hameater

No, they are made of cheese. Full of holes.

This happened to me - a guy passed a fake $100 to me at my work about thirty years ago. Got to court and had a chat with the prosecution lawyer. He asked me if I had seen the defendant since the day I got the fake bill. I said I saw him in the courtroom. Lawyer got real deflated-looking.

It wasn't him - the guy was in a waiting room somewhere else. They had to inform the defense that the witness (me) misidentified the accused so charges were dropped.

I later remembered doing the photo ID thing, staring at pictures. I got to a specific photo, and one of the detectives checked their watch. My guess was they were going to time me to see how long it took me to recognise 'their guy'. So I said 'That's him,' just to help them. I had no idea until much later how awful that was of me and how badly i could have fucked over some kid's life.

Yeah this was decades before I had even heard of face blindness.

It was not easy to admit it wasn’t my fault - I really wanted to help. I’m sure that added some bias.

I’ve since witnessed other crimes (a stolen car crashed near me and the guy fled on foot) and i straight up told the police ‘Do not ask me what he looked like.’