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Aug. 12th, 2024 01:34 pmGot fingerprinted yesterday. The cop put my right hand on the machine, looked at the screen, and immediately said, "You type for a living, don't you?"
Apparently the scan-on-the-spot fingerprint scanners were calibrated using the hands of very young people- the cop claimed it was FBI 18-year-old interns- and they're prone to throwing 'this area is unreadable' errors left, right, and center when the hand of someone who has ever actually used a finger for anything for any length of time is scanned. The typing comment was because he recognized specific parallel vertical crack-like lines in my print- I'll be honest, I had thought those were a mark of aging, but apparently not- but he had to roll my fingers around quite a bit before he got a clean scan.
Apparently the scan-on-the-spot fingerprint scanners were calibrated using the hands of very young people- the cop claimed it was FBI 18-year-old interns- and they're prone to throwing 'this area is unreadable' errors left, right, and center when the hand of someone who has ever actually used a finger for anything for any length of time is scanned. The typing comment was because he recognized specific parallel vertical crack-like lines in my print- I'll be honest, I had thought those were a mark of aging, but apparently not- but he had to roll my fingers around quite a bit before he got a clean scan.
