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CRIME SKELETON (lemmy.ml)
submitted 1 year ago by Facelikeapotato@lemmy.ml to c/memes@lemmy.ml
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[-] eco@lemm.ee 28 points 1 year ago
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[-] axolittl@lemmy.world 23 points 1 year ago

Acab includes the crime skeleton

[-] lco@kbin.social 10 points 1 year ago

No, crime skeleton was a good one. That's why it's no longer on the force.

[-] nothing@lemm.ee 20 points 1 year ago

What the hell has happened to policing?! They used to invent crime skeletons. And now? Nothing.

[-] SulaymanF@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago

Two things. People used to be insanely superstitious and many still are.

Second, nowadays almost everyone has seen an X-Ray but they were still rare for the public in 1930. People only saw bones in cemeteries so it was associated with death. (When Röntgen took one of the first X-ray pictures of his wife’s hand, it’s said she fainted as it was like seeing her own corpse.)

[-] boringbisexual@lib.lgbt 6 points 1 year ago

I'm not superstitious, but if I woke up in a dark room with a skeleton with glowing red eyes telling me to confess my sins...

Maybe add a fog machine and voice distortion.

[-] Hadriscus@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

Have the skeleton be rigged by Amalgamated Dynamics and I'll confess to every single thing

[-] albertsy2@lemm.ee 12 points 1 year ago

This should work

[-] JimmyDean@lemm.ee 10 points 1 year ago

I wonder if people actually fell for it or if it was too janky to fool them

[-] lco@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago

Iirc, it was never actually used

I saw a movie once where they made the guy think he had died and gone to hell so he would confess to the devil. Similar logic here, maybe?

[-] SulaymanF@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

Yes.

Before fingerprinting the police had tried ways to extract confessions out of people, including a documented practice of standing outside a perp’s window in the dark and calling out that they were the ghost of the victim and why did you kill me?

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