Completely innocent things you do that make you look like a serial killer

[Vegosiux]

I think "browser history" would be pretty much the universal answer for everyone, really.

I'm also an introvert and won't deal with people if I can help it.

I also really like hockey. And apparently serial killers have a thing for hockey masks or something.

 

[Redlin5_v1legacy]

My habit of sharpening the blades I'm starting to collect could be filed under this... <.<

 

[Hero of Lime]

I guess maintaining my grandpa's sword collection, especially when I clean and maintain them in the back yard, someone might think I'm sprucing up the swords for some late night killing frenzies. I doesn't help I have about five swords I keep in my room.

Also involving swords, we got permission to carry items like guns and blades to protect ourselves with in the hills behind my neighborhood when some other hikers were continually being attacked and stalked by packs of wolves. One day I had a sword on me while hiking, I ran into two people, one was a woman who gave me a concerned look until I explained the issue, and I met a man walking his dog, he didn't have a problem with me since he was carrying a revolver and a hunting knife on him.

 

[Lilani]

I always feel like a serial killer when the car in front of me happens to be going the same place I do. Making the same turns, staying in the same lane...I feel like I'm stalking them, lol. And then I begin to wonder if they feel like I'm stalking them.

 

[Ratties]

So much of my daily routine is pretty boring. Some of my browser history might raise a few eyebrows, it's nothing to write home about. One thing I have heard over and over again from strangers is the fact that I always look pissed off. One were to follow me all day, they would probably assume I am up to something. This stems from the fact that I hate people, I am to lazy to do anything about it.

 

[Baron_Rouge]

I completely innocently murdered a shitpot of people.

I'm South Australian, it's not uncommon here.

Ah yes, South Australia, home of gruesome murders and decomposing corpses stuffed into barrels. I think our state has some of the most interesting murders out there, so hey, state pride.

In relation to the original question, I, like the OP, have a pretty messed up search history relating to child sexual abuse, serial killers, and the like due to currently studying offender profiling in psychology. I also own every series of Dexter so far on DVD!

 

[piinyouri]

I'm really fidgety. I'm always tapping or slapping my hands on my legs or anything else I can get my hands on. Or tapping my feet incessantly.

People tend to think I'm some psychotic druggie about to snap.

 

[Beffudled Sheep_v1legacy]

I have an interest in chemistry so my web history is sometimes a series of instructions on the making of various acids or other things, how they react, strength, what they can and can't dissolve, how quickly they can dissolve flesh when submerged, how to harvest materials from batteries, make bombs etc.

I'm also an enthusiast of bladed weapons and tools so my various searches, purchases and maintaining of various sharp knives/swords probably doesn't look too good either.

I mean if the cops suddenly broke down my door they'd find a few knives, a machete and an axe (all sharpened and polished) and some hydroflouric acid >_>

Honestly I just make the shit for fun....

 

[Zhukov]

I always feel like a serial killer when the car in front of me happens to be going the same place I do. Making the same turns, staying in the same lane...I feel like I'm stalking them, lol. And then I begin to wonder if they feel like I'm stalking them.

Heh, I feel that way when I'm walking behind someone at night, especially if the other person is a woman.

Sometimes I overtake people and walk in front of them just so they won't think I'm following them.

 

[Username Redacted]

I find it highly irritating the my lack of a Facebook account is, these days (in addition to probably costing me several jobs as potential employers can't e-stalk me), considered a sign of sociopathic tendancies. Apparently if you're not part of a highly invasive social networking service then you're just itching to off some people.

 

[GabeZhul]

Yep, browser history here as well. In particular, I had a lot of searches regarding pedophilia, child porn, the laws concerning those (especially in regard of 2D drawings of children) and lolicon. The reason is that I am a mod on a database collecting info on eroge, and thus the issue about lolicon=/=pedophilia came up enough times to warrant some serious research for defining site policy.

Also, I live in a distant country and speak a funny language. Knowing most American agencies that would be probably enough to put me on the list of suspicious individuals...

I find it highly irritating the my lack of a Facebook account is, these days (in addition to probably costing me several jobs as potential employers can't e-stalk me), considered a sign of sociopathic tendancies. Apparently if you're not part of a highly invasive social networking service then you're just itching to off some people.

Same here, but thankfully employers in my country are a bit more old-fashioned, so there are less e-stalking and more "You are the son of the guy with whom I went to elementary school for two years and he once helped me cheat on the history test? You are hired! What, you don't have the qualifications yet? Don't worry, you'll learn them as you work. Now, get dressed, the heart-transplants won't do themselves!".

 

[regardlessrampage]

I always feel like a serial killer when the car in front of me happens to be going the same place I do. Making the same turns, staying in the same lane...I feel like I'm stalking them, lol. And then I begin to wonder if they feel like I'm stalking them.

