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Surely you recognize that all you need to do is to rub it on some concrete for a couple of minutes to completely destroy it right? Not to mention if you owned a

Surely you recognize that all you need to do is to rub it on some concrete for a couple of minutes to completely destroy it right? Not to mention if you owned a pair of scissors or a lighter or something…

JumpCrisscross 2y ago
> you recognize that all you need to do is to rub it on some concrete for a couple of minutes to completely destroy it right You're going to take time away from your actual escape to make yourself less incriminating in case you are caught? Should he have been grinding up IDs at the Greyhound bus terminal in New York? Right after the whole city heard about the shooting? Or should he have waited until after the FBI plastered the nation with his face? > if you owned a pair of scissors or a lighter or something Scissors won't take care of fingerprints, let alone DNA. As for the lighter, again, where do you propose he do this without attracting attention? Actually, I could see him having thought this would be easy to do, maybe even packing a lighter and scissors, only to realise in execution that you can't start burning IDs on a bus without someone noticing.
- someotherperson 2y ago
  Respectfully, none of what you’re describing is real life. Police don’t go around fingerprinting random pieces of plastic. You can just deface it in any way and throw it out the window on a highway or into any trash can and it will quite literally never be found.
  - JumpCrisscross 2y ago
    > Police don’t go around fingerprinting random pieces of plastic No. But you don't know how far behind they are when you dispose of it. It only becomes random plastic after they've lost your trail. > can just deface it in any way and throw it out the window on a highway or into any trash can Sure. Or you can keep it until it can be safely disposed of. Which carries fewer risks? We don't even have to hypothesise, we know for a fact that the IDs on his person didn't cause him to get caught. We also know him not having the IDs on him wouldn't have caused him to be less caught.
- hawski 2y ago
  I would think that getting rid of the evidence is the integral part of planning a crime. Otherwise it is sloppiness. There is a lot of ways to do such things I am sure, but you have to thought it through before. He didn't or the adrenaline was too much for him.
- brokenmachine 2y ago
  He had four days to come up with a way to get rid of a few pieces of plastic. Now I'm not a valedictorian, but I'd like to think I could achieve that.

JumpCrisscross 2y ago

> you recognize that all you need to do is to rub it on some concrete for a couple of minutes to completely destroy it right You're going to take time away from your actual escape to make yourself less incriminating in case you are caught? Should he have been grinding up IDs at the Greyhound bus terminal in New York? Right after the whole city heard about the shooting? Or should he have waited until after the FBI plastered the nation with his face? > if you owned a pair of scissors or a lighter or something Scissors won't take care of fingerprints, let alone DNA. As for the lighter, again, where do you propose he do this without attracting attention? Actually, I could see him having thought this would be easy to do, maybe even packing a lighter and scissors, only to realise in execution that you can't start burning IDs on a bus without someone noticing.

someotherperson 2y ago
Respectfully, none of what you’re describing is real life. Police don’t go around fingerprinting random pieces of plastic. You can just deface it in any way and throw it out the window on a highway or into any trash can and it will quite literally never be found.
- JumpCrisscross 2y ago
  > Police don’t go around fingerprinting random pieces of plastic No. But you don't know how far behind they are when you dispose of it. It only becomes random plastic after they've lost your trail. > can just deface it in any way and throw it out the window on a highway or into any trash can Sure. Or you can keep it until it can be safely disposed of. Which carries fewer risks? We don't even have to hypothesise, we know for a fact that the IDs on his person didn't cause him to get caught. We also know him not having the IDs on him wouldn't have caused him to be less caught.
hawski 2y ago
I would think that getting rid of the evidence is the integral part of planning a crime. Otherwise it is sloppiness. There is a lot of ways to do such things I am sure, but you have to thought it through before. He didn't or the adrenaline was too much for him.
brokenmachine 2y ago
He had four days to come up with a way to get rid of a few pieces of plastic. Now I'm not a valedictorian, but I'd like to think I could achieve that.