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Porn-Sniffing Dog Helped Bring Down Subway Star Jared Fogle

posted by LaminatorX on Wednesday August 26 2015, @09:48PM   Printer-friendly
from the mental-image-from-headline-far-more-salacious-than-actual-situation dept.

tt0396171 writes:

He's a bloodhound for the digital age. Much the way other dogs can pick up the scent of a fugitive or a cache of cocaine, Bear the labrador can smell the components of electronic media, even a micro-card as small as a fingernail that a suspect could easily hide.

From the article:

The 2-year-old rescue pooch nosed out a thumb drive that humans had failed to find during a search of Fogle's Indiana house in July, several weeks before he agreed to plead guilty to having X-rated images of minors and paying to have sex with teenage girls.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 27 2015, @10:40PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 27 2015, @10:40PM (#228769)

    > Do flash drives really have that unique a smell that a dog can identify it and not all the other plastic items in a house?

    1. dog's noses are incredibly discriminatory. They can smell low blood sugar, they can smell cancer inside a person before there is enough to show up on a scan.
    2. different plastics have very different fomulations and different chemicals used in the manufacturing that can leave a residue
    3. flash drives aren't just plastic, there is the circuit board, the solder and resins on the circuit board and probably a ton of other components that aren't regularly found in household plastics