If you forget to clip-in your hang-gliding passenger, surely the RCMPs would also believe you forgot to load a memory card in the video camera, that is if you didn’t tell them you swallowed it.
[ul][li]"Orders told police he had swallowed the memory card of the onboard camera, " [/li][li]“X-rays confirmed the card was in Orders’ body”[/ul][/li]
http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2012/05/03/hang-glider-pilot-accused-of-swallowing-evidence-in-fatal-fall/?hpt=hp_c3
This has been in the news for a few days now here.
This morning’s news reported that the video card had been retrieved (blech!), and its contents were being investigated.
Never mind, didn’t read the OP closely enough. Defense by pica?
Well, it certainly was not an elite situation.
…but i ated it.
The Mountie always gets his, uh, well, you know . . .
What’s the big deal? Memory cards are surprisingly tasty.
The technical term for this retrieval mechanism is a dry room. :eek:
Don’t ask me how I know that. :dubious:
OK, we won’t ask you how it is that you know what a dry room is.
Instead, "Hey Dopers, why do you think Northern Piper knows what a dry room is?"
Isn’t The Dry Room the name of the big swingers club in downtown Regina?
That’s awesome advertising for the video card if they’re successful.
It was probably a Tilley.
I hope they can find something useful and not a bunch of crap.
“It’s a Crap!”
I was wondering about all the x-raying that was going on - “Well, we got the video card back, but it seems to be blank.” 
If only the video card were large enough to obstruct the dude’s GI tract, he could have become obstructed while obstructing.
X-ray should be fine. An MRI would have wiped it. I wonder if the machines are in the same room? I’m pretty sure that an MRI just standing there would be magnetically strong enough to wipe the card.
anybody know?
Nothing reveals a person’s basic nature better than watching them deal with an un-concealable, extremely unfortunate mistake.
He wasn’t quite ready to accept the “un-concealable” part until he’d acted impulsively and made yet another big, unfortunate mistake.
I could only imagine what he was going through went the initial accident happened, let alone dealing with the fallout from the second bad misjudgment, which also has the benefit of being kinda silly and embarrassing. Like someone who dies of autoerotic asphyxiation in a furry costume or something. Terrible.
I think the cops are dealing with the ‘fallout’. 
I’m just glad we will finally be able to find and dispose of Lemme Winks corpse.