Watch out, supervils!

[dvandom]

UC Davis gets grant to develop a solid forensics basis for comparison of duct tape tears. The idea being that a tear in duct tape (used, say, to bind up a hapless superchica) is as identifiable as fingerprints or ballistics markings. So better start using scissors....

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[jarodrussell.livejournal.com]

"Are you sure you have to tape me up?"

"It's for science."

"I don't know..."

"Trust me, I'm a Doctor."

[grant-p.livejournal.com]

This is just why I throw my victims into giant spiderwebs...

[z-gryphon.livejournal.com]

Nothing they're talking about there is actually a particularly new forensic principle; it sounds like all the grant is really aimed at is firming up the statistical rationalizations behind what's already known - which is all to the good and represents, I suspect, part of the forensic field's ongoing CYA efforts following the recent revelation that comparative bullet lead analysis (as performed by the FBI crime lab, among others) had been statistically suspect all along.

[buckeyebrain.livejournal.com]

Silence is Golden.
Duct Tape is Silver.