Sensible Erection | Sketchy Characters

Friday, 30 July 2010

quote [ How accurate are composite sketches that police use to try to catch suspects?
Everyone's seen police sketches—at the post office, or in the newspaper. But how many criminals actually get caught because of the sketches? It's no small feat for a police artist to draw a realistic portrait of an alleged criminal based only on the oral description of a witness. How accurate are the drawings? ]

When somebody's pointing a gun at you, I think the biggest memory is going to be the gun!

Karma: Child killer killed in prison
http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/story?section=news/local/north_bay&id=7576437

[by JOECAM@2:06amGMT] [+5 Good]

Comments

Baron said @ 2:21am GMT on 30th Jul
The Unabomber did it the wrong way. First you have the long bushy beard, then you commit the crime, THEN you shave and get a new wardrobe

You just act stupid and are liable to be caught faster doing it his way.

Ankylosaur said @ 2:30am GMT on 30th Jul
Fake tattoos while committing the crime are the way to go.

DirtyBirdy said @ 2:36am GMT on 30th Jul [Score:1 Insightful]
psssh, just wear lemon juice and you're uncatchable

Todomanna said @ 2:44am GMT on 30th Jul
Tape a live mongoose to your face (rabid side out, of course) and no one will ever be the wiser.

sacrelicious said @ 2:51am GMT on 30th Jul
a biochemist friend of mine was telling me that animal rights protesters sometimes protest outside her lab, and that they've been know to throw rocks and threaten violence for their killing of mice (in trying to cure MOTHERFUCKING MALARIA). I suggested that she could effectively shield herself from potential attacks if she wore mink to work. LIVE mink, that is.

Todomanna said @ 2:57am GMT on 30th Jul
Are you baiting me, sir? I apologize if not, but your bringing up of a topic that I think (I sometimes mix up the people with nicks that start with s) we have argued about in the past in a somewhat accusatory manner leads me to suspect such things. I admit I'm probably just paranoid, but I thought I'd ask.

f00m@nB@r said @ 2:58am GMT on 30th Jul
he's masturbaiting you.

swiggy said @ 5:45am GMT on 30th Jul
You still have to jack off a dead mouse?

sacrelicious said @ 3:13am GMT on 30th Jul
I'm not baiting you.

unless of course you like to protest outside of labs that are trying to cure malaria. if that's the case then I am baiting the shit out of you.

Todomanna said @ 3:53am GMT on 30th Jul
Can I learn how to protest outside labs trying to cure malaria, or is it something instinctual?

incpenners said @ 2:59am GMT on 30th Jul [Score:1 Insightful]
When I was a kid my cousins lived in a semi-rural area; nearby was a mink farm.

At some point some 'protesters' broke into the farm and freed all of the mink from their cages. Many of them died from the stress, many died from starvation and disease within a couple of weeks, but a few went feral and live in the area.

They've become something of a menace, killing birds, cats, dogs, chickens and the like. Not a good situation.

tickaz said @ 6:57am GMT on 30th Jul
They've become something of a menace, killing birds, cats, dogs, chickens and the like. Not a good situation.

This just goes to show the lack of foresight these "protesters" have. Of course they are going to kill the native wildlife, nature works because some animals kill other animals

symmetrian said @ 5:58pm GMT on 30th Jul
I want to see protesters protesting nature.

I love that people think cruelty is a distinctly human trait. It isn't. Watch a cat play with a moth for proof.

robotroadkill said @ 10:40am GMT on 30th Jul
The best is when they actually break in and release the animals who all promptly die in the streets and around town, being unable to care for themselves. Then the lab has to get a whole new batch of animals.

Chop-Logik said @ 4:47pm GMT on 30th Jul
Yes. That is 'the best'.

robotroadkill said @ 11:10pm GMT on 30th Jul
By "the best," of course, I mean "The most ironic outcome possible."

jamesdiemer said @ 4:52pm GMT on 30th Jul

insanemonkey said @ 12:53pm GMT on 1st Aug
Just shake your head from side to side real fast and cameras won't catch you - you'll just be a blur.

sacrelicious said @ 2:51am GMT on 30th Jul
I've always heard that a really loud tie does nicely.

oddzer said @ 2:30am GMT on 30th Jul
+1 Thumb

assbastard said @ 3:58am GMT on 30th Jul
Thumb is Marc Brown from KABC-7 Los Angeles, my local news station of choice. Dude still works there today, and that screencap was taken probably 5-7 years ago

Bodnoirbabe said @ 5:20am GMT on 30th Jul
What's up SoCal buddy! Yeah, out of all the news I like him best.

assbastard said @ 6:02am GMT on 30th Jul
You're 909, I'm 949. IT"S LIKE WE'RE FAMILY!

Todomanna said @ 2:52am GMT on 30th Jul
The last one is a sketch of a completely different person than the picture, according to their caption. I don't see how this is an example of anything at all.

Todomanna said @ 2:58am GMT on 30th Jul
Ah, nevermind, I misread the caption.

JOECAM said @ 3:26am GMT on 30th Jul

sanepride said @ 3:39am GMT on 30th Jul
What surprised me was how many of the sketches actually did bear some resemblance to the actual suspect. Some were really pretty accurate.

Roulette1337 said @ 3:43am GMT on 30th Jul
I figure the sketches might be at least usefull for canvassing the area a short time after the crime for witnesses

loomspace said @ 4:58am GMT on 30th Jul [Score:2 WTF]
An ex-gf of mine was attacked in her home, the sketch was published in the paper, and we (myself and a co-worker) caught the guy later that week after overwhelming public identification of the guy. The shitbag was literally painting kids' faces at a street festival at the time we were tipped off to his whereabouts.

The ex-gf was quite artistic and eloquent and did her own sketch. She also sort of kicked the shit out of the guy when he attacked her. Awesome woman, and the dude went away for quite awhile.

Horrible experience nonetheless.

Sarahbear said @ 3:18am GMT on 16th Sep
underrated for women kicking the shit out of attackers.

DonegalSimon said @ 10:58am GMT on 30th Jul [Score:1 Insightful]
No.10 looks like Geoffrey the butler from Fresh Prince and No.11 looks like Lou Reed.

cb361 said @ 3:18pm GMT on 30th Jul
Great. Those two won't be able to hurt anybody else once they're safely behind bars. Police sketches do work.

cb361 said @ 10:06pm GMT on 30th Jul
Intended as a reply to http://sensibleerection.com/comment.php/81223/1824040