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What's the point of wearing rubber gloves...
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Wed, 28 Jul 2004 02:24:35 GMT
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...when you've touched them all over on the outside? I'm watching NYPD 24/7
right now, and they just showed a homicide detective testing a smear on a wall
to see if it's blood. Before doing this, he puts on his rubber gloves. Okay,
that sounds sensible. But the fingers are sticking shut, and he's having
trouble putting them on, so they show footage of him trying to pull each finger
on individually, then blowing a glove up and tugging the fingers (with his
non-gloved fingers) to get them to inflate so he can stick his hand inside.
Now, I'm not a forensic scientist, but it seems to be that the point of putting
on the gloves in the first place is to make sure you don't contaminate the
evidence with your fingerprints/DNA. And how exactly is that supposed to work
when they're covered on the outside with your fingerprints and DNA?!?!?
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Message has 3 Replies:
 | | Re: What's the point of wearing rubber gloves...
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| (...) Holey moley, did you just hit a hot-button for me! I'm not fluid-o-phobic, but in most circumstances don't care to have other people's DNA deposited on me or my food or my purchases without my express permission (I even mention this as an "I (...) (20 years ago, 28-Jul-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
| | | Re: What's the point of wearing rubber gloves...
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| (...) There certainly IS such a point, sometimes... The gloves are there to protect you from what you are about to touch rather than to protect what you are about to touch from you. That's not the case in this particular example, I suspect, and I (...) (20 years ago, 29-Jul-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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