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Blood From Mosquito Traps Car Thief

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the plausible-deniability dept.

Frosty Piss writes "Police in Finland have made an arrest for car theft based on a DNA sample taken from the blood found inside a mosquito. 'A police patrol carried out an inspection of the car and they noticed a mosquito that had sucked blood. It was sent to the laboratory for testing, which showed the blood belonged to a man who was in the police registers,' a police officer told reporters. The suspect, who has been interrogated, has insisted he did not steal the car, saying he had hitchhiked and was given a lift by a man driving the car. I'm wondering if the suspect should have denied any association with the car at all. After all, who knows where that mosquito had been?"

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  1. Those Finns are dedicated by religious+freak · · Score: 4, Interesting

    My girlfriend's car was stolen a number of years ago, and when it was recovered, the police weren't even interested in taking fingerprints, despite the fact that there was damage inside the car and property was stolen out of it.

    Good for you, Finland.

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    1. Re:Those Finns are dedicated by Finallyjoined!!! · · Score: 4, Interesting

      Agree, my car was stolen, whilst parked next to an occupied Police car, I was only away from it for about 10 minutes. Did I get any assistance? Nope. They "Didn't see anything". Good old Hampshire Constabulary.

      I got it back about 3 weeks later, well "got it back" isn't quite accurate, it was a burnt out wreck. Guess who had to pay for it to be removed.

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    2. Re:Those Finns are dedicated by Grimbleton · · Score: 3, Interesting

      Not quite on the same thread, my car died on me on the way to work Saturday, right in front of a State Trooper.

      Instead of finding out if I was okay when I didn't immediately move from the stop light when it turned green, he laid on his horn and pulled around me angrily and nearly spun his tires going around me glaring at me.

      Then when I pushed it off the road into a parking spot (Watched by another trooper) and went home for our other car to jump start it (Alternator died on me, didn't take long to diagnose on the side of the road.) and drove it home, I came back to a parking ticket on the car I used to jump it when I came back for it ten minutes later (Walking, in 3* weather both to get the other car, and to get back to the first car, mind you.)

      To Protect and Serve... who, exactly?

  2. Don't you pay attention to Grisom? by Anachragnome · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Its not just the fact that the persons DNA was extracted from the mosquito, but that it had not yet expelled it as waste. It wasn't digested if it still contained DNA usable for testing.

    This means that they had a timeframe from which to work. Where was dude while buggy critter was digesting his blood? No alibi? Hah!

  3. Re:Advocating lying? by corsec67 · · Score: 3, Interesting

    No, the suspect shouldn't have talked to the police at all. Never talk to police, consent to any kind of search, or offer anything that you aren't legally required to.

    It can't help you.

    Don't just take my word, how about a law professor and a cop?

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