A BLOODHOUND, A BLOODHOUND: MY KINGDOM FOR A BLOODHOUND !!

In all of the post-manhunt celebration for the Boston marathon bombers capture--dead or alive (one of each), there have been few complaints heard about a card the authorities probably had in hand but for some reason, or due to some logistical circumstance--they didn’t play it.




I’m talking about a BLOODHOUND !!! Why didn’t the FBI, the Boston police, or somebody--anybody bring one of these dogs to the scene of suspect #2’s disappearance near where he abandoned his stolen car. Let the dog sniff around at the fresh blood there and watch him take you without fail to where the suspect was hiding.



I’m no expert, but it seems like a no-brainer. Use dog, and suspect is virtually a guaranteed capture in less than an hour. Or don’t use dog , and see what you got--an entire metropolitan area shut down all day Friday and into the night.



So why hasn’t the mainstream media even touched on this subject? Conspiracy theorists might say it was for the tv ratings. People around the nation, maybe even the world, were glued to their tv sets (if not on the Internet) for hours at a time while the manhunt was active. It was as mesmerizing as O.J. Simpson’s Bronco chase !!



Nobody wanted a little old sniffling dog to come in and steal the limelight. That’s old-fashioned homeland security, not the kind of high tech equipment that’s going to make the big bucks for the 21st century military industrial complex



For an idea of just how effective these dogs are check out this website: MythBusters Episode 148: Hair of the Dog. Link to: mythbustersresults.com/hair-of-the-day..



Even if you decide to send a dog out there with a couple of fully-armored handlers, and a dozen or so of your best shooters wearing night vision goggles, you can still do a neighborhood check at more or less the same time. There was no shortage of law enforcement personnel at the sight. And, like with walking and chewing gum, one activity need not interfere with the other.

BOSTON MARATHON HUNT: NO SHORTCUTS ALLOWED

The authorities tonight finally captured suspect #2 in the Boston Marathon Bombings. They credited a tip from the Franklin Street resident and owner of the boat on the property where the suspect had holed-up nursing his wounds. This man had seen the blood at the boat site and reportedly saw the stowaway suspect there, too. It isn’t clear whether the suspect saw him back, and if so, why he didn’t flee at once. Perhaps he was too weak from blood loss.



The cops already were pretty sure they had drawn blood at the scene of a shootout the night before less than a mile away. There was a spattering of blood at the location where the suspect had abandoned his stolen car after driving it away from that shootout. So it’s pretty likely there was a trail of blood that could have been used to track the suspect overnight. A trained bloodhound could have easily followed that blood to wherever the suspect had gone.



But rather than employ a dog to do what they do so well, the authorities went about the time-consuming chore of going door-to-door within a specific radius which, as it turned out, wasn’t quite long enough to ensnare the suspect. The dog would have trailed the suspect afoot even until the last drop of blood fell from his body, if necessary.



If the suspect had been able to stanch the outpouring of blood sufficiently to create a gap in the path, by afternoon the authorities should have been able to present the dog with an overall scent profile--like a dirty sock or undershirt--of the suspect since by then they’d accessed his apartment.  Or the dog could have just gone on body scent that accompanied the blood--and/or from the car.