Blood From Mosquito Traps Car Thief

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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I can see it now:

[Ethanol-fueled]

[ Intro to latest CSI: Miami episode as ripped from the headlines: ]

Police officer: "We were able to extract the suspect's blood from a mosquito found in the car."

David Caruso: "Heh heh heh..."

David Caruso: "SUCKERRRRR!"

[ YEAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!! ]

Re:I can see it now:

[mollymoo]

Are cops also trained to insert a needless dramatic pause and moody look every five seconds? Thanks to David Caruso's constant posing, for a long time I thought CSI:Miami was a parody of Zoolander.

Re:I can see it now:

[10bellies]

Who buys that ultra-nationalist, self-righteous, moralist crap?

Americans?

Those Finns are dedicated

[religious freak]

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.

Re:Those Finns are dedicated

[Anonymous Coward]

My girlfriend

[citation needed]

Re:Those Finns are dedicated

[CorporateSuit]

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.

Not like Finnish police have anything better to do. There are no good donut shops in Finland.

Re:Those Finns are dedicated

[religious freak]

Seriously. She's my wife now. I was very young when I met her... This is our first date

(DISCLAIMER: I don't actually know this site, but pulling up the jpg seemed safe enough for me)

Re:Those Finns are dedicated

[Finallyjoined!!!]

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.

Re:Those Finns are dedicated

[daem0n1x]

Cool, let's just drop police altogether and hire a bunch of thugs to protect us. Then we can happily go back to the Middle Ages.

Re:Those Finns are dedicated

[Miseph]

Although it gives me an interesting idea... see, I live just south of a large Libertarian enclave (let's just call it "New Hampshire") with vastly inferior numbers and resources than my own place of residence (we'll pretend it's Massachusetts), as well as holding a close political and ideological alliance with our common neighbor (that would be Vermont). My proposal is that we test their dedication to the abolition of federal government by raising a large militia, possibly including high priced Carolinian mercenaries, and looting the shit out of them. It will be the ultimate test: their lax gun regulations versus our actual ability to purchase weapons and possession of at least two active military bases... I expect the conflict to be almost as epic and drawn out as the invasion of Iraq.

Too many factors

[ZephyrXero]

I could see the mosquito based evidence as enough to consider him a suspect, maybe even to get a search warrant perhaps (although that's already a stretch), but by no means should this even remotely count towards conviction as that mosquito could have come from almost anywhere. Still if finding the DNA in the mosquito leads them to find actual evidence, I suppose it's okay.

Re:Too many factors

[Nefarious Wheel]

...that mosquito could have come from almost anywhere...

Considering the medium, it could have come from a tax official.

Re:Too many factors

[_Sprocket_]

Did you just insult mosquitoes?

Re:Just one observation

[commodoresloat]

True, there were plenty of bloodsuckers on the OJ Simpson legal staff, but I'm not sure how testing their DNA would have helped much.

Re:Libelous story title?

[retech]

No, it was an actual mosquito.

Re:Just one observation

[Fluffeh]

Everyone is missing the VITAL question here!

Did the mosquito live?!