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Re: What's the point of wearing rubber gloves...
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Wed, 28 Jul 2004 17:05:38 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, David Laswell wrote:
> ...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?!?!?
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 hate" item on my LUGNET profile). Especially bothersome to me is when a food
service worker has trouble opening his mylar glove, so he puts the wrist-end to
his mouth and blows in it to inflate it. I mean, why not just urinate on my
sandwich, while you're at it?
Don't get me wrong--I have great respect for people stuck in the food service
industry (having spent too many years there, myself), but this particular
behavior drives me to fury.
Thanks for listening...
Dave!
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Message has 2 Replies:
 | | Re: What's the point of wearing rubber gloves...
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| (...) It's also funny (maybe not) when sandwich-makers used their gloved hand to take your money and return change, then return to sandwich production. I hate to think what lurks on paper money passed from hand to hand, though in Australia we have (...) (20 years ago, 28-Jul-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
| | | Re: What's the point of wearing rubber gloves...
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| (...) Dude, you guys are creeping me out. Are you all serious? Man, I'd much, much prefer to have a human touching my food than some rubber-gloved freak. I've held off on posting until now because I can't find my words. This isn't about germs and (...) (20 years ago, 29-Jul-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | What's the point of wearing rubber gloves...
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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 (...) (20 years ago, 28-Jul-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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