Re: GA-CAT-CA

2000-09-12 Thread R. A. Hettinga
At 9:25 PM -0700 on 9/11/00, petro wrote: >>including subpoenas for, apparently now, Snowball's fur... >> > Funny you should mention Snowball... > > http://www.ornl.gov/hgmis/elsi/forensics.html Heh. That was my *point*, I think... :-). Cheers, RAH Who admits to listening to Nat

Re: GA-CAT-CA

2000-09-12 Thread petro
>At 9:25 PM -0700 9/11/00, petro wrote: >>RAH: But, again, I'm sure the thing was a spoof. >>> >>>Nope not a spoof. >>> >>>Heard it on NPR, and several other outlets the day it came out. >> >> I thought I remembered hearing about it as well, but I can't >>find anything on CNN's web si

Re: GA-CAT-CA

2000-09-11 Thread Tim May
At 9:25 PM -0700 9/11/00, petro wrote: >RAH: >>> But, again, I'm sure the thing was a spoof. >> >>Nope not a spoof. >> >>Heard it on NPR, and several other outlets the day it came out. > > I thought I remembered hearing about it as well, but I can't >find anything on CNN's web site, nor on

Re: GA-CAT-CA

2000-09-11 Thread R. A. Hettinga
> But, again, I'm sure the thing was a spoof. Nope not a spoof. Heard it on NPR, and several other outlets the day it came out. Remember, they use animal parts (bugs, plants, animal fur, whatever) in forensics all the time. The "request for fur" bit is probably a minor vamp of other requests f

Re: GA-CAT-CA

2000-09-09 Thread James A. Donald
-- At 09:20 AM 9/9/2000 -0700, A. Melon wrote: > Some of that cat hair winds up at crime scenes, and can provide > important clues to solving a crime if it can be traced to an > individual cat, and from there to its owner. The DOJ is asking cat > owners to voluntarily send in a sample