Better Than Bread Crumbs? (following a crook)

[Dibbons]

Available on Youtube, Broderick Crawford plays a cop in the 1951 film "The Mob". Very interesting at minute 1:02:00 the cops install a unit that drips fluorescent paint from the vehicle they want to follow (to be read by an ultraviolet lamp). Movie also debuts Charles Bronson in a very minor part (see him at minute 23:41). Ernest Borgnine also makes an appearance.

From Wiki:
"To trace the mob car, they use a fluorescent dye that drips on the road, so the police can spot where they are going, yet they have the car wired for sound."

 

[BeatersRus]

myself and some of my friends were sitting around talking about all these looters getting away scotfree...
perhaps the cops should be shooting them with paintball guns with permanent ink.....
be kinda hard to claim you didnt do it if you are covered in ink........
and its non lethal soooo yeah.

 

[Dibbons]

Either that or sulfuric acid.