Miscellaneous

P-p-p-p-p-p-p-please, Eddie!

There's this scene, I think in Who Framed Roger Rabbit, where a can of yellow paint is hung from the back of a car bumper, with a hole punctured in its side. Thus, when the car eventually drives off, it leaves an easy-to-follow yellow trail behind it. (Am I totally wrong here? Was it some other movie?) Well in Sacramento, a car thief found the real-life version of this happen to him, thanks to an oil leak in the car they stole:

Two police officers found a stolen car abandoned in a Sacramento alley, still dripping from its engine. Officer Sang Koo Park of the Sacramento Police and his partner saw that the oil left a trail, so they followed it.

"This particular fluid trail was very discernable," said Officer Park. "It was fresh, it was uniform, you could have taken a highlighter and highlighted the trail back to his house. It was that noticeable."

Full post as published by Quiz Law on May 29, 2008 (boomark / email).