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When police came to investigate the robbery, officers found a leech near the safe, and the resulting DNA sample was recorded in the Tasmania Police DNA offender database.
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[Insert backstabbing lawyer joke here.]
Is the leech okay?
And I would have gotten away with it too, if it hadn't been for you meddling leeches!
Wait...WHAT? I'm just trying to wrap my mind around the thought of a leech-covered man kneeling next to a safe, working his fingersmith art while Katherine Hepburn stands to one side saying "I never dreamed that any mere physical experience could be so STIMulating!"
I got to put leeches on a patient's face once. Nobody else would get near them.
"Yeah, I got turned in by some slimy no-good low-life bloodsucker ... what? No, not one of my partners this time."
Does the Australian constitution give you the right to challenge your accuser in court, because I would totally put that leech up on the stand and ask him where he got my blood from? Then insinuate that he was trying to frame me for a crime HE committed.
what else is in the teaches of leeches? huh? what?
That's a really pretty leech, as far as leeches go.
Is Tasmian really the descriptor for people from Tasmania?
ill lich, I know you kidding, but its a criminal case, so the accuser is the government. The leech, unfortunately for him, merely evidence and probably now an ex-leech (insert Monty Python joke here)
No, it's "Tasmanian", funnily enough.
I think Tasmaniac would be far cooler.
For people in the know, the term is Taswegian. If you are from the state's capital city of Hobart you are a Hobartian.
"Tasmian" is not correct at all. To most Australians it's "Tasmanian". Isn't "Taswegian" only used by a few of the locals?
Welcome to the newest show in the franchise:
Law & Order: Special Leech Unit
That's a Chinese leech according to the photo. I guess the thief would have gotten away with it if he hadn't used a cheap Chinese leech to suck his blood.
Tasmania was originally called Van Diemen’s Land, which is so much cooler.
I prefer Van Diemen Lander, in reference to Cormac McCarthy’s ‘Blood Meridian’.
On a similar not, Melbourne for at least a short period of time was known as Batmania after Sir Henry Batman.
God I wish that'd stuck, then I could catch the train to Batman Station, Batmania. TOO COOL.
Also yes Tasmian is certainly incorrect. The correct term would be Tasmanian.
I'll correct myself before anyone else does.
The Batmania part is true, but it's John Batman not Sir Henry Batman (not sure where I pulled that from). John also happened to settle in Van Diemen Land for a number of years before sailing to Victoria and becoming one of the first founders of Melbourne.
Or even CSI: Tasmania.