Cheeto dust leads to arrest of burglary suspect

[pesco]

Originally published at: Cheeto dust leads to arrest of burglary suspect | Boing Boing

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[mr_raccoon]

Funny Commercial - Cheetos - Black Light

[euansmith]

Caught Orange-handed?

[Papasan]

[Dexterious]

Say it wasn’t you?

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[HappyHead]

The guy who broke into my apartment a few years ago was almost caught through a similar method, since he dropped and smashed his bottle of Jack Daniels inside the window he’d broken in through, and left finger prints (and a bit of blood from where he cut his hand) all over it.
It wasn’t necessary though, since he also posed quite well directly in front of my HD security camera, in the best possible lighting, and the B&E people at the police station just looked at the picture and said “Oh, it’s Neil. Again.”

[joelfinkle]

The technical term for Cheeto Dust is “cheetle”

[ikeOnABike]

[capnjimbo]

This is very similar to how the Thompson twins (not the new wave trio. Nor the Tintin detectives) were caught by Encyclopedia Brown in “The Case of the Blueberry Pies”.