{"id":4406,"date":"2008-12-23T00:06:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-22T18:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.indiauncut.com\/?p=3169"},"modified":"2008-12-23T00:06:00","modified_gmt":"2008-12-22T18:36:00","slug":"the-mosquito-and-the-dna-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indiauncut.com\/the-mosquito-and-the-dna-test\/","title":{"rendered":"The Mosquito And The DNA Test"},"content":{"rendered":"

If the immensely thorough Martin Beck<\/a> was still active today, I imagine he might well have been involved in cases like this one<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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Police in Finland believe they have caught a car thief from a DNA sample taken from a mosquito they noticed inside an abandoned vehicle.<\/p>\n

Finding the car in Seinaejoki, north of Helsinki, police saw that the mosquito had recently sucked blood and decided to send the insect for analysis.<\/p>\n

The DNA found from laboratory tests matched a man on the police register.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

They arrested the guy, who claimed that he was “just hitch-hiking a lift with a man.” Right.<\/p>\n

If I was writing a book of fiction involving a case like this, I wouldn’t make it so easy. In my book, the cops would find the mosquito, do the DNA test, match it with a former criminal on their database—and then find that he died five years ago. So how did the mosquito drink his blood? That would be a nice mystery to solve.<\/p>\n

Hell, too many ideas, too little time. And there’s also this blog to maintain…<\/p>\n

(Link via email from Anand<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If the immensely thorough Martin Beck<\/a> was still active today, I imagine he might well have been involved in cases like this one<\/a>:<\/p>\n

\n

Police in Finland believe they have caught a car thief from a DNA sample taken from a mosquito they noticed inside an abandoned vehicle.<\/p>\n

Finding the car in Seinaejoki, north of Helsinki, police saw that the mosquito had recently sucked blood and decided to send the insect for analysis.<\/p>\n

The DNA found from laboratory tests matched a man on the police register.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

They arrested the guy, who claimed that he was “just hitch-hiking a lift with a man.” Right.<\/p>\n

If I was writing a book of fiction involving a case like this, I wouldn’t make it so easy. In my book, the cops would find the mosquito, do the DNA test, match it with a former criminal on their database—and then find that he died five years ago. So how did the mosquito drink his blood? That would be a nice mystery to solve.<\/p>\n

Hell, too many ideas, too little time. And there’s also this blog to maintain…<\/p>\n

(Link via email from Anand<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,15,13,23],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\nThe Mosquito And The DNA Test - India Uncut<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/indiauncut.com\/the-mosquito-and-the-dna-test\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Mosquito And The DNA Test - India Uncut\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"If the immensely thorough Martin Beck was still active today, I imagine he might well have been involved in cases like this one: Police in Finland believe they have caught a car thief from a DNA sample taken from a mosquito they noticed inside an abandoned vehicle. 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