What color is your orange jump suit going to be?
Interestingly, despite CSI et al. being bigger loads of hooey than MJ’s innocence, there really is a National Automotive Paint File. On CourtTV.com you can color yourself interested in all sorts of “trace” evidence, including how to get busted by your bitchin’ Hemi Cuda’s plume crazy purple paint job:
[Paint c]hips from cars can be compared to samples in the National Automotive Paint File, which holds more than 40,0000 samples. Undercoats help to narrow down the possible manufacturers. . . . A trace of yellow paint was found in a spot where a rapist had hidden his car was traced to a specific model. When a suspect was located through a computer database that included those cars, his vehicle showed the scrape at the appropriate height. With the police on his trail and evidence accumulating, he confessed and was sent to prison.
[Paint c]hips from cars can be compared to samples in the National Automotive Paint File, which holds more than 40,0000 samples. Undercoats help to narrow down the possible manufacturers. . . . A trace of yellow paint was found in a spot where a rapist had hidden his car was traced to a specific model. When a suspect was located through a computer database that included those cars, his vehicle showed the scrape at the appropriate height. With the police on his trail and evidence accumulating, he confessed and was sent to prison.
posted by kiddigit at 1:45 PM