Heh, I feel that way when I'm walking behind someone at night, especially if the other person is a woman.

Sometimes I overtake people and walk in front of them just so they won't think I'm following them.

i used to do that but one time as i sped up to pass the person in front of me they started running across the street, now i just cross the street and speed up, i don't want to get tazed for trying to be nice.

 

[uchytjes]

Firstly, until they start to actually act on this information I won't care about it.

Secondly, I think that my personal life in general can be seen as kinda creepy and "generic person that will snap". I am going to college, live with my parents, have a minimum wage job, and don't have many really close friends. Also, I am almost creepily nice to EVERYONE. But, once you do get to know me, you'd know that I do not wish any harm on anyone besides those that have done something unforgivable to me, and even then I don't wish for anything truly bad.

 

[Zhukov]

I always feel like a serial killer when the car in front of me happens to be going the same place I do. Making the same turns, staying in the same lane...I feel like I'm stalking them, lol. And then I begin to wonder if they feel like I'm stalking them.

Heh, I feel that way when I'm walking behind someone at night, especially if the other person is a woman.

Sometimes I overtake people and walk in front of them just so they won't think I'm following them.

i used to do that but one time as i sped up to pass the person in front of me they started running across the street, now i just cross the street and speed up, i don't want to get tazed for trying to be nice.

Well, I'm yet to be tazed, but I've been screamed at.

I used to go jogging at night, mostly so fewer people would see me sweating my majestic bulk along the track. One night I came galloping up behind a couple of young women going in the same direction. They heard me, turned, saw me coming, decided that some guy going for a jog constituted a defcon 2 situation and promptly started squealing their little heads off. One of them nearly fell into the river.

 

[nykirnsu]

I completely innocently murdered a shitpot of people.

I'm South Australian, it's not uncommon here.

Yeah, it's even become part of the state's advertising.

OT: I can't think of anything particularly incriminating.

 

[vOID_vISION]

Hehe, when I was a bit younger I often went out biking at night (at like 1AM sometimes) because I live in a desert and it's too hot to bike during the day. But, sometimes I got a bit bored and ACTUALLY stalked people just for fun. I see some other biker or jogger, get behind them, keep my distance and see where they're going. I simply explored everything around where I lived so it was fun to see what routes other people took. A few times while doing this I got too close and the person noticed me, so I often got yelled at and it was pretty awkward. But if NSA was watching me while I did this it would for sure look suspicious, especially since I was pretty big for my age and you couldn't make out I was a kid in the dark.

Other than that, I can also often be seen suspiciously hanging around railroads. Thing is I'm obsessed with them and trains. I remember I even switched junctions myself, at least the old manual ones. Can be easily seen as sabotaging.

But honestly I don't care if the NSA really spies on us or not, they can't put me in jail for too long just because I hang around weird places by myself.

 

[Darks63]

When I had a project I searched alot about serial killers and methods used to catch them in particular Gary Ridgway's case. I also have bought a Machete, a hatchet, tried to get a gun, and a firewood axe.

I also research on my own random things that catch my fancy some of which could be considered weird or fringy.

I find it highly irritating the my lack of a Facebook account is, these days (in addition to probably costing me several jobs as potential employers can't e-stalk me), considered a sign of sociopathic tendencies. Apparently if you're not part of a highly invasive social networking service then you're just itching to off some people.

There this too I hate Facebook and when I get close to graduating I may be forced to get an account just so i appear "normal" to employers.

 

[MeChaNiZ3D]

The main thing is that occaisonally I'll try to move as silently as possible just for fun, manually guiding gate mechanisms and spending a minute closing a hydraulic door, and similarly I sometimes try to leave things exactly the way I found them, observing orientation and position of the peanut butter before using it and replicating that when I put it back. In highschool I used to sharpen sticks using only the ground, and they got lethal, but were I a serial killer you'd think I'd be smart enough not to do that so obviously.

 

[M0rp43vs]

I read an article that basically said "If you aren't white, avoid flying on nine eleven like the plague!" Is that just rumours and hearsay, or is it really that bad?

Speaking only from experience, while I've never used an American airport, with UK and Dutch ones, its very rare that I don't get stopped at least once. Though in the case of immigration, it could be more that lots of people think my country exists ("Oh sure, you're from "Brunei". Let me call some people to make sure while we put you in a tiny room with a bunch of other shady looking bearded middle easterns"). With security checks though, I doubt there's any excuse for making me repeat the process. I don't even have a massive beard...

OT:Now that I think about it, my fascination with knives would probably get me into trouble... if I weren't s practitioner of the martial art of Kali.

 

[Froggy Slayer]

My goth friend and I often end up having conversations about subjects such as mass murderers, venomous animals and other cheery things on the bus.