[Lava Lamp Freak]

I'm thinking about taking a two year Crime Scene Investigation program at my local community college. It sounds like interesting work and I've been interested in it for several years. Anyone here have any experience in the field or ever looked into it?

[Gossamer]

Hopefully it's just like the TV show: full of mood lighting, hot women, and you get to drive a Hummer.

[Lava Lamp Freak]

Originally Posted by Gossamer

Hopefully it's just like the TV show: full of mood lighting, hot women, and you get to drive a Hummer.

Thats what I suspected.

[natural1]

Hopefully it's just like the TV show: full of mood lighting, hot women, and you get to drive a Hummer.

Hot women and Hummers?! Where do I sign up?!

[natnabour]

i think the tv show glamourizes REAL crime scene investigators. i wouldn't be able to walk into a room with a body of a dead/raped girl and have to examine her/evidence.

[OreoCookie]

… and the way they have databases for everything

Wanna know what building as a 5m by 2m hurricane proof window, ah, that's easy.
Criminals tend to have busted tail lights, too, with nano-imprinted codes just a few micrometers in size, unique to the make and model of a car (or a specific car, if it needs to). Criminals also tend to show up in some obscure database (the good old drunken and disorderly, for instance).
Colleagues usually enter the room when the printer just spits out the results of the test they had you run.
Give us any blurry picture of your car from a broken bw security 100 m away and we can still read single letters off your parking pass.

BTW I like CSI (the original)

[Rev-O]

Tangentally related at best:
Last time I was in an evidence room, I saw a fish tank. Gravel, plastic plants, filter. No water. No fish. I asked the CSI gal in the evidence room if the fish was murdered and if they were preserving the crime scene. I got a withering stare. So I asked if they recovered the body, and suggested that if they had not, I suspect the body had most likely been flushed. This was met with another withering stare. I then proceeded to tell the guys working for me not to ask about the fish tank, because it is a sensitive matter, still under investigation. At this the CSI gal actually chuckled and shook her head and called me a fscking weirdo. I found it fairly amusing

[macroy]

I think in general, most "occupations" are glam'd up on TV/Movies. And especially those in the Police/Lawyer/Investigation areas. I've only seen crime scene photos (had the opportunity sit through a few Policy academy sessions), and I just cannot imagine being there for real. The mess, the stinch, and the maggots...which is rarely shown on TV. They're everywhere... supposedly.

I also hear the best are the "floaters"..... especially when it comes to smells.... you think that dead fish by the docks smelled bad.

[DeathToWindows]

Yeah, putricine will put a dent in your appetite.

[iranfromthezoo]

come ride on the fire dept with me for a while...it will make you know for a fact if you want to be CSI or not...considering we are the garbage man of the scene...and sometimes its so smelly/contaminated we have to go in with our hazmat crap on....CSI is the most fake show out there...heck the show cops is incredibly fake...

but we need good people who are willing to wade through the crap for little pay!

[Gossamer]

They did have a CSI episode about a floater...the guy died in his running bathtub and bloated for a week or two, until it got to the point where it was raining down a human remains/water mixture in the apartment below...that looked pretty gross.