If you did, given those fingerprints, I guess you'd be a "smooth criminal."
Johnathan
My Fingerprinting Woes Continue
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Johnathan
Zardnaar
Legend
Aren't you a lawyer? You're already living it its just legal (ducks).
You've probably heard all the lawyer jokes already.
I would start on the American jokes but its been a rough year and I'm not that cruel.
About those Australians......
My all-time favorite:
Q: How many lawyer jokes are there?
A: Only one- all the rest are true stories.
Echohawk
Shirokinukatsukami fan
Are there any other family members with a similar problem? You might have mild adermatoglyphia or something similar. I had an acquaintance once who had that condition and it was a constant thorn in her side. She carried letters from multiple medical specialists with her whenever she had to do anything bureaucratic that might involve fingerprints, and tried to avoid traveling. And she too frequently mused about a missed opportunity of a life of crime, although in the real world (unlike some TV) fingerprints are rarely the sole reason a criminal gets caught, so adermatoglyphia probably isn't worth the hassle, even for a career criminal!
Zardnaar
Legend
Not bad.
Q.What do you call a nice kind sensitive man in New Zealand?
A. A tourist
Oh, I’m well aware of the rise of DNA, data tracking, etc. defeating the efforts of criminals who own gloves!
As for adermatoglyphia? Well, it’s possible I have a mild version of it or something similar. As mentioned, my hands ARE pretty dry. They rarely get sweaty, even when I exercise strenuously.
OTOH, I do have visible fingerprints.
My Mom has problems with touchscreens, too…but I think hers is more about her temper manifesting as a low frustration threshold.
Clearly (Too funny.
I've had the opposite experience. After getting my prints done, the gentleman let out a whistle then proceeded to gloat to all his colleges how clean mine came out.
Oh wells, guess I just have to keep being lawful.
) you’re my arch-nemesis now, “Mr. Clean”!
Clint_L
Legend
I'm still cheezed off by the one time I had to give my fingerprints, about a decade ago. Apparently someone with a similar birthdate and place of birth had committed some kind of crime, and as I am a teacher I had to go into the police station and have them fingerprint me to prove I wasn't a risk to be around students. Which in itself is fine...but I had to pay for it. That's the part that really annoyed me. Why was I, an innocent guy, having to pay them to do their jobs?
On the other hand, I guess I'm lucky I don't have silky skin like the OP, or maybe I'd have been in trouble!
On the other hand, I guess I'm lucky I don't have silky skin like the OP, or maybe I'd have been in trouble!
Mistaken identity in law enforcement is a scary thing. As I recall, it was 2 completely unrelated guys who got locked up at Leavenworth that led accelerated adoption of fingerprinting in the USA.
They had the same name, and looked enough like each other that people who knew them mixed them up. One was a career criminal who’d been in Leavenworth several times. The other was sentenced to that prison for (I think) his very first crime while the con wasn’t already in residence. And Leavenworth used a system of crude (by today’s standards) biometrics to ID inmates.
The newb was confused when they assigned him to “his usual” cell, and by the guards’ & inmates’ seeming familiarity with him that was 100% wrong. His protestations got him nowhere.
…and then the repeat offender got sent back to Leavenworth.
They had the same name, and looked enough like each other that people who knew them mixed them up. One was a career criminal who’d been in Leavenworth several times. The other was sentenced to that prison for (I think) his very first crime while the con wasn’t already in residence. And Leavenworth used a system of crude (by today’s standards) biometrics to ID inmates.
The newb was confused when they assigned him to “his usual” cell, and by the guards’ & inmates’ seeming familiarity with him that was 100% wrong. His protestations got him nowhere.
…and then the repeat offender got sent back to Leavenworth.
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