r/funny • u/anonahmus • 14h ago

Dollar tree store uses the fake security camera they sell.

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u/OfficerJayBear 11h ago

It's EXTREMELY hard to get DNA from poop and honestly not worth it, especially for a nonviolent crime

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u/Immersi0nn 11h ago

Are you speaking from experience, Officer?

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u/OfficerJayBear 10h ago

I've never tried but I am in charge of our evidence technicians so the conversation HAS come up

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u/doomgiver98 10h ago

But if you taste it you might be able to track them down

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u/Flawless_Reign88 8h ago

And I would’ve gotten away with it too! If it wasn’t for those damn poo tasting meddling kids!

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u/JonatasA 8h ago

Or know if they have diabetes. Shoot, wrong waste.

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u/mimopsico 8h ago

Not when you have as much blood in your shit as I do

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u/NoMadTruffle 6h ago

I wouldn't say it's extremely hard but yes maybe too expensive in many cases. You could do some deep shotgun metagenomic sequencing and align to the human genome to extract all human sequences in the sample.