Posted on 10/16/2001 2:07:36 PM PDT by TheOtherOne
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| The FBI released this photo on October 16, 2001 showing the letters that were sent to NBC in New York and to Sen. Tom Daschle's office on Capitol Hill and were found to contain the anthrax bacteria. Anthrax was confirmed in the letter opened on October 15 in Daschle's office, but so far none of the staff in that office has tested positive for exposure to the potentially deadly bacteria, Capitol police said. REUTERS/HO/Fbi |
Other things you may wonder about:
- Is the writer trying to conceal his handwriting with this block stuff?
- Is the writer more used to write something else, like in Arabic?
A Yankee fan, no doubt...fiends, all of them...
I dont' agree. I sometimes make my ones like that because I make my I's without the serifs (bars at the top and bottom) and I need to distinguish between the two. Also, the handwriting looks to me like someone trying to disguise their normal handwriting. It is too big, which to me indicates a lack of education.
Or an elderly person whose vision isn't as sharp as it used to be.
Or somebody that's left-handed. Without guide lines, right-handers tend to wander upward, while left-handers wander downward: it has to do with the arc of the elbow. Try it yourself. Since left-handers are a minority, that might be a significant clue.
A European one (actually, in my experience mostly Germans do it) look more like an un-crossed cursive "t".
To be honest, I make my ones like that for "formal" numbers -- something I picked up after taking technical drawing in college, and it carried through on my homework, and then to other things. It's habit now -- I never even think about it.
It actually suggests that the person who wrote these had some sort of technical education -- the reason I ended up making "formal" numbers was that during mathematical derivations, my 1s looked like ls and so on, which caused all sorts of difficulties. It was necessary to make them obviously different.
And if this is "home-grown" anthrax, you'd expect the perpetrator to have a technical background.
As for the slanting address -- who wants to bet the guy was writing with his opposite hand?
You are correct, of course.
As with the 1s, I make closed 4s, to differentiate them from Ys.
We (draftsmen) write in all caps, all the time. Frequently draftsmen develope the habit of enlarging letters that would normally be capatilized, just as this perp has.
After spending a coupla years, 8 hours a day printing in this manner, your normal handwriting changes to reflect your "work" handwriting.
That being said, this explanation indicates the perp would be in at least his 30's, as draftmen no longer handwrite ANYTHING, they type it into the keyboard, except for some of us old farts in the business, that learned it before computers came along.
P.S. if your FBI and reading this, I haven't been in New Jersey for at least two decades, and I don't even know anyone there...IT WASN'T ME.
Also notice they used zip + 4 on the congressional envelope.
That was my thought because my friends from Europe always address things in all caps, and in "block style" when they send me things.
Most likely got the address from Daschle's web page.
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