Wednesday, August 15, 2007

Latent Print Examiner

I have a buddy, Scott, that works for the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension (BCA) as a Latent Print Examiner (fancy name for an finger print specialist). I got an email from him today saying he helped crack a murder case in MN. Read it here. Kind of makes what I do feel a little less cool. But then again I couldn't have passed all the chemsitry had to take in college so it's all good. Having a buddy work for the BCA is cool, there's always soemthing new to talk about when we hang out. Instead of watching CSI we get to hear about the real deal.

One weekend Scott went out with us to the bars while he was on call. Since he was on call he was our DD. Around midnight he gets a page the reads "Murder scene Willmar", what are the friggen odds of that. The one night we go out while he's on call and there's crime scene in my home town. Crazy stuff... But to top it off while he was racing to drop us off and head down to the BCA he get's pulled over. He show's the cop the pager, with 5 drunks in the exploder the cop doesn't believe him so he heads back to his car to verify it and comes back laughing saying he's never heard that excuse before and lets him off.

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