Disposable Gloves Have Abundant Applications
If you are a certain type of person you probably instantly think of fingerprints as soon as somebody mentions gloves. Criminals have long known the importance of not leaving prints at the scene of a crime or on a murder weapon. It should be obvious to anyone who has ever read a detective story that disposable gloves provide the simplest and most economic solution to the finger print problem.
Law enforcement figured out some time in the late 1800s that fingerprints could be used to identify criminals. Within about five minutes, criminals started figuring out how to not leave prints with gloves such as vinyl gloves. It was a bleak day for detectives and for detective fiction.
Fortunately fiction writers and real life detectives soon incorporated hand coverings into their plotting and thinking. Not only did they start looking for gloves when no fingerprints were present. They also decided that crimes committed by a glove-wearing criminal were probably premeditated. Exceptions were considered in cold weather when everyone was trying to keep their hands warm.
In time, hand coverings themselves became evidence. When you found an expensive leather glove spattered with blood hidden in someone’s sock drawer in a West End tenement you could draw conclusions. You could conclude that the owner of the sock drawer was not stupid enough to hide evidence in his own apartment and therefore is probably being framed.
The also figured out that the Lord of the manor who owned the bloody object probably wasn’t guilty either. He is too sensible to ruin an expensive piece of goods even in a fit of passion. However his ne’er do well nephew Percy is another story.
He is the type who would help himself to his uncle’s gloves and then forget them when he is visiting his mistress, Fifi. Of course that is where Fifi’s boyfriend will find them. Fifi’s boy friend might be dumb enough to commit a crime and hide the evidence in his own sock drawer but probably not.
A lot of dead-ends and blind alleys could be avoided if criminals would just carry inexpensive, convenient disposable hand coverings. You just slip them on, commit your heinous deed and get rid of them. No worries about expensive, easily traced items that are hard to dispose of.
The next step is to dispose of them. You don’t want to throw them away where someone might find them. Probably the best place to dispose of gloves used in the commission of a crime is in your sock drawer.
Disposables can also be useful to people who have no criminal intent. They can keep germs on your hands from getting where they don’t belong. They also keep germs and other yucky things from getting on your hands. Doctors long ago discovered that disposables are more sanitary than reusable.
Disposable hand wear is also great for kitchen activities like pulling taffy. Germy fingers never touch candy. Fingers don’t get sticky and sticky fingerprints don’t get all over the walls and furniture like a particular grisly crime scene.
People who unclog drains or pick up after four footed friends or clean up crime scenes want to keep germs and chemicals off their hands. Old-fashioned work gloves either have to be cleaned or they just stay filthy. It’s much safer and pleasanter to throw away the yuck with the disposable gloves as long as you don’t dispose of them in your sock drawer. A popular type of these gloves has always been the vinyl gloves.
