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Lodge a Report When Friend Borrow Your Car

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You will never know what will happen to your car

Lodge a report when friend borrows your car. Yup, lodge a police report when you give your car key to your friend for borrowing your car.

This might be sound crazy.

Most of people including my friends shocked when I advised this to them. They seemly heard that I accused their friend for stealing their cars but I did not say that. I did not used word steal, rob or other words that have similar meaning. I said for borrowing.

This morning, when I sent my fiancée, I heard a radio DJ gives the same advice to his audience who lent his car to his friend for two days. But after more than a week his friend still did not return it back.

The same reaction gives by the audience. The audience said he manage to contact his friend and the borrower want few days more before he can return it. But yet, the Radio DJ still advice him to lodge a police report and that is a good advice.

The question is why? Why should anyone lodge a police report for lent his or her car to their friends?

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Medical Man’s Observation

Dr House’s popular quote – Everybody Lies

The Crime Circle team agreed Sherlock Holmes most important skills was observation. On the first time he met Dr Watson, he had shows his talent by guessing Watson had went to Afghanistan.

And he is right.

But the mystery is how he masters it. Does it just Sir Arthur Conan Doyle imagination or this can be practice in reality.
The team had looking for the answer for weeks and here is one of the answers.

Several years before Sir Arthur Conan Doyle come out with Sherlock Holmes in 1887, the 1873 edition of A Manual of Medical Jurisprudence mention this:

“The first duty of a medical jurist is to cultivate a faculty of minute observation…
A medical man, when he sees a dead body, should notice everything. He should observe everything which could throw a light on the production of wounds or other injuries found upon it. It should not be left to a policeman to say whether there were any marks of blood on the dress or on the hands of the deceased, or on the furniture of the room. The dress of the deceased as well as the body should always be closely examined on the spot by the medical man.”

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Past, Present and Future through Words

Robert T. Kiyosaki and Donald J. Trump

When we begin to discuss over this topic, we had arguments. Some of the questions was does this topic relevant in the Crime Circle?

This argument occurred not because of the information do not useful but the source of the information. This skill was not teach by an investigator but by someone who popular in the business world.

Robert T. Kiyosaki in his book, ‘Guide to Investing: What the Rich in, That the Poor and Middle Class Do Not!’ mention this:

“…see people’s past, present and future by listening to their words…”

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Sherlock Holmes and Dr Gregory House

Holmes and House

To those who love Sherlock Holmes might have become fan to the Dr Gregory House since House is the clone. Or some of you might become fan to the actor, Hugh Laurie.

Or you might like the other 75 other actors who had played Sherlock Holmes in 211 films. This consistency had brought Sherlock Holmes name into the Guinness World Records as the most portrayed movie character.

But what we want to discuss today is not about the films or the world record. The Crime Circle team only wants to talk about one character, Dr House.

We interested in how he managed to adapt Holmes skills and practice it in the medical world. His observation skill had helped him handle the simple cases and given him time to concentrate in more challenge cases.

Imagine if you can adapt it in your professional world. How good you could be?

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Why Sherlock Holmes?

Sherlock Holmes debut in the 'A Study in Scarlet'

Everybody knows that Sherlock Holmes is just a Sir Arthur Conan Doyle character, an infamous detective character that live until today in the books, movies and people’s fantasies.

He was born in 1887 at the state of Beeton’s Christmas Annual in the district of ‘A Study in Scarlet.’ He was claimed to be the first forensic scientist by some of his fans.

Despite there are a lot of discussion over that claim including in this blog, Crime Circle could not deny the fact that the character and its story had given huge contribution  in developing crime detection skills.

Among the skills and crime detection method applied by him in his story was serology (scientific study of blood serum and other bodily fluids), fingerprinting, firearm identification, and questioned document-examination.

But Crime Circle believed the most important skill he had was observation. With this skill, he can make a really good guest, he can identify people surround him and he can detect danger.

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Does Sherlock Holmes the first’s Forensic Scientiest or Criminalist?

Writing about Sherlock Holmes in the Crime Circle just after launching of the blog had brought me to realise, there are a lot of people affected by the genius of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s masterpiece.

There are people who wish to be like Holmes since their childhood including me. Therefore, I launch this special project which I called Behind Sherlock Holmes.

What I dig in this project is not how to copycat his style because it easy and his detective kit can be buying at the Amazon.com. What I looking for is studying his skill and the impact to the real world.

Before me going further, I love to find answer to this question: “Does Sherlock Holmes the first’s forensic scientist or criminalist?”

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Who is Dr James A. Brussel?

To those who lived in New York City around 1940s until 1960s, might knew Dr James A Brussel and might be very grateful to him for what he did.

Some of them might owed their life to him as he was the one who responsible to caught the Mad Bombers, person who put more than 30 bombs around the city within those years. He is the one who put the nightmare to the end.

But Crime Circle believed most of them could not pass the story to the young generation because they already passed away or forgot about the incident. So this article will tell briefly about Dr James A. Brussel.

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The Sherlock Holmes of the Couch

Dr James A Brussel

He only did helping the police. He solved one case that haunting the police for 16 years. He used his skills to identify the culprits and he guessed correctly.

He managed to identify the Mad Bomber’s character despite both of them never met before. Amazingly, he also managed to guess on the cloths that Mad Bomber will wear when he was caught.

He is Dr James A Brussel. His achievement had brought his name on the newspaper’s front page and he was called The Sherlock Holmes of the Couch.

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Does the Real Sherlock Holmes Solved Eugene Marie Chantrelle’s Case?

Eugene Marie Chantrelle was the first person to be hanged in Edinburgh’s Calton Jail on 31st May 1878. He was convicted murder his wife by poisoning.

But the main question and keep being discussed until today is who solved the case? Does the Real Sherlock Holmes, Dr Joseph Bell involved in the investigation?

Dr Joseph Bell’s name, which was said to be the model for Sherlock Holmes, did not appear in the official document of the Chantrelle case but the killer’s statement at the end of his life had brought the possibility.

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Sherlock Holmes Canon

Sherlock Holmes had appeared in 4 novels and 56 short stories under Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Here is the list for your reference.

Novels:

  1. A Study in Scarlet
  2. The Sign of Four
  3. The Hound of Baskersvilles
  4. The Valley of Fear

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