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Cancer Patient Held At Airport For Missing Fingerprints
A 62-year-old man visiting his relatives in the US was held for four hours by immigration officials after they could not detect his fingerprints because of a cancer drug he was taking. The man was prescribed capecitabine, a drug used to treat cancers in the head, neck, breast, and stomach. Some of the drug's side-effects include chronic inflammation of the palms or soles of the feet, which can cause the skin to peel or bleed. "This can give rise to eradication of fingerprints with time," explained Tan Eng Huat, senior consultant in the medical oncology department at Singapore's National Cancer Center. "Theoretically, if you stop the drug, it will grow back, but details are scanty. No one knows the frequency of this occurrence among patients taking this drug and nobody knows how long a person must be on this drug before the loss of fingerprints," he added.
probably a wheelchair
Oh god, that woman is John Romero!
Once I saw this movie, and some policemen caught Santa Claus, and he had snowflake fingerprints. Seriously. You should see it.
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Yes, they catch shampoo smugglers all the time.
Terrible New Terrorism Drug Helps Terrorists Evade Identification And Cause More Terrible Terror.
We must ban anti-cancer drugs. The terrorists might use them. Terrorists could hurt children. Think of the children!
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In an episode of the original Adam West "Batman" series, the caped crusader was performing a high-tech fingerprint scan on all the citizens leaving some sort of event. Along comes a long-nosed fellow -- obviously The Penguin, since his disguise was about as effective as Superman's "Clark Kent" cover. Batman attempts the fingerprint scan, but the man has no fingerprints.
"Holy Nonsequitur, Batman!" the intrepid Robin exclaims, "it's plastic!"
"Yes, I believe that's what the surgeon used," replies the ersatz innocent civilian.
Batman lets him go, but confides to Robin that he knows it's the Penguin -- but now that the dastardly enemy thinks he's slipped the trap, he will now lead them to the bad guys' secret lair.
Obviously, the TSA should have done the same with this guy. Then, they could have found the entire Al Qaida leadership, probably meeting in a rakishly tilted room, behind the one-way mirror in a seedy magic shop.
Stressed? Me? Of course not. Stress is what a rubber band feels before it breaks, silly.
Catfish are toxic. Apparently they have such toxicity that they burn of your fingerprints if you handle enough of them.
Knowledge is power. Knowledge shared is power lost.
She secretly works for the MIB. They remove your fingerprints when they join. Every time you discover this, however, she gets you with her little memory-zapper-thingy.
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That doesn't sound so good in German either.
Nothing sounds good in German. The words "I love you" sound so guttural that most people start thinking back to certain speeches at Nuremberg a few decades ago ;)
Of course to be fair I'd imagine that English sounds the same way to non-native speakers, given it's Germanic roots. Italian on the other hand.... "I'm gonna kill you" sounds like "I love you" to a non-native speaker. I'm told this can lead to misunderstandings when being mugged in Rome..... ;)
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We are the United States Government! We don't do that sort of thing.
Most terrorists aren't exactly the sharpest marbles in the sack, either
Sharp marbles? That explains it! No wonder this guy's got worn down fingerprints! Give him the round smooth marbles we use to use when I was a kid and it'll all be fine.
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I dunno, I'm stumped.
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I have to agree. Listen to someone from Bavaria speaking, it almost has a lilt to it.
I hate your pretty bullets.
NO SIG
Try listening to German porn. Its hilarious!
You forgot:
Eve: Boys, ready a unit for dispatch...
Try listening to German porn. Its hilarious!
Ja, meine panzerwagen, das ist gut!
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