Episode 45
Photo Cred: @Timotej
La Banya Beach, Korčula
Bok, prijatelji!
Welcome back to another special edition of the Let’s Learn Croatian podcast.
The boys are it again with another theater sketch.
It’s Tony D.’s birthday!
Not really, but we’re great actors and we doubt you could tell we’re just pretending.
Follow along and enjoy!
Lesson & Sketch
to open - otvoriti
door - vrata
Uncle Mike: DJ Moe, Shh! Shh! Ok?
DJ Moe: Ok! Ok! Shh! Shh!
DJ Moe: Dobro jutro!
Tony D: Huh?
Uncle Mike: Tony D! Dobro jutro!
Tony D: Tko je?
DJ Moe: Gospodin DJ Moe!
Uncle Mike: I Gospodin Uncle Mike! Otvori vrato, Tony!
Tony D: Zašto? Koliko je sati?
DJ Moe: Sad je ponoć! Ne, ne! Sad je podne!
Uncle Mike: Ne, ne! Sad je sedam sati ujutro! Otvori vrato!
Tony D: Stvarno!? Ni je me briga! Spava mi se!
DJ Moe: Tony! Otvori vrato! Imamo pokloni i tortu!
Tony D: Pokloni i tortu! Čekaj! Čekaj!
DJ Moe and Uncle Mike:
Tri, četiri, sad!
Okoš, bokoš! Perdne kokoš!
Pita Maja, koliko tebi treba jaja!
Sretan Rođendan, Tony D!
Tony D. Yippee! Yahoo! Puno hvala, prijatelji!
DJ Moe has another great SSR in store for us.
He teaches us about the great Ivan Vučetić, one of the most successful contributors to forensic science.
Have you ever heard of finger prints? Stay tuned!
Today I want to talk about Ivan Vučetić or more commonly known as Juan Vucetich. Ivan was a Crotian-Argentine anthropologist and police official who pioneered the use of Fingerprinting! Ivan was born on July 20th 1858 on Otok Hvar and he departed for Argentina in 1882 at the age of 24.
It was there in Argentina that Ivan expanded on the ideas of Sir Francis Galton, a well known Poly Math, who had began working on finger prints long before. But it wasn’t until 1891 that Ivan was able to collect and file his own database of fingerprints.
FYI the study of finger prints is known as Dermatoglyphics and using Fingerprints as a means of identification is known as Dactyloscopy.
How it works, every time you are fingerprinted your “Friction Ridges” are captured via ink to paper or into a computer system. The Friction Ridges are the wiggly lines on the tips of your fingers, toes, the palm of your hand and the soles of your feet. These Friction Ridge prints or scans are highly individual and unique to each person.
Why are they so unique? Well it has to do with the each persons Friction Ridge flexibility or pliability. When you combine these highly complex Friction Ridges (the wiggly lines) and rigidity or lack there of at the time of applying pressure while getting finger printed, you get a very distinct print that is extremely individual.
Back to Ivan.
In 1892 there was a tough case that needed help. Ivan thought he could lend a hand so he sent in one of his lead investigators to see if his finger printing methods could help crack the case. Up until this time only the Bertillon system was only employed which consisted of 5 initial measurements: head length, head breadth (measurement ear to ear), length of middle finger, length of left foot and length of cubit. Basically measuring from the tip of your thumb, around the tips of your fingers and then to your elbow. When the comparison is made between the two systems, you can see that the finger printing method is highly individualized to each person.
Long story short, the case that Ivan was hoping to help with, there was one person accusing another of something that couldn’t be disproven via the Bertillon System. It wasn’t until a finger print was found on a crucial piece of evidence that exonerated the accused and turned the whole investigation back onto the accuser themselves. That person was then found guilty, thus proving the practical use of Ivan’s finger printing techniques to help solve cases.
The Argentine police adopted the Ivans methods and police forces all over the world followed suit over time. Later on Ivan gathered more information and was able to publish a book in 1904 on the subject titled, Dactiloscopía Comparada or Comparative Dacatyloscopy, that took his methods further and with more details.
Ivan passed away at the age of 67 in 1925 and in Ivans honor the Buenos Aires police academy near La Plata was named after him, Escuela de Policía Juan Vucetich or Juan Vucetich Police Academy. There is also a Police Center for Forensics Examinations in Zagreb named after him. He also has a bust statue in his birth town on Otok Hvar.
That’s it for this weeks Super Slatko Report.
