A copy of Forensics for Dummies was found in the home of one of the men accused of the Hatton Garden heist. It’s not the first time the For Dummies books hold made the news …Is it funny that when police searched the home of one of the men accused of the Hatton Garden heist,they found a copy of the book Forensics for Dummies? This article answers that question and more! Read on to become an expert on Dummies!On one hand, this news is funny. Maybe any fool could pull off a heist just by dipping into a title billed as “a must for fans of CSI or Patricia Cornwell”. One minute you could be sitting there watching CSI reruns, and the next boring a gap through a 50cm (20in) wall. On the other hand,it’s inaccurate to profit from or laugh at crime. So while you might expect the people behind the “For Dummies” books to hold allowed themselves a small chuckle at the news, at the inadvertent way this discovery markets the books’ power to educate and inspire, and in fact they haven’t laughed at all. “I wouldnt say it’s a chuckle because it’s a pretty serious news subject,” says Raichelle Weller, the books’ associate marketing director in the UK. “whether people choose to inform themselves, and that’s their choice. We publish for a wide demographic.” (By “wide demographic”,she means “lots of different people”.)Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com