wait wait wait
How did the forensics team know that the burglar was allergic to bees? Because, you know, they don't look at the DNA deeply enough to find that sort of information.

This story is even more bullshitty than your usual offerings.
(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Sat 9 Nov 2013, 11:05, 2 replies)

You clearly don't know any coppers Plummy.
That's probably a good thing I think.
The the forensics lady noticed we had a bee hive. She asked me about it and took a sample of the honey/wax.
She then (I guess) cross checked with local hospitals for people who had had allergic reactions from bee stings (amazing the thinking power of some of our uni-educated forensic police officers!). & found someone who fitted the bill! Beyond that I'm just guessing but I imagine after they had a match with our bee's DNA and the bee's DNA they would've been able to get from the guy's sting - it would've been like shooting wasps in a paper nest.
Bees have unique DNA to each hive and each queen. Ask an apiarist.
(s0ckpuppet logging out to reply to you if you're not careful, Sat 9 Nov 2013, 11:18, closed)

All that would prove is that he'd been within a couple of miles of your hive. It wouldn't prove he'd burgled your house.

Also, why would entering your garden cause him to be stung by a bee? I'm assuming that you did this on a regular basis without being stung.
(cs1ca, Sun 10 Nov 2013, 18:50, closed)

because it's a made up story with no basis whatsoever in anything approaching real life
Oh yer, Fairholme here gazzed me to let me know that it was indeed me looking stupid here, not the weepy dugong with the overactive imagination.

I think he got that one wrong.
(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Sun 10 Nov 2013, 20:20, closed)

If they'd identified the perp from fingerprints and picked him up at the hospital, where he'd been treated for an allergic reaction to one of his victim's bees, it would be entirely plausible. It would also be the kind of story that would be lazily and inaccurately reported in the local paper, and bogusly reproduced on the internet.
(cs1ca, Mon 11 Nov 2013, 10:37, closed)

http://b3ta.com/questions/theft/post2143011
(s0ckpuppet logging out to reply to you if you're not careful, Mon 11 Nov 2013, 14:42, closed)

I agree. An almost completely different story with a few similar details would be much more believable, and much less made up.
(cs1ca, Mon 11 Nov 2013, 16:49, closed)

( drimble he'd been white, he'd been black, Sat 9 Nov 2013, 12:17, closed)

You appear to have put a lot of time and effort
into that.

Top job!
(s0ckpuppet logging out to reply to you if you're not careful, Sat 9 Nov 2013, 12:54, closed)

Any other pictures you could direct me to? Only, you know, it'd be nice to replace the other three as well

( drimble he'd been white, he'd been black, Sat 9 Nov 2013, 12:56, closed)

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dugong

(comedy bully grrrr, Mon 11 Nov 2013, 9:42, closed)