#420 – Printed
Posted on July 13, 2012 at 12:00 am by Chris
Chapter: Comic
I remember stories of people paying a baker to “burn off” their fingerprints so they could commit crimes without being tracked down. Seemed a bit overkill. Couldn’t they just wear gloves?
Tags: fingerprints, jail, police
I know from painful experience that if you burn off your fingerprints then they grow back anyway, so unless you’re committing the crime in a week (to let your fingers heal and scar) and planning not to get called up by the police for about 2 months (so the prints regrow) it wouldn’t work anyway.
On the bright side, the regrowth of finger-tip may be the key that unlocks human regeneration.
There is quite a bit of research going on on that right now.
actually an experimental substance has been developed that may be capable of easily replacing lost tissue. I don’t know a whole lot about It, I just remember seeing it in a documentary once. I think it’s basically this gel-like stuff that’s full of stem cells or whatever.
That’s one of the reasons you see burglers use sandpaper on their fingertips in cartoons.
Or that one episode of CSI where one guy cut off the skin on his fingertips, cut those up, mixed them up, and re-attached the resulting Frankenprints (as one character called them), so that he couldn’t be traced back to the crimes. Points for creativity, but he still got caught.
Yeah, I saw that episode too. They simply re-assembled his original prints like a jigsaw puzzle using photos of the Frankenprints.
“The fingered suspect was all thumbs.”
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