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Nobody forced Alan Emmins to clean up a crime scene. The British journalist had never written about crime and had no experience with anything involving blood. But there was something about Neal Smithers, owner of San Francisco-based Crime Scene Cleaners, that made Emmins want to find out what he was missing. His book Mop Men: Inside the World of Crime Scene Cleaners follows Smithers - who started his company after watching Pulp Fiction - from a double murder to a slit-wrist suicide, and all the gruesome, partially decomposed scenes in-between...
What was it like when you saw your first crime scene? The first one I went into was in a motel bathroom. It was a suicide. There was a lot of blood. I was surprised that it wasn't actually that bad, because I'd seen bloody walls and bloody bathrooms on television. It was so impersonal I couldn't relate it to anything...
...does she feel about living with him? She's pretty supportive of my career. Anything I go for she goes for. We've been married 26 years and have a really happy zoological house, so she's on board with the whole scene...
...secure the streets. Iraqi authorities put the country in virtual lockdown, sealing the borders, closing the airports and banning all but essential traffic in downtown areas. Thousands of Iraqi army soldiers and police officers stood watch as voters headed to the polls. American military patrols were also on the scene in Baghdad, but U.S. forces largely stayed in the background...
There is a scene in the film classic Casablanca when Captain Renault, the head of the local police, finds out that there is gambling going on in the cafe owned by Humphrey Bogart's character. Renault's reaction was to say that "I'm shocked, shocked to find that gambling is going on in here!" Of course, Renault knew about the activity and was taking a few dollars on the side...