How I Passed a Lie Detector Test

In the pursuit of truth and justice law enforcement has often turned to the polygraph or lie detector test to see whether or not an individual is being honest. How one performs upon the lie detector can weigh heavily on the persons reputation as a suspect. What follows is my personal experience having taken a lie detector test, how I beat it, and why I do not believe in them as reliable tools.

I am not going to give you technological definitions or a history on the different lie detecting machines and methods, nor relate any other instances in which people have claimed lie detectors worked or failed. Instead let me start right off with: the crime. I was working as a manager in a fast food restaurant in which we were understaffed and stressed to the limit. Adding to our troubles was the fact that the money counts involving the safe were bouncing here and there and everywhere worse than a Gummy Bear on Meth. Between myself and the other managers the daily total for what was kept in the safe and cash drawers kept dropping, then rising, but then ultimately dropping again. Common sense told me that someone was pocketing some cash, and due to experience with past instances I knew at least one member of the staff had it in their mind they could borrow money as long as they repaid it. Finally weary of the financial inaccuracies I made a call to my district manager to let her know my suspicions and details of the record keeping situation. She told me that she would stop in for a visit the following day, which was my day off. I had done my part to help solve the matter and spent that evening running business as usual and closing the store, therefore I was the last one to slide a deposit envelope into the safe.