Cheese it- the cops!

[oldbrownhat]

Feeling blue: drug dealer’s ‘love of stilton’ leads to his arrest

A drug dealer’s “love of stilton” has been credited for his downfall after police were able to identify him from a photo of his hands holding a block of cheese.

Carl Stewart, 39, was identified after he shared the photo on the encrypted messaging service EncroChat, from which police were able to analyse his fingerprints...

(In a previous case) ...Forensics officers enhanced the image, which allowed a fingerprint specialist to identify Taylor from the ridges in his hands....

 

[Rustyt1953]

Love me some stilton.

 

[LDM]

Obviously, he was substituting cheese for brains. Shows you how stupid these miscreants are when they go on some social media platform to brag about their crimes.

 

[oldbrownhat]

Love me some stilton.

Agreed - although my doctor might not. Stilton, Cambozola, Morbier, Gorgonzola, Shropshire blue..... "Be still, my beating heart!" (Enough cheese can have that effect.)

Mr Stewart made a bad choice of career, but I can't quibble with his taste in cheese.

 

[Muss Muggins]

Definitely a solid choice for cheese . . .

 

[Jack Flash]

When they take his mug shot, will they ask him to say "cheese"?

 

[625-7]

Been on a smoked gouda and smoked chedder binge lately. Heeeeeeey wait a minute, this kinda sounds familiar? Cheese, not this cheese bit again!

 

[Walter Rego]

Cheese it-the cops ! is a funny old expression. I was watching the TV series House one time and Dr. House uttered that phrase and I cracked up. I think I was the only one in the room that had heard it before.

I found a couple references to its origin:

"It was originally British slang of the early nineteenth century, but was later taken to the US — it turns up, for example, in a story in O Henry’s The Voice of the City, published in 1908....It’s also in The Inimitable Jeeves by P G Wodehouse, published in 1923....The first example occurs in James Hardy Vaux’s A New and Comprehensive Vocabulary of the Flash Language of 1812. ....flash language was the cant or slang of criminals.

"Vaux said that cheese it meant to keep quiet or to stop, desist or leave off doing something.

"Unfortunately, we don’t have such a simple explanation for cheese it. It might have been a version of cease. Jonathon Green, in the Cassell Dictionary of Slang, also points to an old proverb, after cheese comes nothing, which refers to cheese being the last item in a meal. This sounds more than a little literary and stretched, but perhaps the proverb was well enough known then that it made sense just to say 'cheese!'”

and:

Derived from the jive talk word from the 50's era. First said in the movie West Side Story.
"Cheese it fellas, it's the fuzz"

 

[CH4]

When they take his mug shot, will they ask him to say "cheese"?

In this case he could probably invoke the 5th

 

[Rustyt1953]

Derived from the jive talk word from the 50's era. First said in the movie West Side Story.
"Cheese it fellas, it's the fuzz"

Fortunately for me I speak Jive.

 

[jaguargolf]

I remember hearing it on the Saturday morning kid shows, and I remember hearing it from my friends. (Before the days of " Five- Oh ")

I tell my kids I was chased from the age of 6 to 18 when I went in the service. People and cops in NYC did not want kids around on the street anywhere doing anything. Weren't even allowed to sit on a bench outside a basketball court to watch a game.

And 20% of the guys in the crowd became NYPD !

Young kid said it all when I suggested FDNY " *%#@ That. I want a gun. I want to be able to park wherever the *&%# I want."

 

[BC38]

How high resolution does a picture have to be in order to be able to reliably identify someone's finger prints?

That sounds fishy to me.

 

[steelslaver]

The photo shows his actual hand palm up and with modern phones and cameras I have no doubt the resolution could be good enough to zero in on his finger tips and see his prints

 

[HOUSTON RICK]

Who would have thought that things could be identified from pictures of all things? I have been known to be sarcastic.

 

[oldbrownhat]

Cheese it-the cops ! is a funny old expression. I was watching the TV series House one time and Dr. House uttered that phrase and I cracked up. I think I was the only one in the room that had heard it before....

Thanks for the in-depth history I have no idea where I first heard it; it's just been in the back room of my accumulated vocabulary since forever. I did briefly look it up before posting, though, just to be sure I wasn't making it up.

 

[Stevens]

Rats love of cheese often gets them in big trouble!
Steve W

 

[meaneyedcatz]

Was his accomplice a mr Wensleydale? He has the finest cheese shop in the district.

 

[Rustyt1953]

 

[oldbrownhat]

LOL. You can certainly become poverty-stricken by buying cheese.

Hmmm... Wensleydale.... Here's an article by The Skeptical Cardiologist: In Defence of Real Cheese.

Of the thousands of delightful varieties, let us consider Wensleydale, the 33rd type of cheese requested by John Cleese of Ye Olde Cheese Emporium proprietor, Henry Wensleydale (Purveyor of Fine Cheese to the Gentry and the Poverty Stricken Too) in the Monty Python sketch, Cheese Shop.

The cheese I have in front of me from Wensleydale creamery (which owes its continued existence to being the favorite cheese of Wallace (of Wallace and Gromit fame)...

...For the last 40 years, Americans have been mistakenly advised that all saturated fat in the food is bad and contributes to heart disease. Since cheese contains such a high proportion of saturated fat, it has also been targeted. Dietary recommendations suggest limiting real cheese consumption and switching to low-fat cheese.

This concept is not supported by any recent analysis of data..

I think I like this guy!

 

[Rustyt1953]

 

[Old 44 Guy]

Couldn't happen to a nicer cheesy guy.