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The trope of chalk outlines around bodies was never a real thing that cops did.
It was invented by Hollywood in the 50s to suggest the presence of a corpse or murder without showing a corpse onscreen, which would have caused the show to be classified out of its desired classification or be censored.
Cops never did that because it would contaminate the scene and wasn't actually useful to them
I'd take more of this over family guy any day. Man the popular demand has bad taste.
comedy is not zero sum, you can have two things.
Budgets exist, we can't shoot every show. So yeah.. its not a zero sum game but its got a ceiling and it's not that high. Especially when nowadays even reality TV trash like Mr Beast Games has a budget of $100 million.
but they literally just released a new Naked Gun movie, and you have Wayan Bros, Sacha Baron Cohen, Chris Morris, Jordan Peele, Armando Iannuci, Parker/Stone, Rogen/Franco, Ben Stiller, Edgar Wright, Steve Coogan, Charlie Brooker... as modern satirists with strong visual styles that play on genre as a medium.
people painting lines on football fields may have a word
Those are just large fields of murdered line people. Tragic we play games on those crime scenes.
*pours Gatorade out for the fallen victims*
Dude doesn't have a chalk roller? He's pretty shit at his job if he doesn't know how to use chalk on grass like a sports arena would.
Bucket of white paint .... just throw a few gallons over the body .... instant outline
That's so stupid. Just gently tip a bucket around the edges of the body, you'll waste a lot less paint.
I'm not gonna lie, if I had to get this done and had limited options available (e.g I just have the bucket of paint), I'd give that method the old college try. Depending how desperate I am, I might just splash the paint around a bit with my fingers as I pour it.
I'm a Doctor not a Stadium Employee!
I just really like that the wife shows concern for him. Idk... it's a small detail but at least someone cares...
Spray Chalk; it's a thing.
I wonder if they do use that, the aerosol would spray stuff around potentially contaminating other evidence.
So would chalk dust. Are we sure this isn’t just a movie thing?
Chalk dust would just settle, any hair or dirt or otherwise from the aerosol could be moved pretty far away.
Also, dustless chalk is thing as well…
So is chalkless dust
I'd expect that with the zillions of crime scene photographs taken, the need to use chalk to outline the body is lessened, and simultaneously, with more advanced forensic techniques, the danger that chalk would contaminate evidence is increased.
In modern crime dramas, I don't recall seeing chalk outlines around bodies, but around other evidence like bullet casings, presumably because they might roll somewhere. If that's true, then they'd still bring chalk along.
I think they tend to place a device for scale, then take multiple photos. That answers most questions, and they can recreate the scene/positions from those photos and videos.
I imagine some places are even doing 3D photogrammetric scans - digital scans of crime scenes that are automatically receated in a 3D model with accurate textures. This technology is after all already being used by game developers and other industries.
Good point!
Fun fact: it's not chalk (at least in Spain). I had to clean these marks, not from a corpse (the guy didn't died) but from the blood splashes and bullet holes, and I had to use solvent to take them out, the industrial cleaning products did nothing.
Simple and fun. Good job.