• @axolittl
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    251 year ago

    Acab includes the crime skeleton

    • lco
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      101 year ago

      No, crime skeleton was a good one. That’s why it’s no longer on the force.

    • @SulaymanF
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      201 year ago

      Two things. People used to be insanely superstitious and many still are.

      Second, nowadays almost everyone has seen an X-Ray but they were still rare for the public in 1930. People only saw bones in cemeteries so it was associated with death. (When Röntgen took one of the first X-ray pictures of his wife’s hand, it’s said she fainted as it was like seeing her own corpse.)

      • @[email protected]
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        61 year ago

        I’m not superstitious, but if I woke up in a dark room with a skeleton with glowing red eyes telling me to confess my sins…

        Maybe add a fog machine and voice distortion.

  • Jim
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    101 year ago

    I wonder if people actually fell for it or if it was too janky to fool them

  • @[email protected]
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    41 year ago

    I saw a movie once where they made the guy think he had died and gone to hell so he would confess to the devil. Similar logic here, maybe?

    • @SulaymanF
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      61 year ago

      Yes.

      Before fingerprinting the police had tried ways to extract confessions out of people, including a documented practice of standing outside a perp’s window in the dark and calling out that they were the ghost of the victim and why did you kill me?