Create a Crime Scene by susy derkins
February 12th, 2008 1:19 AM / Location: 18.977138,-99.24567
Oh, I need to get supplies. I used to have a decent piece of "Caution/Do NOT enter" plastic tape that I salvaged from a parking lot that was being remodeled, but it seems that it was stolen from my trunk the same day they stole my car battery. Oh, well, I need to go salvage some more. And I need to get a white plastic sheet to cut a stencil of the body outline, and the DANGER tape, and food coloring (red, of course), and the ice cream scoop that broke down, and yes, of course, my fantastic orange telescopic traffic cones. Night tasking, with day public documentation? Or early morning fast tasking? I got a fantastic place for documentation, I think. But what the scene is going to be? Violent death. Bizarre violent death. Death by ice cream scoop!! Romeo and Juliet clubbed with an ice cream scoop? Cheesy...
No, let´s do something that critiques the modern world, the rat race and so on. Then not clubbed with the ice-cream scoop: holding on dearly to the ice cream scoop, as a symbol of joy and playfulness. But I really want to put blood. Make blood pretty, how? Maybe an electronic gadget there. The old cell phone? Mmm.
Crime scene overkill, c´mon, just get out and do it!
Enough of cozy domesticity: time for some hardcore night tasking! (Well, softcore, because I did this when coming back from the grocery store, already in my pajamas. But my pajamas are ninja-black, so there!).
I grabbed a bag containing chalk, a baby-food jar filled with artificial blood (corn syrup + red food coloring + instant coffee), a blood splattered-CD, the camera and Macario, the dummy.
Macario was crucial for the chalk outline.
Watch here Macario in training, when we were thinking of doing a "fall from a tall building in mysterious circumstances- crime scene":
So, we ran to the store, Macario and me, before it closed, and got those urgent paper napkins and zip-lock bags. And on the way back found the perfect spot, payphone and all.
This is how a bunch of people will see it tomorrow morning.
The payphone is outside a Spanish school for gringos, so hopefully the crime-scene would work as advertising.
Macario jumps or gets pushed from the balcony
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The idea was to get realistic fall positions to outline. Well, OK, but it was fun...
Perfect payphone
The half-empty coke was there already. Just unhooking the receiver has an instant crime-scene effect. And I placed the bloody CD. Notice that the crime scene is still being processed: the evidence hasn´t been put neatly away in baggies yet.
Evidence still in place
I think this would be Exhibit A. It says "The Killers" and "Hot Fuss". And you were to play it, it would sound weird, a hollow effect. Enough to kill over it, maybe?
Macario in position
The dead guy is trying to crawl (back?) to the phone, it seems.
First attempt at outline
Not great. You can´t even tell if the subject was on the prone or the supine position.
Just add some blood
Yeah, a baby-food jar cannot carry quite enough. Or maybe the guy didn´t bleed to death. Or he was killed for evil medical purposes and the rest of his blood was collected in several of those bags with tubes and taken away.
Shaky hand
The cameraman of the CSI unit is new, so cut him some slack, would you?
Not that people was going to get scared or anything...
As an afterthought I went back and wrote SFO´s web address. So by seeing it everyone will know is some sort of a game. Plus, morbid curiosity might bring someone over. Who knows, maybe by tomorrow the blood will be completely covered in ants, entomologically upgrading the crime scene into a higher level.
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Well, I actually went back one more time and wrote http://sf0.org/dragonscales/ on the floor with spray paint, and placed a bunch of GY maps and pictures on the phone booth. I think smearing the sidewalk with fake blood is particularly frown upon by the Interpol...
In any case, the international authorities washed the whole thing already, ants or no ants. And is only 9 am. Blimey.
Oh, and I wrote http://sf0.org/JJason/ on the CD...
Way to throw the bulls off your scent, Ms. Derkins.
If I'm lucky then they'll think that I was the one who was murdered, which will allow me to safely disappear into the night.
As an afterthought I went back and wrote SFO´s web address. So by seeing it everyone will know is some sort of a game. Plus, morbid curiosity might bring someone over. Who knows, maybe by tomorrow the blood will be completely covered in ants, entomologically upgrading the crime scene into a higher level.
Or maybe we'll all get arrested!