Junior Fingerprint Kit
When I was nine, I belonged to a science and technology Book-of-the-Month club, and thus obtained a Junior Fingerprint Kit. Shortly after, there was a hullabaloo next-door, a family of electricians, who suspected some of the local kids of shattering a large number of plastic fluorescent-light covers. I volunteered to ferret out the wrongdoers. Lo, and behold, amongst the plastic wreckage, I found a fingerprint, but since I had only just started gathering fingerprints of local kids, I had to first ask the target group for more fingerprints to assist the investigation.

Quite to my surprise, instead of offering his fingerprint, one of the five-year-olds cracked under pressure and confessed that he and a friend had broken the plastic fluorescent-light covers. He begged me not to tell, and promised improved access to his cousin's bicycle. Since there was only one bicycle in the immediate neighborhood at the time this was a valuable offer, but I knew that as one of the younger kids, he didn't have the clout to deliver. Still, it seemed unsporting to use anxiety and fear to extract confessions, so I ended the investigation, and left the crime officially unresolved.
(Perv With A Dog had his eyes pecked out by scrub jays on, Sat 5 Jul 2014, 18:40, 1 reply)

Too young for a dirty raincoat probably.

( edjogs Collared doves are shit., Sat 5 Jul 2014, 19:42, closed)