Carolina Footsteps January 2019

14 LOCAL WRITERS
DOCTOR CRIME
Dr. Crime is a pseudonym for a social scientist holding a Ph.D. degree in sociology and in criminology.
He has worked in all major parts of the criminal justice system. Drop him a note at the
website www.keepkidshome.net if you or your child is in trouble, or you have custody issues, he
may be able to help, give him a call (252-339-0000).
Dear Dr. Crime: Were you joking when you said the
crime labs can pick out specific criminals by the
body odor? If you weren’t I have to say that is no decent
identification.
Skeptical
Dear Skeptical: You are off base. See the article in Science
News1 for September, 2015 on that topic. I won’t
tell you which it is, I bet you can sniff it out. Seriously,
the review of the field argues that this development will
mark profound advances in crime solutions. It argues
that microbes are the new fingerprints. For example,
pubic hair bacteria can not only identify a specific individual,
it can tell us things about at person’s lifestyle. Even
the scent of a person in the air can be used to identify a
criminal. So watch this for major scientific advances, as
well as a lot of jokes.
Dear Dr. Crime: I am not safe on line, am I? The internet
is a link crooks can use to learn about me, isn’t it?
What can I do?
NoName
Dear NoName: Yes you are open to having your emails
read and giving out where to travel on the internet. A lot
of stuff about you can be seen, perhaps more than you
Hog Killing Time
know. Try using Safeplug, a device you plug into your
internet router (PogoPlug.com/safeplug). It claims to be
able to hide your information. Also, ShazzleMail (free! At
ShazzleMail.com) hides your emails if your person to get
your message also uses it. Hushmail.com also makes
such claims. Let me know your experiences with them.
Dear Dr. Crime: How common is teen dating violence,
especially on campus?
Kick XXX Pop
Dear Pop: The Journal of the American Medical Association
Pediatrics reports that one in five (yep, 1 in 5)
girls are victims of violence, including sexual violence.
Boys are 1 in 10. I get very mad about this. See the
work done by Ed and Patricia Boelte with Darkness to
Light to combat this. A report in ASA Footnotes2 review
some major recent changes in the way we handle sexual
assault in schools, shifting it from crime alone to crime
and civil rights. It indicates that 19% of females have
experienced rape since entering college. The statistics
are but the tip of an iceberg but things are becoming
more open. The increase of 32% in the reported cases
on campus since 2011 do not indicate more assaults but
less gender inequality.
By: Jimmy Fleming
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here was a time when pretty much everyone in the
south new what hog killing time was and participated
in the process one way or another. An old timey hog killing
was a major family event that took place in late fall or
winter on every farm in the southern United States. The
entire family and most times several families would come
together to kill several hogs which would provide meat to
last most of the year. The hog killing would begin by killing
the hogs and then scalding the carcasses in hot water so
that the hair could be scraped off. The next step was to
hang the hog so any remaining hair could be singed and
the hog could be gutted. Most of the organs were utilized
in some form or fashion such as the heart, lungs, liver,
and intestines (used for sausage casings or cooked as
chitterlings).
They would then start butchering the carcasses by
removing the prime cuts such as the shoulders, hams,
ribs, loins, and chops. In the days before refrigeration
some of these cuts would be cured for later use and only
a small part of them eaten fresh. Some of the lesser cuts
and pieces would be ground to make sausage, cured and
smoked for later, or boiled down for lard and cracklings.
As a teenager and young man I had the opportunity to
help at several hog killings. What a great experience …
the smell of lard being rendered and the taste of fresh
hot cracklings. Also there would usually be a huge meal
prepared using some of the fresh pork along with sweet
potatoes, collards, and corn bread. I remember my grand
mother corning hogs heads, cooking pig tails, making
souse, and using lard to make biscuits. The hog was a
very important animal on the farm and supplied many
useful products. As the old folks used to say “They used
everything off the hog except the squeal!”
January 2019