Most unlikely TT content of the week...
06-27-2002, 07:53 AM
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Most unlikely TT content of the week...
Occaisionally, I take Adult Education classes. You know - all the cool stuff you couldn't actually learn in school. Anyway, between Boston and Cambridge, all sorts of odd stuff is available. The oddest (in my opinion) that I saw in the last catalog was Forensic Evidence. The class was last night.
It's pretty much just what it sounds like - a forensic scientist from the Boston Police Department Crime Lab lectures and leads demonstrations on all sorts of stuff - fingerprinting, shoeprint casting, blood tests, etc. It was very very cool.
Anyway, several times he referred to databases of different sorts that are used when trying to figure out where some clue came from. I thought the wildest one was the duct tape database! At one point he tells us there is a national car paint database and that there is a Ten Most Wanted List for it. (I think you see where this is going...)
"Does anybody own an Audi TT."
"Yep."
"We'll have talk after this."
Basically, they collect paint chips, run analysis on them, and store the findings. Then when someone runs over a motorcyclist or whatever, they can compare the paint scaped onto the poor guy's helmet and find out the year, make, and model of the offending car.
So, while I wasn't ready to offer up a quarter-sized sample from my car, I mentioned that I'm hooked up with a pretty big community of TTers, and occaisionally, despite our best efforts, one gets, um, smooshed. I figured I could probably get him samples in that sort of situation. If you currently have that sort of opportunity, or if you spot one in the future let me know. He needs a small sample, scraped out all the way down to the metal, and would eventually want to get all the different colors.
Worried about the downside? Yeah, it could get used against us to some extent, if you actually go and hit someone/some car and then take off. I weighed that against helping someone who helps catch/convinct the real SCUM of the earth (one example he used - kidnapping/rape... girl was 10) and it was a no-brainer.
It's pretty much just what it sounds like - a forensic scientist from the Boston Police Department Crime Lab lectures and leads demonstrations on all sorts of stuff - fingerprinting, shoeprint casting, blood tests, etc. It was very very cool.
Anyway, several times he referred to databases of different sorts that are used when trying to figure out where some clue came from. I thought the wildest one was the duct tape database! At one point he tells us there is a national car paint database and that there is a Ten Most Wanted List for it. (I think you see where this is going...)
"Does anybody own an Audi TT."
"Yep."
"We'll have talk after this."
Basically, they collect paint chips, run analysis on them, and store the findings. Then when someone runs over a motorcyclist or whatever, they can compare the paint scaped onto the poor guy's helmet and find out the year, make, and model of the offending car.
So, while I wasn't ready to offer up a quarter-sized sample from my car, I mentioned that I'm hooked up with a pretty big community of TTers, and occaisionally, despite our best efforts, one gets, um, smooshed. I figured I could probably get him samples in that sort of situation. If you currently have that sort of opportunity, or if you spot one in the future let me know. He needs a small sample, scraped out all the way down to the metal, and would eventually want to get all the different colors.
Worried about the downside? Yeah, it could get used against us to some extent, if you actually go and hit someone/some car and then take off. I weighed that against helping someone who helps catch/convinct the real SCUM of the earth (one example he used - kidnapping/rape... girl was 10) and it was a no-brainer.
