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What could happen if you would just walk into a police station and say: I want to turn myself in and I take the 5th. (lemmy.world)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Of course without committing a crime before and without saying anything else.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

"The fifth" is American. They have the same or similar concept in other countries, they just have different names for it than "the fifth amendment".

Plead "the fifth" in NZ and they'll tell you that you watch too much American television.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I know that. I was trying to get him to understand that the op was talking in a generic sense. Both op and myself realize that new Zealand has an equivalent concept of the fifth. Op wasn't trying to say walk in and literally say "plead the fifth" but walk in and do the equivalent of that.

People get way to literal when they don't need to be.

[–] [email protected] -5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

You're right. I thought everyone here knows "the 5th" and it's just shorter than "the right to remain silent". However, most people seem to have got the right idea.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago (1 children)

That's the second most American centric thing I've read today.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Even those that are complaining about the op using the term "the fifth" knew what it basically translated to,

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Nope, never heard of it.

The US isn't the centre of the world.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

You personally might not have heard about it. Look at the other comments. It's obvious most did.