# Help me fight crime

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-fight-crime/91481>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [November 4, 2001, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-fight-crime/91481 "2001-11-04T22:59:26Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Anal\_Scurvy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c57346/32.png) [@Anal\_Scurvy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anal_Scurvy)\
**Post date:** [November 4, 2001, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-fight-crime/91481/1 "2001-11-04T22:59:26Z")

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Hey, is there really a formula to get someone’s height and weight by their stride and the depth of their footprint? Does anyone know what it is? And any similar formulas would be much appreciated.

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**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\
**Post date:** [November 5, 2001, 4:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-fight-crime/91481/2 "2001-11-05T04:04:14Z")

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[http://www.bc.k12.pa.us/intranet/Grades%209-12%20Math\HSMA17.doc](http://www.bc.k12.pa.us/intranet/Grades%209-12%20Math%5CHSMA17.doc)

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**Author:** ![The\_Mick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/838e76/32.png) [@The\_Mick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Mick)\
**Post date:** [November 5, 2001, 4:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-fight-crime/91481/3 "2001-11-05T04:25:52Z")

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ehh. I refer you to the old swing song, “Accentuate The Positive”. A sample:

“Sargeant Mahoney wasn’t such a sap, he’d walk right up and shoot somebody in the kneecap. ‘It makes no real difference whether guilty or not, the point is that somebody’s gotta get shot. Now my opinion as a psychiatrist is, ain’t it the truth, class dismissed’.”

My apologies, but I’ve been looking for an excuse to unload this little gem of a song.