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People have been cleaning their ears with cotton swabs for years. What other tools are being inadvertently used wrong? (feddit.nl)

submitted 1 year ago by ediculous@feddit.nl to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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[–] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 167 points 1 year ago (3 children)

For years there was the "Phantom", a notorious criminal, haunting all of Europe. DNA testing revealed that it was a female and her crimes ranging from petty theft to murder were seemingly unrelated to each other. That each of them were done in different countries didn't make solving the case any easier.

But eventually they did solve it. They found the woman working in a cotton swab factory. Turned out many police departments were using the wrong type of swabs. So there seem to be more than one way to incorrectly use cotton swabs.

[–] hallettj 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I was curious if this was real, and it is! http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7966641.stm

[–] makingStuffForFun@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

Case file do an episode on it. Well, she appears in an episode in chasing that killer

[–] stolid_agnostic@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 year ago

Now that's some serious incompetence there, and it's sad that it took so many cases to figure it out.

[–] Songar87@eviltoast.org 3 points 1 year ago

That makes me think the based an episode of CSI:NY after this. An almost identical plot.