Sunday, 23 December 2007
GET A BISCUIT.
As a terrapin i have hardly ever been required by the Aquatic Authorities to provide fingerprints for the purposes of crime solving. I suppose i would have a unique set. Unlike dna which i unfortunately share with my semi-criminal brother who i have wasted too much time locked up as an innocent party in jail (underwater) because of. Anyway. Can anyone clarify whether you can roll your fingers/ feet around and around on the police paper so as to make a very long imprint that would be virtually infinite? This would be easier underwater, especially with waterproof ink. Do you think Policemen would be amenable to this or would they get annoyed? Do you think it would hold up the law or uphold it? Do you think we should be able to get a biscuit if we give fingerprints? Do our fingers gradually wear down if we are criminal enough but never get past the fingerprinting stage, out of luck?
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i have actually tried this, unless you are doing your finger print lying down you run into trouble owing to the inflexible or should i say unrotatablity of the wrist in the right direction , - so lie on the floor and roll over and over with ur finger on the paper - this runs into two issues a) the length of the paper - is it actually long enough to test the theory? and b) fingernails - unfortunately if you have a finger nail its impossible to make a really really long finger print. as to biscuits i think youre confusing this with blood donating - the police dont really have as much time for tea and biscuits as the red cross they prefer to spot people driving cars - its abit like train spotting i think.
yes i do mean lying on the floor, and yes i have also worried about the fingernail. You would have to take it off, and you probably wouldn't want to. Or perhaps we needn't worry because maybe every NAIL has its own unique print? Why not apply a unique blob of varnish to each nail on each finger to be done?
Problems of infinity do indeed arise. There is infinite paper, but I'm not sure the Police are the sort of people to stock it. We might have to take it with us.
I am definitely NOT confusing this with blood donating, but i do acknowledge a pervasive sense of general confusion about everything else.
Thankyou Swaffette you have done a very helpful blog and i can see it becoming a hot topic.
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