Email the police to ask them a question about something you saw in a movie ?

[GMACK24]

A friend of mine wants to email a police department to ask them a question.

He saw a movie last night.
The guy killed someone. He washed the walls with Amonia.
The police could not positivly identify the DNA from the blood.

He wants to know if this is true or false.
I asked him "Why do you want to know this" he said he is just curious and wants to ask the source.

I told him to look it up on the internet.
He told me "No I want to ask the police via EMAIL"

What do you think he should do ?
Again I told him to look it up on the internet and he got all pissed and told me he was going to email the Boston Police and ask them the question above ?
What are your thoughts on this ?

[Kimble]

A friend of mine wants to email a police department to ask them a question.

He saw a movie last night.
The guy killed someone. He washed the walls with Amonia.
The police could not positivly identify the DNA from the blood.

He wants to know if this is true or false.
I asked him "Why do you want to know this" he said he is just curious and wants to ask the source.

I told him to look it up on the internet.
He told me "No I want to ask the police via EMAIL"

What do you think he should do ?
Again I told him to look it up on the internet and he got all pissed and told me he was going to email the Boston Police and ask them the question above ?
What are your thoughts on this ?

In the movie Ghostbusters, a demon transforms the thoughts of one guy into a giant marshmellow man. Does your friend believe that can happen as well? Tell your friend not to believe everything he sees in a movie, as Hollywood doesn't have requirements to ensure everything they put out is accurate.

[Kimble]

To answer your friend's question:

"Denaturing agents such as urea and formamide (HCONH2) are called chaotropic
agents because they tend to disrupt water's ability to solvate DNA's
negatively charged phosphate groups. The negative charges, then, repel each
other more strongly and induce a "rodlike" conformation of the DNA.
(the C2' endo configuration of the ribose ring is even more exaggerated and
the phospates are even further apart)

In order to oppose this destabilizing affect, I would suggest increasing the
ionic strength of the solvent (salt), so that positively charged monovalent
ions can quench the negative charges."

Source: Elena Rodriguez, Grad student, Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley (and it took all of 5 seconds on google.com to get this answer)

[Group9]

Ros beat me to it. That was exactly what I was about to say.

[GMACK24]

WOW
what an ***.
Here is our conversation over IM. I am BEN he is Charlie to protect him.

Ben Charlie did you get my email ?
Ben did you get it ?
Charlie Yeah, well forgive me if I'm not inclined to value these guys opinion all to highly.
Ben did u read the whole thing ?
Charlie I did
Ben and you are still going to waste the police's time ?
Charlie Listen ****, if it's something I want to know it's not a waste of time now is it.
Charlie I don't really care what your group of wannabe cop friends think to be honest
Ben Even after reading the whole thing ? you are still going to do it.. hey thats fine ace....... good luck.. please forward your response to me. thanks.
Ben Again as I said before these guys are all certified Law enforcement officers.
Charlie Your worried about me wasting the polices time by e-mailing them my question, we apparently several of your "cop" friends had plently of time to answer yours so why not answer mine.
Ben because they are probably off the clock at home or on their breaks replying to the message board.
Charlie and you know these are all certified Law enforcement officers how exactly??
Ben it says it next their names.
Charlie Oh, and that means a lot huh??
Ben hey if you dont believe me thats fine
Charlie Your so guliable it's retarded
Charlie I'm done with this
Ben I just think you are wasting a police officers time when you can research plenty of law enforcement information online. or hey why not go to a library ****
Ben If you have no faith in the internet. if you are so smart go to a library. there are a TON of legal books .... try there first ! !
Charlie Nope, I'll just write the cops
Charlie Why should I do all that work when I can just call or write.
Charlie Talk about wasting time, the cops will either say, "yes that is true, No it's not true, or we aren't telling you that.
Charlie No harm, no foul
Ben Again you are gonna waste their time........ they have better things to do like keep the streets safe but if you feel that you are more important than public safety than go right ahead ace.
Charlie Right, the guy answering the phone or reading the mail is keeping the streets safe, think about what your saying
Ben yes its not his job to answer your stupid question about something you saw on tv
Charlie Actually, yes it's his job to answer questions from the community
Charlie stupid or not
Ben Ok fine. you win again. let me know what they say okay ?
Ben Talk to you later
Charlie Later

[Wombat311]

I actually think both of you are spending way too much time on this, but hey, it's your time to waste.

If he wants to e-mail his local dept. let him. Just don't surprised if he doesn't receive a reply he wants to hear.

Charlie Actually, yes it's his job to answer questions from the community

Perhaps, but if he wants to know how to cover up a crime scene, I'm not going to tell him. That's not one of the questions I'm paid to answer. He'd have more luck googling it like ROS and Group9.

[Joeyd6]

The only difference bewteen me and the Boston Officer who gets that e-mail is:
I wasted five minutes reading and 2 minutes posting this reposnse, and he will have spent 1 minute reading and 1 second hitting the delete button.

[txinvestigator1]

Why would you waste time having a friend like that? One coversation with him with his attitude, and he would never hear from me again.

[Kimble]

Ben If you have no faith in the internet. if you are so smart go to a library. there are a TON of legal books .... try there first ! !
Charlie Nope, I'll just write the cops
Charlie Why should I do all that work when I can just call or write.
Charlie Talk about wasting time, the cops will either say, "yes that is true, No it's not true, or we aren't telling you that.
Charlie No harm, no foul

What a tool :rolleyes: . Ben, why are you friends with him? Not that it's any of my business, as my question was more of a rhetorical one, but I'd be damned if I'd associate with someone who would disrespect me like that without being obviously sarcastic.

[GMACK24]

Yeah so I see his name on IM for 3 hours now. I am not going to say a word to him today.

screw him. Let him email them. I can't wait for their reply ! ! !