Forwarded message:
With regards to filling in your own card, what about using a disappearing ink?? Then your prints would disappear! You could even do your name, right infront of them, and it would disappear, leaving these anynonomous prints behind!!
While the ink does become transparent/translucent I am shure the FBI chem lab won't have a problem finding traces of the chemical. This would make for jim dandy evidence in court.
Or you could make an inkpad that is damp with sodium hydroxide (lye) instead of ink. That way, you could lightly roll your fingers in it, like it was ink, and then wait a minute, and wipe it off. That way, the only skin being eaten away, would be the ridges of the fingerprints. Do this enought times, and the rigdes will end up the same height as the valleys, and will then essentially be flat.
Burglars and safecrackers sand the ridges off. Jim Choate