Part 0800.0005

[AJuff]

DD says can you not fingerprint the tin to find the culprit?

[bluekarin]

DD says can you not fingerprint the tin to find the culprit?

 

Now that's a good idea! I wonder if those kids spy kits work?

[theherd123]

How about a homemade kit?

 

Not too sure if this would work but flour and a pastry brush might just do it.

 

Line up the suspects!

[AJuff]

I musy admit we are all holding our breath here to find out the outcome.

[Mrs Webmuppet]

The powder needs to be finer than flour how about face powder or bicarbonate of soda ......the stuff the professionals use is aluminium powder.

[The Dogmother]

Were there biscuit crumbs in anyone's bed?

[majorbloodnock]

Regarding fingerprints, this is a biscuit tin we're talking about; everyone's pinkies will have been all over it.

 

Regarding biscuit crumbs in beds, this is kids we're talking about; the crumbs could easily have been there for a week already (unless these are magical children who don't rely on someone else to change the bedding for them).

[Alis girls]

I think get CSI on the job, they can look for biscuit crumb residue on the fingers, mouth and spray the bed with some dye to look for crumbs. Finger print them all and run thro their compter - hey presto they may already have form - for biscuit scrumping

[AJuff]

DD says can you check their sent messgaes on their phone or their facebook account . . she reckons there may be clues there . . . .

[Lewis]

Could you bake some biccies with some kind of food dye in that will stain the culprit's mouth and fingers?

 

That reminds me of a classroom incident many years ago when someone stole the dentist's disclosing tablets thinking they were sweets!!!!!! It wasn't difficult to see who had been the culprit even though they denied it. The funniest part was trying to keep a straight face!!!

I was just about to say put disclosing tablets inside the hollow biscuits!

 

My aunt is a dental nurse + we always used to have to use them to see who could brush their teeth the best - always at the weekend, otherwise you'd have pink lips for school the next morning

[bluekarin]

Well, I almost thought I was going to get a confession tonight, but all I got was YD admitting to taking the biscuit tin up to her room "accidently"

 

ED and DS have FB and mobile phones, but there is nothing in their messages. YD is too young for it all (well technically, DS and ED are too but nevermind) so I can't really use that route.

 

The pressure is hotting up, especially since some lovely caramel wafer biscuits accidently dropped into my trolley at Lidls today oops (the ones you can put on top of a cup of coffee or tea and the caramel melts )

[majorbloodnock]

DD says can you check their sent messgaes on their phone or their facebook account . . she reckons there may be clues there . . . .

 

Now might be a good time to introduce the Universal Declaration of Human Rights to her; especially the bit about privacy .

[..lay a little egg for me]

Well, I almost thought I was going to get a confession tonight, but all I got was YD admitting to taking the biscuit tin up to her room "accidently"

 

...and accidentally eating all the biscuits perhaps? It's amazing how that can happen...I often find I have accidentally finished off the biscuit packet when I was not paying attention

[Cooks]

I have had a few accidents in my time too

[The Dogmother]

I have had a few accidents in my time too

 

 

Noooooo! Surely not?

[Cooks]

oi!! eating biscuits I meant! but actually I guess you were probably right the first time.

[Valkyrie]

[Kirstine]

You need my OH and the Tongue Test.

Basically he trained the kids to believe that he could tell if they were lying by looking at their stuck-out tongues. The trick is to start them young enough when you can obviously tell if they are lying (see all the stories about named inscriptions, disclosing tablets etc.) and the test is curiously accurate. For years, if guilty they either refused to stick their tongues out, looked immensely guilty, or confessed. Amazingly, they still half-believe it works at the ages of 23 and 24. We have promised to tell them the secret when they have their own kids (that and Santa Claus) ...

[bluekarin]

that would be brilliant Kirstine! If only I had started them off at a young age then I'd have no problems! I may give it a go, with the line of 'I read last night on the internet how to tell, just by looking at someone's tongue, if they are lying. Just poke out your tongue . . . .' teeheehee

[Griffin]

DD says can you not fingerprint the tin to find the culprit?

That reminded me of something we did to our two eldest daughters many years ago. They were aged about three and five at the time and one of them had put baby lotion on our bedroom wall There were greasy stains and hand prints on the wall We asked them which one was guilty but neither would admit to the crime. It was obvious which one did it, the youngest one couldn't have reached up that high but they didn't know we knew that Mr Griffin worked for the police back then so he pretended to call his chums, the Scene Of Crime Officers, and they 'agreed' to come out and help trace the culprit. Faced with the prospect of prison we soon got a confession

[Egluntyne]

I still think that you have a sleepwalker.

[The Dogmother]

this thread is really keeping me entertained.

 

January is usually such a glum month that it's nice to hear summat upbeat

[Lesley]

.....and me! I keep hoping there will be a breakthrough

[C&T]

this thread is really keeping me entertained.

 

January is usually such a glum month that it's nice to hear summat upbeat

 

 

I am sorry - but I fail to understand what is entertaining or funny about missing biscuits!! The very thought makes me feel all goose bumpy and shudderry... Going to the biscuit tin to find it bare?? Nasty!!!

 

 

 

A case for Poirot if ever there was one...

[The Dogmother]