very poor quality with lot of gases and he had not taken the purgative as suggested.

It confirmed my suspicion.

Then he laid out the biggest lie of his time to me stating they went to Ratnapura and the vehicle crashed. between Kegalle and Ruwanwella.

I asked him the exact location of the crash and put him under duress and he could not.

I had worked in Ratnapura and Kegalle and I knew every possible accident prone location but his location was not verifiable.

I declined telling him a liar but asked my wife about the family and she told me not to trust them.

His father was a bogus M.E.P. candidate in my current locality.

I refused anymore full body X-rays and a week later, I got a call from Australia purported to be his relative and an engineer.

I point blank told him that he was a liar and cannot be an engineer in Australia.

Australians, particularly engineers, except perhaps (recent) cricketers are not liars, I told him.

Later, I figured out their plan was to get Visa under political victimization (they did not want to use JVP label but MEP was an easy victim).

That brings me to politics and our politicians are the best liars in the world.

Wait till the next Presidential election more lies will be laid down (RIP) and the biggest liar will win.