A short scene in a recent episode of a hit TV cop show had little to do with the plot but did illustrate a safety issue that is often overlooked. Wanting to question a man about a murder, two detectives went to his workplace and found him several stories up on a scaffold painting a factory wall.Unable to get his attention, the two cops played rock-paper-scissors to see which one would get on a lift and go up to question the man. That was the first safety lesson, by the way. The attractive female cop lost the bet because she
